Mujeres, discursos y arqueología. No hablamos de anécdotas sino de realidades

¿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.