Women in Prehistory: North America and Mesoamerica - Paperback

by Cheryl Claassen (Editor), Rosemary A. Joyce (Editor)

During the 1960s, in such works as Man the Hunter, scholars constructed a model of cultural evolution in which men were characterized as "cooperative hunters of big game." Women fit neatly into this model, such books as Woman the Gatherer explained

Author Biography

Contributors include Jeffrey Bendremer, Hetty Jo Brumbach, Patricia Galloway, Susan Gillespie, Byron Hamann, Julia Hendon, Sandra Hollimon, Robert Jarvenpa, Lyle Koehler, Richard Lesure, Susan Prezzano, Alison Rautman, Mary Beth Williams, Diane Wilson, and the editors. Cheryl Claassen is Professor of Anthropology at Appalachian State University in North Carolina and is the editor of Women in Archaeology, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Rosemary A. Joyce is Director of the Phoebe Apperson Hearst Museum of Anthropology and Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. Joyce is coeditor, with Susan D. Gillespie, of Beyond Kinship: Social and Material Reproduction in House Societies, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.