The Oxford handbook of the archaeology of childhood

The Oxford handbook of the archaeology of childhood / edited by Sally Crawford, Dawn M. Hadley, and Gillian Shepherd.

Real understanding of past societies is not possible without including children, and yet they have been strangely invisible in the archaeological record. In this volume, experts from around the world investigate childhood in the past, showing why it is important to understand childhood, why differen...

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Other Authors: Crawford, Sally (Sally Elizabeth Ellen) (Editor), Hadley, D. M. (Dawn M.), 1967- (Editor), Shepherd, Gillian (Gillian B.) (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Series:Oxford handbooks.
Subjects:
To 1500
Children, Prehistoric.
Social archaeology.
Children > History > To 1500.
Children
Children, Prehistoric
Social archaeology
Electronic books.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • The archaeology of childhood : the birth and development of a discipline / Sally Crawford, Dawn M. Hadley, Gillian Shepherd
  • Material culture and childhood in Harappan South Asia / Supriya Varma
  • Working-class childhood in nineteenth-century New York City / Rebecca Yamin
  • Learning the tools of survival in the Thule and Dorset cultures of Arctic Canada / Robert W. Park
  • Educating Victorian children : a material culture perspective from Cambridge / Craig Cessford
  • Above and below the surface : environment, work, death, and upbringing in sixteenth- to seventeenth-century Sweden / Anne Ingvarsson Sundström, Jan Mispelaere, Ylva Bäckström
  • Boys at sea : an osteological and historical analysis of ships' boys in the late eighteenth- to early nineteenth-century British Royal Navy / Ceridwen Boston
  • Training children for work in the nineteenth century : material culture approaches / Vicky Crewe
  • Portrait of a palaeolithic family : art, ornamentation, and children's relationship with their community / Jessica Cooney
  • Care and socialization of children in the Bronze Age / Margarita Sánchez Romero
  • Representations of children in ancient Greece / Olympia Bobou
  • The history of the archaeology of childhood / Grete Lillehammer
  • Children's graffiti in Pompeii and Herculaneum / Katherine V. Huntley
  • Vecino archaeology and the politics of play in New Mexico / B. Sunday Eiselt
  • Children and migration / Dawn M. Hadley
  • The developing forager : reconstructing childhood activity patterns from long bone cross-sectional geometry / Lesley Harrington, Benjamin Osipov
  • Feeding infants from the Iron Age to the early medieval period in Britain / Rebecca C. Redfern
  • Disease and trauma in the children from Roman Britain / Mary E. Lewis
  • Infant head shaping in the first millennium AD / Susanne Hakenbeck
  • The contribution of stable isotope analysis to the study of childhood movement and migration / Katie A. Hemer, Jane A. Evans
  • Where are the children? Locating children in funerary space in the ancient Greek world / Gillian Shepherd
  • Miniature adults? Children in ancient Egyptian iconography / Nicola Harrington
  • Techniques for identifying the age and sex of children at death / Jo Buckberry
  • Roman sarcophagi and children / Janet Huskinson
  • Child sacrifice in the ancient Andes / Deborah Blom
  • Miniature adults? The representation of children and childhood in medieval art / Sophie Oosterwijk
  • Miniature adults? The representation of children and childhood in medieval art / Colm J. Donnelly, Eileen M. Murphy
  • Gazing on the past (and being photobombed by children) : archaeology, the early years of modern photography, and the visible/invisible child / Sally Crawford, Katharina Ulmschneider
  • From the archaeology of childhood to modern children visiting archaeological museums : an Italian perspective / Claudia Lambrugo
  • Material culture, museums, movies, and make believe : representing medieval childhood / Mark A. Hall
  • Presenting children from the distant past in museums / Sharon Brookshaw
  • The study of growth in skeletal populations / Simon Mays
  • Cultural models of stages in the life course / M. Annette Grove, David F. Lancy
  • Infants and mothers : linked lives and embodied life courses / Rebecca Gowland
  • Prehistoric households and childhood : growing up in a daily routine / Brigitte Röder
  • Archaeological and epigraphic evidence for infancy in the Roman world / Maureen Carroll
  • Roman household organization / Penelope Allison.

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