Women, children and the family in the late aegean bronze age: Differences in minoan and mycenaean constructions of gender

World Archaeology

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 380-392

  Olsen, Barbara A ^a,b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b American School of Classical Studies   (Greece)

Author keywords

Aegean bronze age; Children; Figurines; Gender; Kourotrophoi; minoan; Mycenaean

Indexed keywords

BRONZE AGE; CULTURAL HISTORY; GENDER CONSTRUCTION; ICONOGRAPHY;

CRETE; GREECE;

EID: 0031859957     PISSN: 00438243     EISSN: 14701375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00438243.1998.9980386     Document Type: Article

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