Facing the Cypriot past -- Setting the scene : gender and domestic space -- Working actors : gender, technology and labor -- Performing gender : figurines, ritual and social identity -- Invisible characters : children and adolescents -- Endings : gender and mortuary ritual -- Denouement : themes and threads -- Epilogue : Cypriot archaeology, who tells the story? -- Cypriot prehistory : a brief overview -- Gazetteer of major prehistoric sites in Cyprus.