Gender

Archaeology of Gender Syllabus
Syllabus of class offered in 1997 at Western Michigan University.
http://homepages.wmich.edu/~zagarell/gensyl.htm

Exploring Gender Through Archaeology
Online version of volume of papers from the 1991 Boone Conference edited by Cheryl Claassen.
http://www.anthro.appstate.edu/ebooks/gender/toc.html

Gender Archaeology: A Bibliography
A detailed bibliography from Northern Arizona University.
http://www2.nau.edu/~gender-p/biblio/bibintro2.htm

How a Feminist Stance Improves Archaeology
An article by Sarah Milledge Nelson with the implication that focusing on gender leads to better archaeology. [PDF]
http://www2.nau.edu/~gender-p/Papers/Nelson.pdf

Images of Women in Ancient Art
Issues of interpretation and identity from Chris Witcombe of Sweet Briar College.
http://www.arthistory.sbc.edu/imageswomen/f3-women.html

Warrior Women of Eurasia
Ancient burial mounds in Russia have yielded skeletons of women buried with weapons, suggesting the Greek Amazon tales may have had some basis in fact.
http://www.archaeology.org/9701/abstracts/sarmatians.html

Women and Gender in Ancient Egypt: From Prehistory to Late Antiquity
An online version of a Kelsey Museum exhibition mounted from March 14 through June 15, 1997, and curated by Terry G. Wilfong.
http://www.umich.edu/~kelseydb/Exhibits/WomenandGender/title.html

Women in the Ancient Near East:
Bibliography of recent sources in The Oriental Institute Research Archives.
http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/RA/WOMEN.HTML

Dig Finds New Kind of Roman Camp
From New Zealand Herald, the remains of a young Roman man who dressed as a woman and probably castrated himself show a previously unknown side of Britain's ancient history. <small>(May 23, 2002)</small>
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/2/story.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=2042615