Children, childhood and society / edited by Sally Crawford, Gillian Shepherd.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Crawford, Sally (Sally Elizabeth Ellen)

Shepherd, Gillian (Gillian B.)

University of Birmingham. Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity.

Series:

BAR international series ; 1696.

IAA interdisciplinary series ; v. 1.

BAR international series ; 1696

IAA interdisciplinary series ; v. 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children--History.

Children.

History.

Children--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

iv, 106 pages : illustrations (partly color), maps ; 30 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Archaeopress, 2007.

Contents:

Children, childhood and society: an introduction / Sally Crawford and Gillian Shepherd

Past, present and future in the study of Roman childhood / Mary Harlow, Ray Laurence and Ville Vuolanto

The pitter-patter of tiny feet in clay: aspects of the liminality of childhood in the ancient Near East / Alasdair Livingstone

The child's cache at Assiros Toumba, Macedonia / Diana Wardle and K.A. Wardle

Transitions to adulthood in early Icelandic society / Chris Callow

Had they no shame? Martial, Statius and Roman sexual attitudes towards slave children / Niall McKeown

Vital resources, ideal images and virtual lives: children in Early Bronze Age funerary ritual / Paul Garwood

Companions, co-incidences or chattels? Children in the early Anglo-Saxon multiple burial ritual / Sally Crawford

Poor little rich kids? Status and selection in Archaic Western Greece / Gillian Shepherd.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1407301381

9781407301389

OCLC:

182850517