Provider: Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic

TY  - JOUR
JO  - Anthropologie (Brno)
TI  - WOMEN AT A DISADVANTAGE? NOT
NECESSARILY: SEX-SPECIFIC DIFFERENCES
IN LIFE EXPECTANCY OF 20-YEAR-OLD
INDIVIDUALS IN THE LATE BRONZE AGE /
EARLY IRON AGE
AU  - Caselitz P
Y1  - 2019
VL  - 57
IS  - 3
PB  - Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic
SN  - 0323-1119
SP  - 247
EP  - 261
KW  - Life expectancy – Mortality differences – Cremations – Late Bronze Age – Early Iron Age
N2  - 
N2  - Women in pre- and protohistoric times were subject to a higher mortality rate than men, according to a widespread, yet insufficiently tested hypotheses. This statement is examined for 20-year-old individuals in a sample of 66 European communities that used cremation as a burial rite in the late Bronze Age / early Iron Age (1300–500 BC).
Results indicate an average difference of 3.6 years in the mortality to the disadvantage of women, which increases with weak significance over time. It is noteworthy that in one-fifth of the samples the 20-year-old males have a lower life expectancy than their female peers. The regional distribution of the Central European communities across three subgroups show less favourable relations for women in the southern populations.
ER  -