Pictures are an essential feature of archaeological discourse. The way they are used and their unconsciously made assertions demonstrate important things about ourselves, our theories, our methods, and the way we think. They subtly convey our convictions and view of the world especially with regards to gender issues.

The papers united in this volume highlight the relationship between words and images, thinking and showing, knowledge and assumptions, scholarly thinking and popular images in archaeology. They cover two main issues: pictorial representations of archaeology in academic and popular media, and pictures in museums. The authors examine the use of gender in academic publications, TV-documentaries, video games, non-fiction books for children and adolescents, and in archaeological museums in Spain and Germany.

The volume is the result of two sessions of gender study in archaeology: Images of the Past: Gender and its Representations during the 20th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists in September 2014 in Istanbul, and Gender in Museums, the symposium of the Nordwestdeutscher Verband für Altertumskunde (Northwest German Association for Antiquarian Studies) in September 2013 in Lübeck. This book includes articles in English and in German.

Autorentext
Since 2007 Dr. Jana Esther Fries is a heritage officer at the Lower Saxony State Service for Cultural Heritage and responsible for the archaeological heritage in the West of Lower Saxony. At the University of Oldenburg she teaches introductory courses in prehistoric archaeology and cultural heritage management. From 1996 to 2006 she worked as director of rescue excavations for different federal states. Her research is focused on Iron Age, gender issues, settlement archaeology and more recently on late Paleolithic sites and Mesolithic hearth pits. Dr. Doris Gutsmiedl-Schümann is currently assistant professor at the Institute of Prehistoric Archaeology, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. From 2011 to 2016 she was research associate and study program manager at the Department of Archaeology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Bonn, and contracted lecturer at Leuphana university Lüneburg and at Helmut-Schmidt-University/University of the Federal Armed Forces, Hamburg, where she teaches introductory courses in prehistoric archaeology. Her research interest are lifeworlds, gender roles and identity; the Justinian plaque; visual representations of the past; the archaeology of death and burial; chronology as well as statistical methods and databases in archaeology. She is mainly working in Iron Age Scandinavia; Roman Period; Migration Period as well as Merovingian Period and younger Early Middle Ages. Dr. Jo Zalea Matias has recently completed her doctoral work at the University of Durham. Her work focuses on Iron Age Britain and France, and her research interests include archaeology in popular and social media, visual representations of the past, gender identity, and historiography. As a co-principal investigator on the "New light on old sites" project, she is currently reassessing the Iron Age site of Swallowcliffe Down in Wiltshire, UK. Ulrike Rambuscheck M.A. studierte Ur- und Frühgeschichte, Klassische Archäologie und Völkerkunde in Köln und Göttingen. Sie ist im Vorstand von FemArc - Netzwerk archäologisch arbeitender Frauen e. V. engagiert. Seit 2005 fungiert sie als Co-Sprecherin der AG Geschlechterforschung bei den Altertumsverbänden. Daraus ergab sich die (Mit-)Herausgabe mehrerer Bände der Reihe Frauen - Forschung - Archäologie. Nach einer Tätigkeit als Grabungsleiterin arbeitet sie seit 2008 als freiberufliche Lektorin. Chloé Belard is a scientific collaborator in the UMR 8546 AOROC CNRSENS of the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. She is affiliated with the Department of Archaeology of the University of Southampton (UK), where she worked in a post-doctoral position funded by the Fyssen Foundation. She has published papers related to gender archaeology and her PhD thesis, concerning the funerary representation of women in Iron Age cemeteries in Champagne. Kirsten Eppler M.A. hat Ur- und Frühgeschichte, Mittelalter- und Neuzeitarchäologie sowie Klassische Archäologie in Tübingen und Stellenbosch, Südafrika, studiert. Nach ihrem Abschluss war sie zunächst Volontärin, später Mitarbeiterin am Landesmuseum Württemberg in Stuttgart und arbeitet derzeit an der Universität Erfurt an ihrer Dissertation zur Geschichte der Archäologie im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert. Sie interessiert sich für die komplexenWechselwirkungen von Kolonialismus und Archäologie und deren bis heute nachwirkende ethische Dimensionen sowie die vielschichtigen Beziehungen zwischen Archäologie und Gesellschaft. Weitere Forschungsinteressen liegen im Bereich musealer Sammlungsgeschichte(n) und der Geschichte der Archäologie. Dr. Katja Fält received her PhD in art history from the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Her dissertation "Wall Paintings, Workshops, and Visual Production in the Medieval Diocese of Turku from 1430 to 1540" was published in 2012. She is currently working with a post-doctoral research project at the University of Jyväskylä that focuses on medieval bodyscapes and visual culture in late medieval Finland. Her research interests include representations of the Middle Ages and gender in non-fiction books for young readers, and gender, devotion and "otherness" in medieval visual culture. Since 2007 Dr. Jana Esther Fries is a heritage officer at the Lower Saxony State Service for Cultural Heritage and responsible for the archaeological heritage in the West of Lower Saxony. At the University of Oldenburg she teaches introductory courses in prehistoric archaeology and cultural heritage management. From 1996 to 2006 she worked as director of rescue excavations for different federal states. Her research is focused on Iron Age, gender issues, settlement archaeology and more recently on late Paleolithic sites and Mesolithic hearth pits. Dr. Doris Gutsmiedl-Schümann is currently assistant professor at the Institute of Prehistoric Archaeology, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. From 2011 to 2016 she was research associate and study program manager at the Department of Archaeology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Bonn, and contracted lecturer at Leuphana university Lüneburg and at Helmut-Schmidt-University/University of the Federal Armed Forces, Hamburg, where she teaches introductory courses in prehistoric archaeology. Her research interest are lifeworlds, gender roles and identity; the Justinian plaque; visual representations of the past; the archaeology of death and burial; chronology as well as statistical methods and databases in archaeology. She is mainly working in Iron Age Scandinavia; Roman Period; Migration Period as well as Merovingian Period and younger Early Middle Ages. Dr. Christina Jacob, Leiterin der Archäologischen Sammlung der Städtischen Museen Heilbronn seit 1986. Gründung der bundesweiten AG Archäologie im Museum 2001 und Sprecherin bis 2011 (heute Fachgruppe des Deutschen Museumsbundes). Redaktion der museo-Reihe des Museums zu archäologischen Themen und Sonderausstellungen. Kuratorin der archäologischen Sonderausstellungen in den Städtischen Museen Heilbronn, zuletzt 2007 Tatort Talheim, 2010 Steinzeit-Großbaustellen, 2012 Heilbronn historisch, 2013 Alltagsarchäologische Analogobjekte.

Zusammenfassung
Dieses Buch bietet einen guten Einstieg für Gelehrte der Altertumskunde und Kulturschaffende, sich in übersichtlichen Beiträgen den gender-studies zu nähern. Die Artikel greifen [...] theoretische Debatten auf und nennen grundlegende weiterführende Literatur [...] Rainer Schreg auf Archaeologik