The archaeology of childhood : interdisciplinary perspectives on an archaeological enigma / edited by Güner Coskunsu ; contributors, Traci Ardren [and eighteen others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Coşkunsu, Güner, editor.

Ardren, Traci, contributor.

Series:

Institute for European and Mediterranean Archaeology distinguished monograph series.

University of Buffalo. Institute for European and Mediterranean Archaeology. Conference. IEMA proceedings ; Volume 4.

Institute for European and Mediterranean Archaeology Distinguished Monograph Series

IEMA Proceedings ; Volume 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children, Prehistoric.

Children--History.

Children.

Infants--History.

Infants.

Human remains (Archaeology).

Social archaeology.

Household archaeology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (340 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany, New York : State University of New York Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Critical interdisciplinary examination of archeaology's approach to childhood in prehistory.

Contents:

Contents; Illustrations; Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction Children as Archaeological Enigma; A Brief Overview; Why are Children Missing in Archaeological Interpretations?; Why Do Archaeologists Need to Care about Ancient Children?; How Do We Rescue Children in Archaeological Records?; Structure of the Book; Acknowledgments; References Cited; Part I : Theorizing (In)visibility, Legitimacy, and Biases inArchaeological Approaches to Children and Childhood ; Chapter One: The Devil's Advocate or Our Worst Case Scenario: The Archaeology of Childhood Without Any Children

The Enduring Question of the (In)Visibility of ChildrenThe Conflation of Value and Visibility: A Brief Historical Perspective; The Visibility of Childhood at a Time of Disciplinary Advocacy; Our Worst Case Scenario? The Archaeology of Childhood without Children; Beyond "Miniature Adulthood": Childhood in Seventeenth-Century New England; Bodies and Identities: Reconfiguring Ideas of (In)Visibility in the Archaeological Study of Children; Identity and Personal Objects; Identity and Biographical Objects; References Cited

Chapter Two: Making Children Legitimate: Negotiating the Place of Children and Childhoods in Archaeological Theory The Inadequate Knowns; The Need for Archaeological Study of Children and Childhoods; The Need for Methodological Rigor; Texts and Art; The Skeletal Remains of Children Themselves; Burial Treatments and Grave Furnishings; Finger, foot, and hand prints; Artifacts; Space Use; The Role for Experiments, Ethnography, and Ethnoarchaeology; Conclusion; References Cited; Chapter Three: Method and Theory for an Archaeology of Age ; Introduction; Identity, Relationality, and Vision

EvidenceFigurines; Children as Figurine Makers; Figurines as toys; Figurines as Vehicles of Magic; Youthful Enchantment; Architecture ; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References Cited; Chapter Four: Bodies and Encounters: Seeing Invisible Children in Archaeology ; The Visibility and Invisibility of Children in Archaeology; Setting the In/Visibility Agenda; The Body in the Archaeology of Children; Material Culture, the Body, and an Archaeology of Ontogeny; Tracing Ontogeny in the Archaeological Record; Ontogeny 1: Learning to Make Things; Ontogeny 2: Learning to Use Things; Conclusion

References CitedChapter Five: Modern Biases, Hunter-Gatherers' Children: On the Visibility of Children in Other Cultures ; Do Infants Count as Children?; Are Children Passive and Dependent on Adults?; Are Children a Separate Class or Population?; Are "Parents-Children" a Symbol of Reproduction and Substitute Generations?; Conclusions; Notes; References Cited; Part II: Interdisciplinary and Archaeological Approaches to Studying Children and Childhood in the Past; Chapter Six: Grown Up: Adult Height Dimorphism as an Archive of Living Conditions of Boys and Girls in Prehistory

Adult Burials as an Archive of Living Conditions in Childhood

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781438458069

1438458061

OCLC:

934882985