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Title Tracing childhood : bioarchaeological investigations of early lives in antiquity / edited by Jennifer L. Thompson, Marta P. Alfonso-Durruty, and John J. Crandall.

Publication Info. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2014.

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Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Bioarchaeological interpretations of the human past: local, regional, and global perspectives
Bioarchaeological interpretations of the human past.
Summary Bioarchaeological studies of children have, until recently, centered on population data-driven topics like mortality rates and growth and morbidity patterns. This volume examines emerging issues in childhood studies, looking at historic and prehistoric contexts and framing questions about the nature and quality of children's lives. How did they develop their social identity? Were they economic actors in early civilizations? Does their health reflect the larger community? Comparing and contrasting field research from a variety of sites across Europe and the Americas, the contributors to this.
Contents Introduction: Children in prehistory: now seen, now heard / Jennifer L. Thompson, John J. Crandall, and Marta P. Alfonso-Durruty -- Part I. The chosen child -- Death and the special child: three examples from the ancient midwest / Della C. Cook, Andrew R. Thompson, and Amanda A. Rollins -- Beyond victims: exploring the identity of sacrificed infants and children at La Cueva de los Muertos Chiquitos, Durango, Mexico (AD 571-1168) / John J. Crandall and Jennifer L. Thompson -- Chinchorro mortuary practices on infants: Northern Chile Archaic period (BP 7000-3600) / Vivien G. Standen, Bernardo T. Arriaza, and Calogero M. Santoro -- The "other" burials at Torre de Palma: childhood as special death in a Medieval Portuguese site / Sarah Holt, Stacey Hallman, Mary Lucas Powell, and Maia M. Langley -- Part II. The desecrated child -- The bioarchaeology of the homicide of infants and children / Simon Mays -- Sense or sensationalism? Approaches to explaining high perinatal mortality in the past / Helen F. Gilmore and Siân E. Halcrow -- A disciplined childhood in nineteenth-century new york city: a social bioarchaeology of the subadults of the Spring Street Presbyterian Church / Meredith A.B. Ellis -- Part III. The working child -- Childhood, colonialism, and nation-building: child labor in Virginia and New York / Autumn Barrett -- Little helping hands: insights from Punta Teatinos, Chile / Marta P. Alfonso-Durruty and Jennifer L. Thompson -- Children of the working class: environmental marginality and child health at Black Mesa, Arizona (AD -- 900-1150) / Debra L. Martin, Jennifer L. Thompson, and John J. Crandall -- Part IV. The cultured child -- Surviving childhood: health, identity, and personhood in the prehistoric American Southwest / Ann M. Palkovich -- Tracing Tiwanaku childhoods: a bioarchaeological study of age and social identities in Tiwanaku Society / Deborah E. Blom and Kelly J. Knudson -- Conclusion. Little bodies, big voices: the lives of children in the past / Marta P. Alfonso-Durruty, Jennifer L. Thompson, and John J. Crandall.
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Subject Child development -- History.
Child development.
History.
Human remains (Archaeology)
Human remains (Archaeology)
Children -- History.
Children.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
Subject Children.
Added Author Thompson, Jennifer L., editor.
Alfonso-Durruty, Marta P., editor.
Crandall, John J., editor.
Other Form: Print version: Thompson, Jennifer L. Tracing Childhood. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2014 0813049830
ISBN 0813048869 (electronic book)
9780813048864 (electronic book)
9781306685375 (electronic book)
1306685370 (electronic book)
0813049830 (Cloth)
9780813049830 (Cloth)