Many of the objects we find as grave goods could have been worn on the individual’s body during their life and so we can understand them as evidence of how they might have presented their identity through dress and behaviour – certain objects are used in certain ways, so we can assume that a person buried with them performed certain activities. The important task of the archaeologist should be to identify patterned correlations between morphologically identifiable sex and the material culture expression of gender within a specific economic context.
