Introduction: Gender and the Archaeology of the Southeast, by Christopher B.

Case studies explore the ways in which gender differences affected people’s daily lives by examining material evidence from archaeological sites, including grave goods, human remains, spatial configurations of burials and architecture, and evidence for economic specialization and the division of labor within households. In the first book about the archaeology of gender in native societies of southeastern North America, these lively essays reconstruct the different social roles and relationships adopted by women and men before and after the arrival of Europeans in the 16th century. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.'This book begins the attempt to answer many of the archaeological questions we are finally asking about the long-ignored but crucially important and ever-present social roles of gender among native Americans in the Southeast.' - Nancy Marie White, University of South Florida, coeditor of Grit-Tempered: Early Women Archaeologists in the Southeastern United States Rich with humor, tragedy, and important information for the history of anthropology and archeology in the South and beyond, this book includes the story of African-American women excavators on WPA crews during the Great Depression tales of innovative lab work, adventurous fieldwork, and public archeology and provocative discussions of women in archeology and of gender in the archeological record. Others are no longer living their biographies are gleaned from archival research. Some of the women are working today, and they either wrote their own stories or were interviewed. This volume documents the lives and work of pioneering women archaeologists in the southeastern United States, from the 1920s through the 1960s, portraying their professional accomplishments in the context of their personal lives. Rich with humor, tragedy, and important information for the history of anthropology and archaeology in the South and beyond, this book includes the story of African-American women excavators on WPA crews during the Great Depression tales of innovative lab work, adventurous fieldwork, and public archaeology and provocative discussions of women in archaeology and of gender in the archaeological record.

Grit-Tempered by Nancy Marie White