Invisible People and Processes

Introduction: on the incompleteness of archaeological narratives. Section 1 Theory and review: ambivalent bodies: gender and medieval archaeology; a viable past in a pictorial present? the power of gender archaeology; re-engendering gender: some theoretical and methodological concerns on a burgeoning archaeological pursuit; hearth and home: the timing of maintenance activities; at home in the long Iron Age: a dialogue between households and individuals in cultural reproduction; commentary. Section 2 Writing gender: skin scrapers and pottery makers? 'invisible' women in prehistory; body imagery in the Aegean Neolithic: ideological implications of anthropomorphic figurines; engendering domination: a structural and contextual analysis of Minoan Neopalotial bronze figurines; changing gender relations in the later prehistory of eastern Hungary; death becomes her: the Athenian funeral revisited; female into male won't go: gender and early christian ascetism; housewives, warriors and slaves? gender in Anglo-Saxon burials; commentary. Section 3 Writing children and childhood: invisibility as a symptom of gender categories in archaeology; engendering children, engendering archaeology; kid Knapping: the missing children in lithic analysis; women and children in prehistory: resources sharing and social stratification at the mesolithic-neolithic transition in the Ukraine; age, gender and biological reality in the early Bronze Age cemetery at Mokrin; commentary. Conclusion: the visibility of the invisible.