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In comparing designs on pottery, baskets, textiles, figurines and rock art from a group of shallow caves in northeastern Arizona, I noted there were at least two distinct decorative styles in use at the same time. Archaeologists often treat decorative styles as diagnostic of particular time periods and cultural traditions. I will argue here that these two art styles have something to do with gender.
Special thanks to Dan Boone of Northern Arizona University’s Research Imaging Laboratory for his generous assistance with the illustrations, to the Arizona State Museum, American Museum of Natural History, United States National Museum of Natural History for collections access, and to the University of Arizona Graduate College for funding.
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Hays-Gilpin, K. (2000). Gender Constructs in the Material Culture of Seventh-century Anasazi Farmers in North-eastern Arizona. In: Donald, M., Hurcombe, L. (eds) Representations of Gender from Prehistory to the Present. Studies in Gender and Material Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-62331-0_3
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