An authoritative guide on gender prehistory for researchers,instructors and students in anthropology, archaeology, and genderstudies
* Provides the most up-to-date, comprehensive coverage of genderarchaeology, with an exclusive focus on prehistory
* Offers critical overviews of developments in thearchaeology of gender over the last 30 years, as well asassessments of current trends and prospects for futureresearch
* Focuses on recent Third Wave approaches to the study of genderin early human societies, challenging heterosexist biases,and investigating the interfaces between gender and status, age, cognition, social memory, performativity, thebody, and sexuality
* Features numerous regional and thematic topics authored byestablished specialists in the field, with incisivecoverage of gender research in prehistoric and protohistoriccultures of Africa, Asia, Europe, the Americas and the Pacific