Age and gender at the site of Tiszapolgár-Basatanya, Hungary

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

E-ISSN: 1745-1744|71|274|875-889

ISSN: 0003-598x

Source: Antiquity, Vol.71, Iss.274, 1997-12, pp. : 875-889

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Abstract

Two fundamentals for the place of the individual in society are age and gender; well-studied cemeteries can provide an good archaeological base for their study. This examination of the Copper Age site of Tiszapolgár-Basatanya, Hungary, explores the relationship between age and gender though the course of prehistoric lives and how it might be possible to distinguish sex from gender in archaeological contexts.