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Photo of the week: flexible gender roles in the Neolithic

French and Hungarian researchers have studied the distribution of roles between women and men in Europe during the Neolithic period and have concluded that there was a gender division of labour that was repeated throughout Europe, but that they also had the capacity to act flexibly. They accepted exceptions in response to the diversity and complexity of identities.

The funeral customs reflected, among other things, the structure and distribution of roles in society: women were buried to the left and men to the right. The latter were often placed with bent knees and stone tools next to them. The woman in the photo was buried following the manly custom.

C.A. of Hungary 4800-4600. Woman found at the Csőszhalom site. Published in the American Journal of Biological Anthropology.