07-10-2012, 08:05 PM
Quote:My only concern would be that feminist archaeologists - and some male colleagues from the more orthodox study - may just have to learn to live with the fact that soldiers as well as other men wore jewellery too(including beads in all their many and vaired forms and uses)and that "female" articles such as bone and bronze needles and hair pins have many uses other than that for which they were originally designed.Hi,
I think this response is probably much closer to actual feminist archaeology than simply looking for women! Modern feminism is better labelled gender studies, and Roman society is certainly a rich vein for discussion of this nature. In the context of the OP (which isn't really invoking feminist archaeology as such) this could turn to the question of who in Gaul was buying Roman jewellery, for whom, and why, and then turn to what the Romans made of that trade. Of course, answering that is probably going to rely more on finding ethnographic parallels than historical indicators...
