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Discuss Gender Roles With Regard To Hallstatt And La Tene Bu


It contained a multiple burial of one man and one woman and a large number of grave goods including metal drinking vessels, animal hides and a four wheeled wagon. This extreme form of grave goods assemblages within individual late Hallstatt tumuli indicates that some form of kinship structure rather than economic status alone was the primary determining factor in tumulus burial. .
             Iron Age Europe exposes, more clearly than perhaps any other field of archaeological enquiry, to what degree modern interpretations of ancient gender are the products of our modern day constructs of the male and female. An example of this is the inclusion of drinking vessels in apparently female burials or in some cases the possibility that a burial containing weapons might be female.
             It was previously thought that the idea of feasting and drinking vessels was mainly associated with males. It wasn't until much later and within more modern burial interpretations that it was realised that many of these graves were in fact those of female individuals.
             In spite of considerable variation in early Iron Age burial practices, certain regularities can be identified that are clearly related to the gender of the interred individual.
             Grave goods can be used to help define the sex of an individual, however, only as a guide. The gender cannot be determined on grave goods alone. The inclusion of wagons provides an important component directly related to status irrespective of gender.
             Neck rings were not gender specific status markers in the early La Tene as they are found in both male and female elite burials. Bracelets are known from male and female elite burials, but the distinction of gender lies in the number and distribution of bracelets on each arm. The general rule appears to be that males had a tendency to wear them asymmetrically and females symmetrically. Elite males usually wore just the one bracelet on the left arm or if they wore multiple then these were worn on the upper arms.


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