Gender and mobility patterns at the beginning of farming in SE Moravia

MORELL-ROVIRA, Berta, Zdeněk TVRDÝ, Marta DIAZ-ZORTIA BONILLA, Penny BICKLE, Peter TÓTH, Michal PŘICHYSTAL, Alžběta BEDÁŇOVÁ and Alba MASCLANS. Gender and mobility patterns at the beginning of farming in SE Moravia. In 29th EAA Annual Meeting in Belfast, Northern Ireland, 30 August - 2 September 2023. 2023.

Basic information

• Original name: Gender and mobility patterns at the beginning of farming in SE Moravia
• Authors: MORELL-ROVIRA, Berta, Zdeněk TVRDÝ, Marta DIAZ-ZORTIA BONILLA, Penny BICKLE, Peter TÓTH, Michal PŘICHYSTAL, Alžběta BEDÁŇOVÁ and Alba MASCLANS.
• Edition: 29th EAA Annual Meeting in Belfast, Northern Ireland, 30 August - 2 September 2023, 2023.

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Presentations at conferences
• Field of Study: 60102 Archaeology
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• WWW: URL
• Organization unit: Faculty of Arts
• Keywords in English: gender; mobility; Neolithic

Abstract

New insights into the experiences of gender and kinship in Central-European Early Neolithic communities have been recently approached in recent years from different methods, such as isotopic analysis, DNA, use-wear analysis or osteology. As a result, these communities have been related to early signs of patrilocal exogamic practices, gender-differentiated demographic and dietary patterns, sexual division of labour, and interpersonal violence. These proposals have as a common denominator a high level of internal dynamism as farming spread through Central Europe. Though some general patterns can be identified across the main Linearbandkeramik area, questions as to heterogeneous gender identities and whether or not generalized patterns apply everywhere remain debated. This presentation aims to explore the presence of patrilocality and its possible consequences regarding women’s quality of life and female gender construction within the first European farming communities of south-eastern Moravia (Czech Republic and Slovakia). Specifically, new data on the mobility (87Sr/86Sr & δ18O) and the dietary patterns (δ13C & δ15N) of some of the most well-known Linearbandkeramik funerary contexts of this area will be presented, considering the differences on grounds of sex and gender. The role of temporality in the analysis of these proxies will also be approached through Bayesian Modelling of new sets of 14C dates, in order to examine if certain patterns could be related to some kind of temporal framework on an intra-inter-site level.

Links

• MUNI/A/1420/2022, interní kód MU: Name: Archeologické terénní prospekce, exkavace a dokumentace III

Investor: Masaryk University, Archaeological field prospecting, excavation and documentation III