Diane Bolger & Nancy Serwint (ed.). Engendering Aphrodite: women and society in ancient Cyprus.

Diane Bolger & Nancy Serwint (ed.). Engendering Aphrodite: women and society in ancient Cyprus. (American Schools of Oriental Research Archaeological Report 7).xvi+457 pages, 122 figures, tables. 2002. Boston (MA): American Schoolsof Oriental Research; 0-89757-059-6 hardback $99.95 & 70 [poundssterling]. Drs BOLGER & SERWINT introduce 26 chunky chunk��y?adj. chunk��i��er, chunk��i��est1. Short and thick; stocky.2. Containing small thick pieces: chunky peanut butter; chunky soup. papers grouped bytheme: social organization from Neolithic to Middle Bronze Age Bronze Age,period in the development of technology when metals were first used regularly in the manufacture of tools and weapons. Pure copper and bronze, an alloy of copper and tin, were used indiscriminately at first; this early period is sometimes called the (introduced by A. le Brun and with contributions by E. Peltenburg,BOLGER, and J. Webb) and from Late Bronze Age to the Middle Ages;personal and ethnic identity (including L. Talalay & T. Cullen on`Sexual ambiguity in Plank Figures'); jobs (including aninteresting attempt by J. Smith to identify workshop production); andworship (including N. SERWINT on Aphrodite Aphrodite(ăfrədī`tē), in Greek religion and mythology, goddess of fertility, love, and beauty. Homer designated her the child of Zeus and Dione. in the Near East). Therefollow three methodological contributions and a discussion on `Equityissues in archaeology today'.