Engendering Archeology at the Grandad Site: An Attempt to Differentiate Women’s and Men’s Space Based on Archeological Data

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The Grandad site is located in the Sierra Foothills of California. CSU-Fresno has conducted a field school there for over 25 years. Since 2006 we have focused on two areas, a Chief's House (male area) and a Chaw'se or BRM (female area). One of the recent theoretical approaches in archeology has been Engendering Archeology. Having taught this theory in my Method and Theory class, I felt this might be a wonderful opportunity to attempt to demonstrate it to my students. Based on the assemblages from these different areas of the site, could we differentiate a "male area" from a "female area." During the last field season, I finally got a large enough sample size to see some intriguing differences. This poster presents the results of this research.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 90th Annual Meeting, Denver, CO (2025)   •
• SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts

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Abstract Id(s): 52432