Sexuality and Cultural Reproduction in Prehistoric Eurasia

Sexuality as a social and psychological construct varies within the socio-cultural traditions in the history of the human society. The absence of prehistoric written records does not allow us to explore in depth its genesis, so we have to use models and hypotheses based on fragmented and indirect data and on comparative studies. In this session we will attempt to explore the following problems: (1) The role of sexuality as a psychological and social construct in Eurasian Prehistory; (2) The interrelation between sexuality, biological reproduction and cultural reproduction in Eurasian Prehistory; (3) How the most recent research on sexuality, sex and brain and especially on the psychology of sexuality can be applied to Prehistory, in particular to archaic Eurasia; (4) To understand the construction of sexual identity and its relation to gender and social identity in Prehistoric Eurasia; (5) To detect traces of different types of sexuality and gender relations in the archaeological record of Prehistoric Eurasia; (6) To understand how the concepts of sex, sexuality and gender influenced the aesthetics and semiotics of the early Eurasian art.