Ancient Bodies, Ancient Lives: Sex, Gender, and Archaeology

by Rosemary A. Joyce

Book Overview

The ancient Greeks saw men and women as expressing varying degrees of a single sexual potential; many Native American societies considered sexual identity as something that changed and developed during a lifetime, and recognized three or four categories of sexual identity.

Ranging from the earliest European hunters who created the first human images known to us almost 30,000 years ago to the lives of men and women from the nineteenth and twentieth...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0500287279
• ISBN13: 9780500287279
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.9"