Small adults or big kids? : exploring archaeological and bioarcheological approaches to adolescence / edited by Creighton Avery, Dana Thacher.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Avery, Creighton, editor.

Thacher, Dana, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human remains (Archaeology).

Adolescence--History.

Adolescence.

Physical anthropology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (195 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2025.

Summary:

This book explores the meaning of adolescence, a critical period of the life course, through the analysis of material culture, historical documents, skeletal remains, isotope analysis, and other lines of evidence. By considering the implications for archaeologists and biological anthropologists, this book investigates the lived experiences of adolescents in the past to further our understanding of past societies.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface

Introduction. The (Bio)Archaeology of Adolescence / Creighton Avery, Dana Thacher

Chapter 1. Adolescence in the European Upper Paleolithic: Are There Temporal and Spatial Trends? / Jennifer French, April Nowell

Chapter 2. From Childhood to Adulthood in Iberia During the Bell Beaker Period (2500-2000 cal. BC) / Ana M. Herrero Corral

Chapter 3. A Tale of Two Cities: Exploring the Biological and Social Transformations of Adolescence in the Roman Empire / Creighton Avery

Chapter 4. Being and Becoming: The Archaeology of Adolescence in the Ancient Andes / Sarah I. Baitzel, Bridget C. Bey, Allisen C. Dahlstedt

Chapter 5. Viking Age Adolescence: An Osteoarchaeological Assessment of Puberty in a Gotlandic Viking Age Community / Marieke Ivarsson-Aalders

Chapter 6. Crime, Punishment, and Adolescent Wrongdoers in Early Medieval England / Dawn Hadley

Chapter 7. The Body and Gendered Ideology as Expressed Through Adolescent Commemoration in Victorian and Edwardian England / Dana Thacher

Chapter 8. Transitional Youths: Defining "Adolescence" in Nineteenth-Century New York City Through Skeletal Remains / Meredith Ellis

Conclusion. The (Bio)Archaeology of Adolescence: Challenges and Opportunities / Kathryn Kamp

Final Remarks

Index

Other Format:

Print version: Avery, Creighton Small Adults or Big Kids?

ISBN:

9781836952893

OCLC:

1550454046