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Title Children, death and burial : archaeological discourses / edited by Eileen Murphy and Mélie Le Roy.

Publication Info. Oxford ; Havertown, PA : Oxbow Books, 2017.

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 273 pages).
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Series Childhood in the past monograph series ; volume 5
Childhood in the past monograph series ; v. 5.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: archaeological children, death and burial / Eileen Murphy and Mélie Le Roy -- How were infants considered at death during the Neolithic period in France? / Mélie Le Roy -- Perinatal death and cultural buffering in a Neolithic community at Çatalhöyük / Belinda Tibbetts -- Burying children and infants at Kadruka 23: new insights into juvenile identity and disposal of the dead in the Nubian Neolithic / Emma Maines, Pascal Sellier, Philippe Chambon and Olivier Langlois -- Children's burials in the Eneolithic Cemetery of Sultana-Malu Rosu, Romania / Catalin Lazar, Ionela Craciunescu, Gabriel Vasile and Mihai Florea -- Late Chalcolithic skeletal remains and associated mortuary practices from Çamlibel Tarlasi in Central Anatolia / Jayne-Leigh Thomas -- Processed babies: early Bronze Age infant burials from Bulgarian Thrace / Kathleen McSweeney and Krum Bacvarov -- "Missing infants": giving life to aspects of childhood in Mycenaean Greece via intramural burials / Katerina Kostanti -- Bronze Age child burials in the Southern Trans-Urals (21st-15th centuries cal. BC) / Natalia Berseneva -- Juvenile burial and age as a social category in funerary contexts of pre- and protopalatial Crete / Nathalja Calliauw -- Geto-Dacian child burials in the second Iron Age / Valeriu Sîrbu and Diana-Crina Davînca -- Out of the cradle and into the grave: the children of Anglo-Saxon great Chesterford, Essex, England / Christine Cave and Marc Oxenham -- Emotional act, superstition or ritual?: evidence from child burials in the Medieval period: a case study from St. Clemens Churchyard, Copenhagen, Denmark / Jane Jark Jensen -- Interpreting cultural and biological markers of stress and status in Medieval subadults from England / Heidi Dawson -- Atypical burial practice and juvenile age-at-death in later Medieval Gaelic Ireland: the evidence from Ballyhanna, Co. Donegal / Eileen Murphy -- Interring the "deserving" child: the archaeology of the deaths and burials of children at the Kilkenny Workhouse during the Great Famine in Ireland, 1845-52 / Jonny Geber.
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Subject Burial -- Europe -- History.
Burial.
Europe.
History.
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Europe.
Excavations (Archaeology)
Children -- Europe -- Social conditions.
Children.
Social conditions.
Infants -- Europe -- Social conditions.
Infants.
Europe -- Antiquities.
Antiquities.
Children -- Death.
Children -- Death.
Infants -- Death.
Infants -- Death.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
Subject Children.
Added Author Murphy, Eileen M., editor, author.
Le Roy, Mélie, editor, author.
Other Form: Print version: Children, death and burial. Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2017 9781785707124 (DLC) 2017015743
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