Gender in African prehistory / edited by Susan Kent

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Gender and prehistory in Africa / Susan Kent -- Resolving the past : gender in the Stone Age archaeological record of the Western Cape / John Parkington -- Invisible gender--invisible foragers : southern African hunter-gatherer spatial patterning and the archaeological record / Susan Kent -- The invisible meat providers : women in the Stone Age of South Africa / Lyn Wadley -- Just a formality : the presence of fancy projectile points in a basic tool assemblage / Joanna Casey -- Social variability among Holocene Saharan groups : how to recognize gender / Barbara Barich -- Gender and early pastoralists in East Africa / Diane Gifford-Gonzalez -- Reading gender in the ancient iron technology of Africa / Peter Schmidt -- Gendered technologies and gendered activities in the interlacustrine early Iron Age / Rachel MacLean -- Engendered spaces and bodily practices in the Iron Age of southern Africa / Paul Lane -- Men and women in a market economy : gender and craft production in west central Ghana ca. 1775-1995 / Ann B. Stahl and Maria das Dores Cruz -- Daughters of cattle : the significance of herding in the growth of complex societies in southern Africa between the 10th and 15th centuries AD / Alinah Segobye -- A consideration of gender relations in the late Iron Age "Sotho" sequence of the western Highveld, South Africa / Simon Hall -- Toward an archaeology of gender in Africa / Fekri Hassan -- Views of gender in African prehistory from a Middle Eastern perspective / Ofer Bar-Yosef and Anna Belfer-Cohen -- Reflections on gender studies in African and Asian archaeology / Sarah Milledge Nelson