Reconstructing sexual divisions of labor from fingerprints on Ancestral Puebloan pottery.

ABSTRACT: An understanding of the division of labor in different societies, and especially how it evolved in the human species, is fundamental to most analyses of social, political, and economic systems. The ability to reconstruct how labor was organized, however, especially in ancient societies that left behind few material remains, is challenged by the paucity of direct evidence demonstrating who was involved in production. This is particularly true for identifying divisions of labor along lines of age, sex, and gender, for which archaeological interpretations mostly rely upon inferences derived from modern examples with uncertain applicability to ancient societies. Drawing upon biometric studies of human fingerprints showing statistically distinct ridge breadth measurements for juveniles, males,

SUBMITTER: Kantner J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6589681 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature