Series statement from jacket. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The archaeology of childhood: the birth and development of a discipline / Sally Crawford, Dawn M. Hadley, and Gillian Shepherd -- The history of the archaeology of childhood / Grete Lillehammer -- Techniques for identifying the age and sex of children at death / Jo Buckberry -- The study of growth in skeletal populations / Simon Mays -- Cultural models of stages in the life course / M. Annette Grove and David F. Lancy -- Infants and mothers: linked lives and embodied life courses / Rebecca Gowland -- Prehistoric households and childhood: growing up in a daily routine / Brigitte Röder -- Archaeological and epigraphic evidence for infancy in the Roman world / Maureen Carroll -- Roman household organization / Penelope Allison -- Material culture and childhood in Harappan South Asia / Supriya Varma -- Working-class childhood in the Nineteenth-century New York City / Rebecca Yamin -- Learning the tools of survival in the Thule and Dorset cultures of Arctic Canada / Robert W. Park -- Educating Victorian children: a material culture perspective from Cambridge, England / Craig Cessford -- Above and below the surface: environment, work death, and upbringing in Sixteenth-to Seventeenth-century Sweden / Anne Ingvarsson, Jan Mispelaere, and Ylva Bäckström -- Boys at sea: an osteological and historical analysis of ships' boys in the late Eighteenth-to early Nineteenth-century British Royal Navy / Ceridwen Boston -- Training children for work in the Nineteenth Century: material culture approaches / Vicky Crewe -- Portrait of a Palaeolithic family: art, ornamentation, and children's relationship with their community / Jessica Cooney Williams -- Care and socialization of children in the European Bronze Age / Margarita Sánchez Romero -- Representations of children in Ancient Greece / Olympia Bobou -- Children's graffiti in Roman Pompeii and Herculaneum / Katherine V. Huntley -- Vecino archaeology and the politics of play in New Mexico, USA / B. Sunday Eiselt -- Children and migration / Dawn M. Hadley -- The developing forager: reconstructing childhood activity patterns from Long Bone cross-sectional geometry / Lesley Harrington and Benjamin Osipov -- Feeding infants from the Iron Age to the Early Medieval Period in Britain / Rebecca C. Redfern -- Disease and trauma in the children from Roman Britain / Mary E. Lewis -- Infant head shaping in Eurasia in the First Millennium AD / Susanne Hakenbeck -- The contribution of stable isotope analysis to the study of childhood movement and migration / Katie A. Kemer and Jane A. Evans -- Where are the children? Locating children in funerary space in the Ancient Greek world / Gillian Shepherd -- A world without play? Children in Ancient Egyptian art and iconography / Nicola Harrington -- Roman sarcophagi and children / Janet Huskinson -- Child sacrifice in the Ancient Andes: power and sociopolitical dynamics in antiquity / Deborah E. Blom -- Adult appearances? The representation of children and childhood in medieval art / Sophie Oosterwijk -- Children's burial grounds (cillíní) in Ireland: new insights into an early modern religious tradition / Colm J. Donnelly and Eileen M. Murphy -- Gazing on the past (and being photobombed by children): archaeology, the early years of modern photography, and the visible/invisible child / Sally Crawford and Katharina Ulmschneider -- From the archaeology of childhood to modern children visiting archaeological museums: an Italian perspective / Claudia Lambrugo -- Material culture, museums, movies, and make believe: representing medieval childhood / Mark A. Hall -- Presenting children from the distant past in museums / Sharon Brookshaw.
Summary:
Real understanding of past societies is not possible without including children, and yet they have been strangely invisible in the archaeological record. Compelling explanation about past societies cannot be achieved without including and investigating children and childhood.00However marginal the traces of children's bodies and bricolage may seem compared to adults, archaeological evidence of children and childhood can be found in the most astonishing places and spaces. The archaeology of childhood is one of the most exciting and challenging areas for new discovery about past societies. Children are part of every human society, but childhood is a cultural construct. Each society develops its own idea about what a childhood should be, what children can or should do, and how they are trained to take their place in the world. Children also play a part in creating the archaeological record itself.
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