Gender Education in Archaeology

Higher education in archaeology is drawing increasing attention from academics and institutions in order to improve the methods of teaching and learning. A parallel trend in mostly, but not only, academic circles is the establishment of sexed and gendered patterns in past societies and the present professional discipline of archaeology. How these two trends interrelate is unclear at present. This chapter looks at current and archival data on module descriptions from universities in Bulgaria, Germany and the United Kingdom in an attempt to identify trajectories in gender education in archaeology, with the presumption that key issues, methods and theories in archaeology will have an equal mention. The results show a very low level of publicly available archival data and sporadic to entirely absent mention of gender, identity and diversity in descriptions aimed to inform and attract potential students. We conclude by identifying steps towards improving this dismal situation.