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Blackmore, Georgina (2023)

The Modern Agenda behind Ancient Gender: A Content Analysis on the Engendered Language surrounding Chalcolithic Cypriot Cruciform Figurines.

Bachelor thesis | Archeologie (BA)

This paper aims to study the literature surrounding Cypriot Chalcolithic cruciform anthropomorphic figurines and their gendered identity. Within academia, we see issues arising from gendering of ancient bodies with modern views – creating cross-wired hypotheses on gender manifestation in prehistoric art. Concentrating on the Chalcolithic cruciform figurines, words patterns and trends will be analysed to gain a better understanding of how gendering ancient identities with modern biases is chronicled within a range of selected literature from the 1930s to the current day.

Archaeology

Gender

Feminism

Content Analysis

Prehistory

Author

Blackmore, Georgina

Faculty

Faculty of Archaeology

Supervisors

Düring, B.S.

ECTS Credits

10

Language

en