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Changes in the sexual division of labor in the prehistory of the Southern Levant.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Changes in the sexual division of labor in the prehistory of the Southern Levant./
Author:	Peterson, Jane Darden.
Description:	423 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 55-12, Section: A, page: 3895.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International55-12A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Archaeology. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9513647

Changes in the sexual division of labor in the prehistory of the Southern Levant.
Peterson, Jane Darden.

Changes in the sexual division of labor in the prehistory of the Southern Levant. - 423 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 55-12, Section: A, page: 3895.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Arizona State University, 1994.

Sexual divisions of labor are among the most fundamental structures of human societies. A review of the southern Levantine literature demonstrated that past archaeological efforts to model these social arrangements have often lacked empirical verification, been logically inconsistent, or treated the subject incompletely. Using the body of archaeological literature from Epipaleolithic through Middle Bronze Age periods, activity expectations were generated, with an explicit focus on the organizational variability within extant foraging and farming labor systems. These various expectations were tested using a range of skeletal indicators considered to reflect either general workload level or specific activity patterns. Stature, two indices of humeral robusticity, and muscle markings on cortical bone (enthesopathies) were the specific measures considered. Data were amassed from 16 skeletal collections in order to track diachronic changes in the sexual division of labor across a series of significant evolutionary shifts. The results were enlightening in a number of respects. A significant degree of task segregation characterizes the terminal hunting and gathering groups. Early farmers, conversely, display a high degree of similarity in robusticity and muscle attachment patterns suggesting a higher degree of task sharing. As the use of secondary animal products (wool, milk, etc.) increases, distinctive sex-specific labor patterns are again evident, with the female group being dominant in a number of instances. These data are consistent with women taking on many of the physically demanding tasks associated with agro-pastoral lifestyles. Male labor was increasingly drawn into the agricultural sphere during the subsequent phase of intensive farming. The spatial correlates of these activity reconstructions were examined with reference to size and composition of the residential unit, and functional specificity of domestic space. Evidence from the foraging and early farming contexts suggests that a variety of organizational solutions including single-sex activity groups and communal labor were viable, despite past emphasis of nuclear family-based structures. Large, extended households developed relatively late in the Southern Levant. These results provide a basis for integrating one social variable, the sexual division of labor, into our efforts to model the inception and development of domestication economies.Subjects--Topical Terms:

622985
Anthropology, Archaeology.

Changes in the sexual division of labor in the prehistory of the Southern Levant.
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