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¿Cuánto hemos cambiado?, pregunta inofensiva en apariencia. El objetivo principal de este trabajo es analizar la presencia y ausencias de las mujeres en los discursos arqueológicos desde una perspectiva feminista. Para ello partimos de la premisa de que el uso de palabras e imágenes en la reconstrucción de nuestro pasado no es inocente ni inocuo sino premeditado y deliberado. La Arqueología de género y feminista lleva décadas denunciando la pervivencia de estereotipos, procesos de cancelación femenina y el mantenimiento de un sistema eurocéntrico y patriarcal en los procesos de construcción del conocimiento. ABSTRACT: How much have we changed? This seemingly harmless question is loaded with a great deal of commitment. The main objective of this work is to analyse the presence and absence of women in archaeological discourses from a feminist perspective. We intend to claim that the use of words and images in the reconstruction of our past is neither innocent nor innocuous, but, on the contrary, premeditated and deliberate. We want to show that scientific knowledge is not devoid of ideology, thus being far from the desired objectivity of science. Archaeology, as a humanistic discipline, has been influenced by androcentric biases both in theory and practice. However, unlike other areas of knowledge, it possesses the capability and power to dissect learned and inherited knowledge, while simultaneously generating renewed knowledge through re-readings and reinterpretations. Archaeology as a discipline is a tool for transforming the society we live in. It is under these assumptions that this work is approached. We examine the past in order to understand the present, which is why it is important to work from a feminist perspective. We study how stereotypes have survived, motivating processes of female cancellation based on the maintenance of Eurocentric and patriarchal systems in the processes of knowledge construction. This work begins with the initial assumptions of feminist archaeology and gender archaeology, among which we find criticism of androcentrism, women’s professional practice in archaeology, and, finally, the construction and generation of historical female referents.

Este texto reflexiona sobre el papel de las mujeres en la práctica profesional de la arqueología, en el ámbito de la gestión, y en la visibilización de sus aportes a la disciplina, y cómo esta realidad, a menudo, no se refleja en la práctica laboral. El objetivo es visibilizar y reconocer una contribución femenina históricamente ignorada en el ámbito público y profesional. El análisis se centra en la Comunidad Autónoma de Euskadi (CAE), explorando la participación de las mujeres en la arqueología profesional, la academia y su visibilidad en el discurso histórico. Finalmente, propone líneas de actuación para aumentar la presencia de mujeres en la arqueología, como visibilizar su trabajo, reconocer sus aportes y crear referentes femeninos en la enseñanza de la historia y la ciencia, así como la necesidad de una transformación de la disciplina desde los parámetros del feminismo. ABSTRACT: This text aims to analyse and promote reflection on the role of women in professional archaeological practice in particular, but in management and in academia also. In the same way, we will approach the presence of women in academia and studies related to Archaeology and History, as a space where women are present and whose reality can sometimes be contradictory to what professional practice reflects. In short, this is a review of the conquest of the public working space, or perhaps we should say, of a way of showing and recognising a presence that has always been there, but which has been overlooked or which has not been made visible. This article begins with a general introduction to the subject from a more general and geographically focused perspective. However, the analysis presented is an approach to the documented reality in the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country or Euskadi (CAE) both in terms of participation in development Led Archaeology, a situation which has its own characteristics when compared with other areas, presence in academia, as well as visibility in historical discourse. We will end by proposing a series of lines of action in different aspects in order to promote the presence of women in archaeological practice and science. All of that, based on the visibility of the work carried out, recognition of their contributions and the need to generate references through teaching, which will reinforce the visibility of women in history in general and women in science in particular, as well as the need for a of the discipline within the parameters of feminism.