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Science, stratigraphy and the deep sequence: excavation vs regional survey and the question of gendered practice in archaeology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Stephanie Moser
Stephanie Moser*
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Department of Archaeology, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, England
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Do gender roles, or expectations about gender roles, affect what kind of study is pursued by the individual researcher? Has excavation been rather a man's business? And if so, have other kinds of study — regional survey, for example — rather become women's business? These issues are explored as they are illuminated by the research careers of two eminent Australian contemporaries.

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Antiquity , Volume 70 , Issue 270 , December 1996 , pp. 813 - 823
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1996

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