gender and society on the margins of bronze age europe

This book explores and critiques the underlying assumption that a binary gender system and patriarchal norms were universal in Bronze Age Europe through a careful analysis of burial practice in Ireland and Scotland.

Mark Haughton is a prehistoric archaeologist and postdoctoral researcher at Aarhus University, Denmark. This work is based on research conducted there and while a Teaching Associate and PhD fellow at the University of Cambridge. He is interested in human lives in prehistory, broadly centred around themes relating to gender and the body, human/animal relations, mobility and domestic life.