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Title The archaeological study of childhood : interdisciplinary perspectives on an archaeological enigma / edited by Güner Coskunsu.

Publication Info. Albany : State University of New York Press, [2015]
©2015

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Series SUNY series, The Institute for European and Mediterranean archaeology distinguished monograph series
SUNY series, The Institute for European and Mediterranean archaeology distinguished monograph series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: Children as archaeological enigma / Güner Coskunsu -- Section 1. Theorizing (in)visbility, legitimacy, and biases in archaeological approaches to children and childhood -- The devil's advocate or our worst case scenario : the archaeology of childhood without any children / Jane Eva Baxter -- Making children legitimate : negotiating the place of children and childhoods in archaeological theory / Kathryn Kamp -- Considerations for method and theory in the archaeology of age / Scott Hutson -- Bodies and encounters : seeing invisible children in archaeology / Joanna Sofaer -- Modern biases, hunter-gatherers' children : on the visibility of children in other cultures / Nurit-Bird-David -- Section 2. Interdisciplinary and archaeological approaches to studying children and childhood in the past -- Grown up : adult height dimorphism as an archive of living conditions of boys and girls in prehistory / Eva Rosenstock -- 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 -- Metaphors for understanding children and their role in culture / Jack Meacham -- Section 3. Case studies in the archaeology of childhood -- Children of the Ice Age / Paul Bahn -- Children in the anthropomorphic imagery of the European and Near Eastern Neolithic / Peter Biehl -- From playthings to sacred objects? : household enculturation rituals, figurines and plastering activities at Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Turkey / Sharon Moses -- The ends and means of childhood : mourning children in early Greece / Susan Langdon -- The Children's Cemetery of Lugnano in Teverina, Umbria : hierarchy, magic and malaria / David Soren -- Ethnicity and sexuality in Roman imperial relief : reconstructing the pederastic gaze / Jeannine Diddle Uzzi -- "A place for everything and everything in its place" : the cultural context of late Victorian toys / Kyle Somerville -- Section 4commentaries -- Theoretical issues in investigating childhood / Frank Hole -- Grubby little fingerprints : a commentary on the visibility of childhood / Traci Ardren.
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Subject Children, Prehistoric.
Children, Prehistoric.
Children -- History.
Children.
History.
Infants -- History.
Infants.
Human remains (Archaeology)
Human remains (Archaeology)
Social archaeology.
Social archaeology.
Household archaeology.
Household archaeology.
Genre/Form History.
Electronic books.
Subject Children.
Added Author Coşkunsu, Güner, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Archaeological study of childhood 9781438458052 (DLC) 2014044284 (OCoLC)900332730
ISBN 9781438458069 electronic book
1438458061 electronic book
9781438458052
1438458053