Are the gender relations of the past necessarily those of the present?

Abstract

One of the most important discussions that has taken place in the analysis of the past is about how gender relations have been in prehistory. The work that I present here focuses mainly on the recovery of the archaeological discussion that has taken place in the Spanish-speaking area, and the approaches of various anthropologists that could contribute to a better explanation of the appearance of gender relations and their implications over time. Along with a general alternative proposal from the so-called Ameroiberican Social Archaeology. I conclude with the statement that the gender revolution is concurrent with the tribal revolution, because it created the conditions to impose control mechanisms on the labor force and the vector of its reproduction, the female sex. Corresponding to the new need for more population to defend the territories, given its direct impact on reproduction and population replenishment, which involved the configuration of gender as a structuring axis of social life.