  early infanticidal childrearing is a term used in the study of psychohistory that refers to infanticide in paleolithic,decapitated skeletons of hominid children have been found with evidence of cannibalism. see e.g.,  pre-historical, and historical hunter-gatherer tribes or societies. "early" means early in history or in the cultural development of a society, not to the age of the child. "infanticidal" refers to the high incidence of infants killed when compared to modern nations. the model was developed by lloyd demause within the framework of psychohistory as part of a seven-stage sequence of childrearing modes that describe the development attitudes towards children in human culturesthe emotional life of nations (op. cit.), chapter 7, part 2, "childhood and cultural evolution". the word "early" distinguishes the term from late infanticidal childrearing, identified by demause in the more established, agricultural cultures up to the ancient world. ==the model== this model is a psychological concept that aims to understand anthropological data, especially from such societies as the yolngu of australia, the gimi, wogeo, bena bena, and bimin-kuskusmin of papua new guinea, the raum, the ok, and the kwanga, based on observations by gÃ©za rÃ³heim, lia leibowitz, robert c. suggs, milton diamond, herman heinrich ploss, gilbert herdt, robert j. stoller, l. l. langness, and fitz john porter poole, among others. while anthropologists and psychohistorians do not dispute the data, they dispute its significan
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