Reconstruction of Childhood in the Antiquities of Western Colchis: an Archaeologist’s and Pedagogue’s View of Artifacts and Ethnography
Journal: Stratum plus Archaeology and Cultural Anthropology
Year: 2023

According to paleodemographers, children in ancient and traditional societies accounted for at least half of the entire population. This was a necessary condition for the simple reproduction of the population. However, in archaeological terms, the remains of artifacts that testify to the children’s world, as a rule, are extremely poorly represented. In our article, we consider the very concept of childhood from the point of view of pedagogy, archaeology and ethnography, and also determine what i