Vol. 2021 (2023): Communicationes Archaeologicae Hungariae
Studies

Female gender markers in graves of men in the Avar Period of the Middle Tisza region

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  • Ádám Máté Horváth
Ádám Máté Horváth
Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Humanities, Institute of Archaeological Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54640/CAH.2021.41

Published 2023-03-06

Keywords

  • Early Middle Age,
  • Avar Age,
  • Social Archaeology,
  • Gender Archaeology,
  • Middle Tisza Region

How to Cite

Horváth, Ádám M. (2023). Female gender markers in graves of men in the Avar Period of the Middle Tisza region. Communicationes Archaeologicae Hungariae, 2021, 41–67. https://doi.org/10.54640/CAH.2021.41

Abstract

The study analyses the roles of object types characteristic to burials of women and girls, recovered from graves of males in the Middle Tisza Region during the Avar Period. The related analysis includes 140 suitable burials of men and boys from eighteen sites. Its goals were to classify the findings in focus and reveal their possible social roles. The related artefact types include earrings, necklaces, finger rings, bronze discs, spindle discs and whorls, needle cases, and eggs. The objects may have had different meanings for the owner and the society, giving another focal point to the current research. Most graves were dated to the second half of the Avar Period, and most belonged to possible members of the one-time local political elite.

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