Description
Can archaeology reveal inequalities between women and men? Have the social roles assigned to each group changed over time? For the past fifty years or so, archaeologists have been working to catalogue and interpret material evidence, drawn mainly from funerary contexts, in order to distinguish between male and female. Like other indicators – age, social status, health, etc. – the study of gender differentiation has become essential to understanding past societies. Whilst it remains difficult to provide definitive answers for the distant periods of human history, certain hypotheses are being confirmed by the artefacts discovered: all the evidence suggests that a gendered division of labour and the social valorisation of male roles have been a reality for at least 10,000 years.
Exhibition open during the media library’s opening hours.
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