The archaeological study of childhood
Subtitle: interdisciplinary perspectives on an archaeological enigma
By: edited by Güner Coskunsu
Series: SUNY series, The Institute for European and Mediterranean archaeology distinguished monograph series
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781438458052; 9781438458069
Subjects: Prehistoric Children; Children; History; Infants; Human remains (Archaeology); Social archaeology; Household archaeology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Children as archaeological enigma / Güner Coskunsu; title: Section 1. Theorizing (in)visbility, legitimacy, and biases in archaeological approaches to children and childhood; title: The devil's advocate or our worst case scenario : the archaeology of childhood without any children / Jane Eva Baxter; title: Making children legitimate : negotiating the place of children and childhoods in archaeological theory / Kathryn Kamp; title: Considerations for method and theory in the archaeology of age / Scott Hutson; title: Bodies and encounters : seeing invisible children in archaeology / Joanna Sofaer; title: Modern biases, hunter-gatherers' children : on the visibility of children in other cultures / Nurit-Bird-David; title: Section 2. Interdisciplinary and archaeological approaches to studying children and childhood in the past; title: Grown up : adult height dimorphism as an archive of living conditions of boys and girls in prehistory / Eva Rosenstock; title: Placing children in society : using ancient DNA to identify sex and kinship of child skeletal remains, and implications for gender and social organisation / Keri Brown; title: Metaphors for understanding children and their role in culture / Jack Meacham; title: Section 3. Case studies in the archaeology of childhood; title: Children of the Ice Age / Paul Bahn; title: Children in the anthropomorphic imagery of the European and Near Eastern Neolithic / Peter Biehl; title: From playthings to sacred objects? : household enculturation rituals, figurines and plastering activities at Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Turkey / Sharon Moses; title: The ends and means of childhood : mourning children in early Greece / Susan Langdon; title: The Children's Cemetery of Lugnano in Teverina, Umbria : hierarchy, magic and malaria / David Soren; title: Ethnicity and sexuality in Roman imperial relief : reconstructing the pederastic gaze / Jeannine Diddle Uzzi; title: "A place for everything and everything in its place" : the cultural context of late Victorian toys / Kyle Somerville; title: Section 4commentaries; title: Theoretical issues in investigating childhood / Frank Hole; title: Grubby little fingerprints : a commentary on the visibility of childhood / Traci Ardren.