Archaeological Approaches to the Organization of Domestic Labor: Household Practice and Domestic Relations

Annual Review of Anthropology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 45-61

  Hendon, Julia A ^a  

^a GETTYSBURG COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Gender; Mesoamerica; Microscale; Neolithic; Specialization

Indexed keywords

EID: 0009838249     PISSN: 00846570     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.anthro.25.1.45     Document Type: Article

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