Archaeology and the Life Course: A Time and Age for Gender

Gilchrist, Roberta

doi:10.1002/9780470693605.ch6

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“…Marriage, having children, gaining employment and old age are all critical periods of change (Barrier, 1998;Ruiz-Perez et al, 2006;Johnson, 2008). These stages are recognisable in the life courses or experiences of many past societies (Foner & Kertzer, 1978;Gowland, 2006;Gilchrist, 2008;Buikstra & Scott, 2009;Knudson & Stojanowski, 2009;Appleby, 2010), but the extent to which we can directly map clinically derived age groups onto the life courses of past societies remains questionable. These life events often signal a change in power relations, a driver identified by both perpetrators and victims.…”

Section: Domestic Violence Across the Life Spanmentioning

confidence: 99%

Identifying and Interpreting Domestic Violence in Archaeological Human Remains: A Critical Review of the Evidence

Redfern

2015

Intl J of Osteoarchaeology

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This research reviews and discusses the clinical and social science datasets used to identify victims of domestic violence (DV) in the archaeological record. Clinical sources are skewed by law enforcement and cost issues, dominated by Western female data and suggest that DV is a well-documented form of abuse. Social science sources and perspectives, having arisen from activist movements, are more spatiotemporally diverse in breadth and perspective, and challenge the notion that DV is universal and well-documented, but are biased because they rely upon self-survey reports. Palaeopathology and bioarchaeology have adopted a clinical approach to DV, relying on a pattern of injuries (focussed on the head, face and neck), without critically evaluating whether such datasets are appropriate to the spatiotemporal and socio-cultural diversity present in the archaeological record. A case study evaluating the injury patterns in 964 post-medieval adult females from London (England) demonstrates that the majority of injuries that conform to the clinical model have robust alternative explanations, and only a small minority of females have injuries that may have been produced by interpersonal violence, not necessarily DV.In conclusion, the review highlights that the perspectives of the elderly and male victims are currently neglected in research, and evidence for injury, especially that which may reflect abuse, necessitates interpretation within a 'web of violence' approach, as DV does not occur in isolation from other violence in a community. It challenges the 'check-list' approach to interpretation and suggests that a closer examination of fracture mechanism combined with injury patterning may be a more informative approach with which to identify DV victims of both sexes and identifies the need to integrate other health data into the interpretation of violence and abuse. Overall, it concurs with the minority of clinical and forensic literature that it might not be possible to differentiate DV and assault victims.

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Section: Domestic Violence Across the Life Spanmentioning

confidence: 99%

Identifying and Interpreting Domestic Violence in Archaeological Human Remains: A Critical Review of the Evidence

Redfern

2015

Intl J of Osteoarchaeology

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“…Gamble's conceptual work is an example of social archaeology that is moving in a similar direction as that of gender archaeologists who are exploring childhood and the life course (see Gilchrist 2004). It also addresses some of the problems relevant to historians and archaeologists interested in the early history of cognition and symbolic expression.…”

Section: Looking Back Even Further: What Isn't Written In Stone?mentioning

confidence: 96%

Temporalities and Periodization in Deep History: Technology, Gender, and Benchmarks of "Human Development"

Maynes¹,

Waltner²

2012

Social Science History

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Technology, Gender, and Benchmarks of "Human Development"For historians, questions about what to call particular eras and how to conceptualize the temporal dynamics of change become particularly acute as we take on revisionist projects, such as writing and teaching feminist history, examining chronologically "deep" history, or placing history in a material as well as a social environment and in a global perspective. Temporal frameworks influence historical research even when it is located within a very limited time frame; temporalities and periodizations operate more explicitly in the teaching of survey courses. The particular periodization problems we focus on here emerged from teaching premodern world history with a focus on family and household dynamics. In trying to connect research on the domestic group as a site of world history with a historical narrative that begins with the emergence of human society and draws on evidence from around the globe, we were struck again and again by the problematic perspectives embedded in conventional periodizations. New directions in archaeological scholarship offer global historians insights and approaches with which to inform their temporal frameworks.

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“…Developments in life-course theory highlight the influence of age-dependent facets of social identity and status in structuring social interactions (e.g., Gilchrist 2000Gilchrist , 2004Prowse 2011;Robb 2002;Zvelebil and Weber 2013). Bioarchaeological investigations of family and relatedness will benefit from incorporating life-course and life-history perspectives.…”

Section: Family Childhood and Life Coursementioning

confidence: 99%

Bioarchaeology and Kinship: Integrating Theory, Social Relatedness, and Biology in Ancient Family Research

Johnson

Paul

2015

J Archaeol Res

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Theoretical developments in sociocultural anthropology have transformed the study of kinship. Here, we review these theoretical developments, consider their influence on bioarchaeological kinship research, and propose an alternative framework for studying relatedness in antiquity. We find that broader, more flexible conceptions of relatedness have grown increasingly prevalent in 21st-century bioarchaeology, but kinship research largely continues to emphasize methodological improvement and identification of biological kin in archaeological contexts. By approaching kinship as a multiscalar dimension of social identity, bioarchaeologists can leverage complex conceptions of relatedness with diverse types of data to gain nuanced perspectives on family-based social organization in the past.

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Archaeology and the Life Course: A Time and Age for Gender

Cited by 22 publications

References 26 publications

Identifying and Interpreting Domestic Violence in Archaeological Human Remains: A Critical Review of the Evidence

Identifying and Interpreting Domestic Violence in Archaeological Human Remains: A Critical Review of the Evidence

Temporalities and Periodization in Deep History: Technology, Gender, and Benchmarks of "Human Development"

Bioarchaeology and Kinship: Integrating Theory, Social Relatedness, and Biology in Ancient Family Research

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