“…The spatial organization of the built environment, features on the landscape, and material culture are effective lenses for discerning gender ideologies and relations from archaeological contexts (e.g., Conkey and Gero, 1991;KryderReid, 1994;Moore, 1996;Rotman, 1995;Rotman and Nassaney, 1997;Savulis, 1992Savulis, , 1998Scott, 1994;Wall, 1991Wall, , 1994Yentsch, 1991). Gero and Conkey (1991, p. 23) stress that By adopting gender as an explicit conceptual and analytical category, by applying gender concepts and categories to familiar and original sets of archaeological data, women are brought into view as active producers, innovators and contextualizers of the very material world by which we know the past.…”