The archaeology of childhood : interdisciplinary perspectives on an archaeological enigma

Weitere Verfasser: Coşkunsu, Güner
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2015.
Umfang/Format: xvii, 320 pages : ill. ; 26 cm.
Schriftenreihe: IEMA proceedings Volume 4
The Institute for European and Mediterranean Archaeology. Distinguished monograph series
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • 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