Gender in Archaeology over the Last 30+ Years

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marieka Brouwer Burg. Rachel Horowitz.

This is an abstract from the "Gender in Archaeology over the Last 30+ Years" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. While more women than men are getting PhDs in archaeology today, female lithicists continue to be outnumbered by their male counterparts. This is in part a result of outdated gendered conceptions about who can do certain types of archaeological field and laboratory work, and also related to deeply seated, western notions of male versus...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jane Peterson.

This is an abstract from the "Gender in Archaeology over the Last 30+ Years" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the early 1990s when I began my explorations of changing divisions of labor associated with agricultural transitions in the Levant, archaeology was grappling with the tip of the biocultural iceberg that was “gender” (sensu Fausto-Sterling 2000). During the intervening three decades, discussions of gender in archaeology have broadened....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeanne Gillespie. Cherra Wyllie.

This is an abstract from the "Gender in Archaeology over the Last 30+ Years" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since the landmark 1986 “Blood of Kings,” kingship has been a central theme in the archaeology, iconography, and epigraphy of the ancient Americas. Despite recent discoveries, the topic of women rulers remains ancillary to the larger view of male-dominated social and political power. During the past 30 years, roles of women have been...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Caroline Donovan. Jennifer Kahn.

This is an abstract from the "Gender in Archaeology over the Last 30+ Years" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. My research examines ongoing issues of gender disparity in male-dominated academic professions like archaeology. Here, I investigate the link between gender and publishing of archaeological research in Oceania amongst a broad cross-section of archaeologists. Similar research conducted on North American archaeologists has found significant...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kirsten Vacca. COSWA Committee Members .

This is an abstract from the "Gender in Archaeology over the Last 30+ Years" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Committee on the Status of Women in Archaeology (COSWA) was formed to “understand the current status of women in the profession through the gathering of data and to improve the position of women in archaeology” (SAA.org). Influences from gender and feminist theory over the years have informed the work COSWA does to address barriers faced...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Van Alst.

This is an abstract from the "Gender in Archaeology over the Last 30+ Years" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The study of gender within the archaeological discipline has been a cornerstone of archaeological theory since the late 1980s. Though the study of gender has been foundational in changing our understanding of past peoples, there has been a severe lack of consideration of Indigenous women’s knowledge as well as Indigenous feminist...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Karen Bell.

This is an abstract from the "Gender in Archaeology over the Last 30+ Years" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper builds on the author’s earlier research that documents previously unrecognized female rulers among the Aztec. Over the last 50 years, interest in elite women in other areas of Mesoamerica has grown, and the author presents the outcome of some of that research. Woman rulers from not only the Aztec area but also from the Valley of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anabel Ford.

This is an abstract from the "Gender in Archaeology over the Last 30+ Years" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. It was the writing and award of NSF Women in Science grant that brought to the fore for me the issues of women in archaeology. Motivated to build on my associations, I sought speakers in archaeology that could represent the world of possibilities. In that search, I was able to meet many women in the field and learn of existing informal...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Hoag.

This is an abstract from the "Gender in Archaeology over the Last 30+ Years" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. While much has been written recently highlighting pioneering women’s contributions to archaeology, there has not been a systematic study of their roles as mothers and how they navigated their personal lives in a male-dominated field. In this paper I contextualize the role of motherhood in archaeology from an historical perspective,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kristin Dew-Meeuwen.

This is an abstract from the "Gender in Archaeology over the Last 30+ Years" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This presentation will deconstruct American archaeology's past to understand modern socio-politics of gender distributions within the discipline and how these proportions shape archaeological theory, practice, and authority. By connecting the foundations of American archaeology with what they coin the "boys club of archaeological knowledge...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carito Tavera-Medina.

This is an abstract from the "Gender in Archaeology over the Last 30+ Years" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. ¿Ha sido el estudio del género un campo de estudio sistemático dentro de la arqueología peruana? ¿Cuáles han sido los enfoques teóricos y metodológicos empleados? Y ¿qué tipos de contexto arqueológico se han empleado para dichos estudios? Por medio de la siguiente ponencia planteamos hacer un recorrido analítico sobre cómo ha sido abordado...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Amy Clark. Danielle Macdonald.

This is an abstract from the "Gender in Archaeology over the Last 30+ Years" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The number of women in Paleolithic archaeology has increased over the last 30 years, following the trend in the field in general. In the United States and Canada, the number of men and women in tenure track positions is nearly equivalent, yet this equality masks considerable imbalance when considering the seniority of these professors. Male...