Being reflexive, self conscious, our views about anything including women in the past are effected by our views in our won societies. More focused on the individual as active generator and perpetuator of society. Returning to archaeological examples within the post-processual orientation, I would like to focus on the Bronze age in Southern Scandinavia, Denmark. beginning around 1500 BC, the same time as the Minoans. Metals come in and with them new items are visible in the archaeological record. Both are purposeful.
Burials are conspicuous consumption, in that the items are taken out of circulation.
First of all this is overt evidence for wealth goods. When hoards have been uncovered the items have been attributed to gender. Second that the items associated with women increase in elaboration, esp. These styles are age related but also they are area related, as if ethnic identities were marked in the clothing of the women. By the late Bronze Age, the women have huge pieces of jewelry.