THE FIFTH GENDER AND ARCHAEOLOGY CONFERENCE
PROGRAM

From the Ground Up: Beyond Gender Theory in Archaeology

October 9-10, 1998
Student Union, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Friday October 9, 1998 8:30 - 9:30  Registration and Coffee ROOM E240 9:30 - 10:00 Spencer-Wood, Suzanne M., Harvard University Feminist Historical Archaeology and the Domestic Reform of Boston's Landscape 10:00 - 10:30 Wehner, Karen Bellinger, New York University Reconstructing Gender Relations in a Southern Plantation Household: A Case Study in Historical Archaeology 10:30 - 11:00 Kapler, Todd, University of Colorado-Boulder Replicating Victorian Culture: Women Associated with the Frontier Army 11:00 - 11:30 Discussion 11:30 - 1:00  Lunch 1:00 - 1:30 Prine, Elizabeth, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Considering Gender through Household Behavior: A Case Study from the Northern Plains 1:30 - 2:00 Klein, Michael, Mary Washington College Shell Midden Archaeology and "Gendered Lithics" 2:00 - 2:30 Discussion 2:30 - 3:00  Coffee 3:00 - 3:30 Martelle, Holly, University of Toronto Redefining Craft Specialization: Women's Labour and Pottery Production - An Iroquoian Example 3:30 - 4:00 Sutton, Wendy, Columbia University Reevaluating the Archaeological Household During the Late Prehistoric and Protohistoric Periods on the High Plains in View of a New Understanding of Polygynous Household Organization 4:00 - 4:30 Wicker, Nancy L., Mankato State University Patrons, Goldsmiths, and Women: A Gendered Examination of Migration Period Scandinavian Pendant Jewelry ROOM E280 9:30 - 10:00 Eaverly, Mary Ann, University of Florida Brown Men, White Women: Color and Gender in Ancient Painting 10:00 - 10:30 Rehak, Paul, Duke University The Aegean Landscape and the Body: A New Interpretation of the Thera Frescoes 10:30 - 11:00 Bellas, Monica L., University of California, Riverside Women in the Mixtec Codices: Ceremonial and Ritual Roles of Lady 3 Flint 11:00 - 11:30 Palka, Joel W., University of Illinois-Chicago Classic Maya Elite Marriage Alliances, Male/Female Site Transference, and Parentage Statements: Insights on Ancient Politics and Social Organization from Hieroglyphic Texts 1:00 - 1:30 Doucette, Dianna, Harvard University Interpretation of Atlatls in Archaic Period Mortuary Contexts 1:30 - 2:00 Stalsberg, Anne, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Visible Women Made Invisible: Women´s Finds and the Overall Interpretation of Varangian-Rus' Relations 2:00 - 2:30 Sundkvist, Anneli, Uppsala University, Sweden A Man´s Job? A Feminist Approach to Horses in Archaeology 2:30 - 3:00  Coffee 3:00 - 3:30 Gräslund, Anne-Sofie, Uppsala University, Sweden Is There Any Evidence of Powerful Women in Viking Age Scandinavia? 3:30 - 4:00 Brown, Tammy Macenka, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee The Nature and Status of Celtic Women 4:00 - 4:30 O'Gorman, Jodie A., Center for American Archeology, Kampsville, Illinois Life, Death, and the Longhouse: A Gendered View of Oneota Social Organization 5:00 - 6:00   Plenary Speaker Brumfiel, Elizabeth M., Albion College Ground Rules and Wall Designs: Gender and the State at Teotihuacan Saturday October 10, 1998 ROOM E240 9:00 - 9:30 Ströbeck, Louise, University of Lund, Sweden Challenging the Three-Age System in Scandinavian Prehistory 9:30 - 10:00 Naruta, Anna, UC-Berkeley Feminist Pedagogical Insights and Public Interpretation: A Case Study of the 'Conversational' Approach to Public Archaeology at Andrew Jackson's Hermitage 10:00 - 10:30  Coffee 10:30 - 11:00 Galle, Jillian, University of Virginia The Fabric of the Southwest: Cotton and Gender Interactions in the Late Prehistoric Pueblo Region 11:00 - 11:30 Benson, Kristi, University of Calgary The Warp and Weft of It: Cloth Production and Gender Parallelisms in Mesoamerican Prehistory 11:30 - 1:00  Lunch 1:00 - 1:30 Axelsson, Susanne, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Sund, a Swedish Iron Age Farm Seen in a Different Light 1:30 - 2:00 Victor, Helena, Uppsala University, Sweden The House and the Woman: Re-reading Scandinavian Bronze Age Society 2:00 - 2:30 Brumbach, Hetty Jo and Robert Jarvenpa, SUNY-Albany The Gendered Nature of Living and Storage Space in the Canadian Subarctic 2:30 - 3:00  Coffee 3:00 - 3:30 Rathje, Lillian, University of Umeå, Sweden The Amazon and the Hunter 3:30 - 4:00 Marucci, Georgina Elizabeth, University of Northern British Columbia Women's Ritual Sites in the Interior of British Columbia: An Archaeological Model 4:00 - 4:30 Hays-Gilpin, Kelley, Northern Arizona University From Fertility Shrines to Sacred Landscapes: Gendered Rock Art Research in the Western U.S. ROOM E280 9:00 - 9:30 Weinstein, Elka, University of Toronto Images of Women in Ancient Chorrera Ceramics: Mythology Continuity across Two Millennia in the Tropical Forests of South America 9:30 - 10:00 Staller, John E. Gender & Cosmology: Feline Symbolism in Valdivia Phase VIII Figurines from the Site of San Lorenzo del Mate 10:00 - 10:30  Coffee 10:30 - 11:00 Langdon, Susan, University of Missouri-Columbia Visualizing Gender in Dark Age Greece 11:00 - 11:30 Griffin, Will, University of Michigan Gendered Graffiti from Madagascar to Michigan 11:30 - 1:00  Lunch 1:00 - 1:30 Chesson, Meredith S., Harvard University Embodied Identities: Death and Society in an Early Urban Community 1:30 - 2:00 Jiao, Tianlong, Harvard University Gender Studies in Chinese Neolithic Archaeology 2:00 - 2:30 Sullivan, Lynne P. (NYSM Anth Survey) and Christopher B. Rodning (UNC Research Labs in Arch) Gender Dynamics and Chiefdoms of the Southern Appalachians 2:30 - 3:00  Coffee 3:00 - 3:30 Hollimon, Sandra E., Jenner, CA Gender and Warfare in the Northern Plains: Osteological Evidence of Violence and its Interpretation 3:30 - 4:00 Weglian, Emily J., University of Minnesota Grave Goods Do Not a Gender Make 4:00 - 4:30 Crass, Barbara A., University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Gender and Mortuary Analysis: What Can Grave Goods Really Tell Us? 5:00 - 6:00  Art Gallery Reception