Ages and Abilities : The Stages of Childhood and their Social Recognition in Prehistoric Europe and Beyond / Katharina Rebay-Salisbury, Doris Pany-Kucera.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rebay-Salisbury, Katharina, editor.

Pany-Kucera, Doris, editor.

Series:

Childhood in the Past Monograph Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Ages and Abilities

Place of Publication:

[s.l.] : Archaeopress Publishing, 2020.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Ages and Abilities explores social responses to childhood stages from the late Neolithic to Classical Antiquity in Central Europe and the Mediterranean and includes cross-cultural comparison to expand the theoretical and methodological framework. By comparing osteological and archaeological evidence, as well as integrating images and texts, authors consider whether childhood age classes are archaeologically recognizable, at which approximated ages transitions took place, whether they are gradual or abrupt and different for girls and boys. Age transitions may be marked by celebrations and rituals; cultural accentuation of developmental stages may be reflected by inclusion or exclusion at cemeteries, by objects associated with childhood such as feeding vessels and toys, and gradual access to adult material culture. Access to tools, weapons and status symbols, as well as children's agency, rank and social status, are recurrent themes. The volume accounts for the variability in how a range of chronologically and geographically diverse communities perceived children and childhood, and at the same time, discloses universal trends in child development in the (pre-)historic past.

Contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction. Children's developmental stages from biological, anthropological and archaeological perspectives

Katharina Rebay-Salisbury and Doris Pany-Kucera

Chapter 2: Weaponry and children: technological and social trajectories

Kathryn A. Kamp and John C. Whittaker

Chapter 3: How and when life is considered to have begun in past societies: child burials at the cemetery of Durankulak, north-east Bulgaria

Ekaterina Alexandrova Stamboliyska-Petrova

Chapter 4: Inherited rank and own abilities: children in Corded Ware and Bell Beaker communities of the Traisen Valley, Lower Austria

Daniela Kern

Chapter 5: The little ones in the Early Bronze Age: foetuses, newborns and infants in the Únětice Culture in Bohemia, Moravia and Slovakia

Lucie Vélová, Katarína Hladíková and Klaudia Daňová

Chapter 6: Ages and life stages at the Middle Bronze Age cemetery of Pitten, Lower Austria

Katharina Rebay-Salisbury, with contributions by Patrik Galeta, Walther Parson, Doris Pany-Kucera, Michaela Spannagl-Steiner and Christina Strobl

Chapter 7: Children in the territory of Western Hungary during the Early and Middle Bronze Age: the recognition of developmental stages in the past

Eszter Melis, Tamás Hajdu, Kitti Köhler and Viktória Kiss

Chapter 8: Childhood in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age in the southern Carpathian Basin

Daria Ložnjak Dizdar and Petra Rajić Šikanjić

Chapter 9: Mycenaean childhood: Linear B script set against archaeological artefacts

Beata Kaczmarek

Chapter 10: Dumu.gaba, ṣiḫru e Guruš/sal.Tur.tur

Nadia Pezzulla

Chapter 11: Identifying social and cultural thresholds in sub-adult burials

Francesca Fulminante

Chapter 12: Child personhood in Iron Age Veneto: insights from micro-scale contextual analysis and burial taphonomy

Elisa Perego, Veronica Tamorri and Rafael Scopacasa

Chapter 13: The recognition of children and child-specific burial practices at the necropolis of Spina, Italy

Anna Serra

Chapter 14: Greek children and their wheel carts on Attic Vases

Hanna Ammar

Chapter 15: Teeny-tiny little coffins: from the embrace of the mother to the embrace of Hades in ancient Greek society

Alexandra Syrogianni

Chapter 16: Pueri nascentes: rituals, birth and social recognition in Ancient Rome

Irene Mañas Romero and José Nicolás Saiz López.

Notes:

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781789697698

1789697697

OCLC:

1507694305