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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Joanna Sofaer Derevenski
Joanna Sofaer Derevenski*
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Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3DZ, England. jrs35@cam.ac.uk
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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.

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Antiquity , Volume 71 , Issue 274 , December 1997 , pp. 875 - 889
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1997

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