Gender Differences In Ancient Egyptian Pyramids

Burials in the past can tell us about gender in a manner of ways as long as we are able to interpret them without bias. Instead of projecting modern views of gender on to the past, we must let the evidence that the past presents guide our interpretation of what gender used to mean in the prehistoric. Important things to consider with graves include grave goods, the dress and positions of those who are buried, the amount of burials, the appearance of the grave or the tomb, and the differences in skeletal evidence.
Grave goods are integral to understanding the construction of the past. They can show differences in cultures, what was important to the people of various cultures, across the world based on the types of goods and materials that are placed in graves. The quantity and quality of grave goods can be a strong indicator for various interpretations about the person in the grave including position, leadership, and status. Leadership and status are often visible within burials as evidenced by what materials are buried with an individual. Those of higher status are buried with more goods …show more content…
The Egyptian pyramids took a great deal of time and money in order to build and were began years in advance before a Pharaoh passed. They held this power and wanted to exemplify that power for centuries, millennia to come and so they built the pyramids as their burial mounds. We can interpret gender quite easily out of these types of tombs. Who held the power to create tombs like this? Pharaohs were primarily male and those pharaohs who were female did not have tombs that resembled these. This could be interpreted as a lack of power for females in the society, though this could be the result of any number of other reasons rather than these women not having the power or resources to construct these monstrous tombs. Perhaps the female Pharaohs don’t feel the need to show off their power quite as