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The Bioarchaeology of Socio-Sexual Lives

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The first year in our graduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania, the members of my cohort were assigned selected chapters from the groundbreaking Engendering Archaeology (Conkey and Gero in Engendering archaeology: women and prehistory, Wiley, Cambridge, 1991). The edited volume delivered on Conkey and Spector’s (Adv Archaeol Method Theory 7:1–38, 1984) initial prompt to study gender with a critical feminist lens in place. Its inclusion on the Fundamentals of Archaeology’s syllabus indicated that by the late 1990s archaeologists recognized, some more begrudgingly than others, that gender was a viable research concern.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    For a photograph of the diorama see http://www.amnh.org/education/resources/rfl/web/hhoguide/popup.php? img=neanderthal_lg.jpg&caption=Neanderthal%20Campsite%20%C2%A9AMNH/Roderick%20Mickens, accessed on 18 March 2016.

  2. 2.

    “Featuring four life-sized tableaux of Homo ergaster, Homo erectus, Neanderthals, and Cro-Magnons, the Spitzer Hall of Human Origins shows each species in its habitat, demonstrating the behaviors and capabilities that scientists think it had” (http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/permanent-exhibitions/human-origins-and-cultural-halls/anne-and-bernard-spitzer-hall-of-human-origins, accessed 18 March 2015).

  3. 3.

    See http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/09/pictures/110922-rare-mayan-female-ruler-tomb-found-guatemala/, accessed on 1 August 2015.

  4. 4.

    See http://archive.archaeology.org/1201/features/topten_guatemala.html, accessed on 1 August 2015.

  5. 5.

    The third individual is culturally identified as Seminole (97-606-708). In a forthcoming manuscript titled Your Obedient Servant, which treats the Morton Collection as a direct outcome of necropolitical conditions, I expand on this decedent.

  6. 6.

    Morton’s original cataloguing of his collection has been amended over the years. In 1966, ANSP loaned it to Penn Museum and L-606 prefaced Morton’s original designations. In 1997, Penn Museum changed the L- to 97- when the loan was formally gifted. Today, the Sioux and Ottawa decedents are labeled 97-606-605 and 97-606-1007, respectively.

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