The archaeological study of childhood

interdisciplinary perspectives on an archaeological enigma

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Güner Coskunsu
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The archaeological study of childhood: interdisciplinary perspectives on an archaeological enigma
2015, State University of New York Press
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Table of 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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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Albany
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SUNY series, The Institute for European and Mediterranean archaeology distinguished monograph series

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305.2309
Library of Congress
GN799.C38 A73 2015, GN799.C38A73 2015

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Pagination
pages cm.

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OL31057592M
ISBN 13
9781438458052, 9781438458069
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2014044284

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