Children, death and burial : archaeological discourses / edited by Eileen Murphy and Melie Le Roy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Murphy, Eileen M., editor.

Le Roy, Mélie, editor.

Series:

Childhood in the past monograph series ; Volume 5.

Childhood in the Past Monograph Series ; Volume 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Burial--Europe--History.

Burial.

Excavations (Archaeology)--Europe.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Children--Europe--Social conditions.

Children.

Infants--Europe--Social conditions.

Infants.

Children--Death.

Infants--Death.

Europe--Antiquities.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (278 pages) : illustrations, map.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, [England] ; Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : Oxbow Books, 2017.

Summary:

Children, Death and Burials assembles a panorama of studies with a focus on juvenile burials; the 16 papers have a wide geographic and temporal breadth and represent a range of methodological approaches. All have a similar objective in mind, however, namely to understand how children were treated in death by different cultures in the past; to gain insights concerning the roles of children of different ages in their respective societies and to find evidence of the nature of past adult-child relationships and interactions across the life course. The contextualisation and integration of the data collected, both in the field and in the laboratory, enables more nuanced understandings to be gained in relation to the experiences of the young in the past. A broad range of issues are addressed within the volume, including the inclusion/exclusion of children in particular burial environments and the impact of age in relation to the place of children in society. Child burials clearly embody identity and 'the domestic child', 'the vulnerable child', 'the high status child', 'the cherished child', 'the potential child', 'the ritual child' and the 'political child', and combinations thereof, are evident throughout the narratives. Investigation of the burial practices afforded to children is pivotal to enlightenment in relation to key facets of past life, including the emotional responses shown towards children during life and in death, as well as an understanding of their place within the social strata and ritual activities of their societies.An important new collection of papers by leading researchers in funerary archaeology, examining the particular treatment of juvenile burials in the past. In particular focuses on the expression of varying status and identity of children in the funerary archaeological record as a key to understanding the place of children in different societies.

Contents:

Introduction: archaeological children, death and burial / Eileen Murphy and Mélie Le Roy

How were infants considered at death during the Neolithic period in France? / Mélie Le Roy

Perinatal death and cultural buffering in a Neolithic community at Çatalhöyük / Belinda Tibbetts

Burying children and infants at Kadruka 23: new insights into juvenile identity and disposal of the dead in the Nubian Neolithic / Emma Maines, Pascal Sellier, Philippe Chambon and Olivier Langlois

Children's burials in the Eneolithic Cemetery of Sultana-Malu Rosu, Romania / Catalin Lazar, Ionela Craciunescu, Gabriel Vasile and Mihai Florea

Late Chalcolithic skeletal remains and associated mortuary practices from Çamlibel Tarlasi in Central Anatolia / Jayne-Leigh Thomas

Processed babies: early Bronze Age infant burials from Bulgarian Thrace / Kathleen McSweeney and Krum Bacvarov

"Missing infants": giving life to aspects of childhood in Mycenaean Greece via intramural burials / Katerina Kostanti

Bronze Age child burials in the Southern Trans-Urals (21st-15th centuries cal. BC) / Natalia Berseneva

Juvenile burial and age as a social category in funerary contexts of pre- and protopalatial Crete / Nathalja Calliauw

Geto-Dacian child burials in the second Iron Age / Valeriu Sîrbu and Diana-Crina Davînca

Out of the cradle and into the grave: the children of Anglo-Saxon great Chesterford, Essex, England / Christine Cave and Marc Oxenham

Emotional act, superstition or ritual?: evidence from child burials in the Medieval period: a case study from St. Clemens Churchyard, Copenhagen, Denmark / Jane Jark Jensen

Interpreting cultural and biological markers of stress and status in Medieval subadults from England / Heidi Dawson

Atypical burial practice and juvenile age-at-death in later Medieval Gaelic Ireland: the evidence from Ballyhanna, Co. Donegal / Eileen Murphy

Interring the "deserving" child: the archaeology of the deaths and burials of children at the Kilkenny Workhouse during the Great Famine in Ireland, 1845-52 / Jonny Geber.

Notes:

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

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781785707155

1785707159

9781785707131

1785707132

OCLC:

994206222