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Note publique d'information : Building on the largest sample of Macedonian burials from the Archaic to the Hellenistic
period synthesised to date, this work provides new insight into the society that gave
birth to Philip II and Alexander the Great. An intersectional focus on gender, age,
and status reveals the lives of Macedonians only rarely discussed, from non-elite
men to women and children. Quantitative analysis and case studies add complexity and
nuance to our understanding of a society sometimes reduced to mighty warriors and
fierce royal women, as the book introduces children who were seen as disposable or
cherished depending on their family pedigree, women who drew both on their fertility
and on male-associated objects for power, and men who were neither as militant nor
as Homeric as traditionally depicted. The book also explores changes over time and
addresses the promise and challenges of applying intersectionnality to archaeological
contexts. Readers have access to a database with over a thousand graves, available
for anyone wishing to conduct their own analyses or research based on it.
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