Gender Archive

3,000-Year-Old Stela Challenges Assumptions Of Gender And Social Roles In Prehistoric Times

AncientPages.com | November 16, 2023

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - For a team of archaeologists digging in southwest Spain, the discovery of a Bronze/Iron Age stela—a funerary stone slab with carvings depicting an

These Burials Could Challenge Historians' Ideas About Anglo-Saxon Gender

These Curious Burials Could Challenge Historians’ Ideas About Anglo-Saxon Gender

AncientPages.com | October 3, 2023

AncientPages.com - There are a significant number of Anglo-Saxon burials where the estimated anatomical sex of the skeleton does not align with the gender implied by the items they were

Archaeology

Elusive Non-Binary Gender In Prehistoric Europe – A Forgotten Minority

AncientPages.com | May 26, 2023

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - People tend to think that the idea that biological sex is linked with one's role in society belongs in the past. But was

Archaeology

Male-Female Roles 7,000 Years Ago Were Less Traditional Than Previously Thought – New Study Reveals

AncientPages.com | June 30, 2022

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - New archaeological research into grave goods and skeletal material from the oldest grave field in the Netherlands shows that male-female roles 7,000 years

Archaeology

Cooking Gear Found In Graves Of Viking Men And Women

AncientPages.com | June 27, 2019

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A new study conducted by Marianne Moen of the University of Oslo shows that gender roles during Viking times were not nearly as