Archaeologies of Gender and Violence

Uro Mati and Bo Jensen have brought together a team of both young and senior researches from many different countries in this first volume that aims to explore the complex intersection between archaeology, gender and violence. Papers range from theoretical discussions on previous approaches to gender and violence and the ethical necessity to address these questions today, to case studies dealing on gender and violence from prehistoric to early medieval Europe, but also including studies on ancient Egypt, Persia and Peru. The contributors deal both with representations of violence and its gendered background in images and text, and with bioarchaeological evidence for violence and trauma with a gendered background. The volume is rich both in examples and approaches and includes opening and closing chapters by senior scholars in the field assesing the current state of work and addressing the scholarship to continue on the line of this volume.
About the Author: Uroš Matić is a Ph.D candidate at The Institute for Egyptology and Coptic studies, University of Muenster (Germany) where he is working on his thesis on violent physical treatments of enemies and prisoners of war in New Kingdom Egypt.
About the Author: Bo Jensen is an archaeologist (Ph.D), educated in Copenhagen, and working on rescue excavations in the Danish commercial sector. His research focuses on Viking Age Scandinavia; on issues of symbolism, identity and meaning, and on how these phenomena interact with economy and the exercise of power.