xxxvi, 1074 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.

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pt. I Mesopotamia -- Introduction -- 1.Female sexuality in Mesopotamia / Stephanie Lynn Budin -- 2.Being mothers or acting (like) mothers? Constructing motherhood in ancient Mesopotamia / M. Erica Couto-Ferreira -- 3.Images of queens, high priestesses, and other elite women in third-millennium Mesop...

11.No reason to hide: women in the Neo-Elamite and Persian Periods / Maria Brosius -- pt. II Egypt -- Introduction -- 12.Understanding the lives of Ancient Egyptian women: the contribution of physical anthropology / Rosalie David -- 13.Women's role in sexual intercourse in ancient Egypt / Marc Orrio...

23.Women in Hittite religion / Billie Jean Collins -- pt. IV Cyprus -- Introduction -- 24.Real bones, real women, real lives: bioarchaeology and osteobiographies of women in ancient Cyprus / Kirsi O. Lorentz -- 25.Maternity in Ancient Cyprus / Stephanie Lynn Budin -- 26.Women at home and in the comm...

33."Will womankind now be hunting?": the work and economic lives of women at Late Bronze Age Ugarit / Kevin M. McGeough -- 34.Women's daily life (Iron Age Israel) / Carol Meyers -- 35.Women in Philistia: the archaeological record of the Iron Age / Assaf Yasur-Landau -- 36.Women's religious life (Iro...

43.Women in the Mycenaean economy / Cynthia W. Shelmerdine -- 44.Beyond Penelope: women and the role of textiles in Early Greece / Brendan Burke -- 45.The bioarchaeology of women in Greek antiquity / Sherry C. Fox -- 46.Women in Early Iron Age and Archaic Greece: a view from the grave / James Whitle...

53.Seianti Hanunia Tlesnasa: an Etruscan aristocrat / Judith Swaddling -- 54.Motherhood in Etruria / Larissa Bonfante -- 55.Health and medicine for Etruscan women / Jean Macintosh Turfa -- 56.Etruscan marriage / Federica Pitzalis -- 57.Women of the princely families in Etruria / Federica Pitzalis --...

66.Roman women in the urban economy: occupations, social connections, and gendered exclusions / Hilary Becker -- 67.A demanding supply: prostitutes in the Roman world / Linnea Ashede -- 68.Identities and social roles of women in military settlements in the Roman west / Elizabeth M. Greene -- 69.Fema...