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

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Author:   Güner Coşkunsu
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.227kg
ISBN:  

9781438458052

ISBN 10:   1438458053
Pages:   338
Publication Date:   01 December 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Illustrations Tables Acknowledgments Introduction: Children as Archaeological Enigma Guner Coskunsu Part I. Theorizing (In)visibility, Legitimacy, and Biases in Archaeological Approaches to Children and Childhood 1. The Devil's Advocate or Our Worst Case Scenario: The Archaeology of Childhood Without Any Children Jane Eva Baxter 2. Making Children Legitimate: Negotiating the Place of Children and Childhoods in Archaeological Theory Kathryn Kamp 3. Method and Theory for an Archaeology of Age Scott R. Hutson 4. Bodies and Encounters: Seeing Invisible Children in Archaeology Joanna Sofaer 5. Modern Biases, Hunter-Gatherers' Children: On the Visibility of Children in Other Cultures Nurit Bird-David Part II. Interdisciplinary and Archaeological Approaches to Studying Children and Childhood in the Past 6. Grown Up: Adult Height Dimorphism as an Archive of Living Conditions of Boys and Girls in Prehistory Eva Rosenstock 7. Placing Children in Society: Using Ancient DNA to Identify Sex and Kinship of Child Skeletal Remains, and Implications for Gender and Social Organization Keri A. Brown 8. Metaphors for Understanding Children and Their Role in Culture Jack A. Meacham Part III. Case Studies in the Archaeology of Childhood 9. Children of the Ice Age Paul G. Bahn 10. Children in the Anthropomorphic Imagery of the European and Near Eastern Neolithic Peter F. Biehl 11. From Playthings to Sacred Objects? Household Enculturation Rituals, Figurines, and Plastering Activities at Neolithic Catalhoyuk, Turkey Sharon K. Moses 12. The Ends and Means of Childhood: Mourning Children in Early Greece Susan Langdon 13. The Children's Cemetery of Lugnano in Teverina, Umbria: Hierarchy, Magic, and Malaria David Soren 14. The Age of Consent: Children and Sexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome Jeannine Diddle Uzzi 15. ""A Place for Everything and Everything in Its Place"": The Cultural Context of Late Victorian Toys Kyle Somerville Part IV. Commentaries 16. Theoretical Issues in Investigating Childhood Frank Hole 17. Grubby Little Fingerprints: A Commentary on the Visibility of Childhood Traci Ardren Contributors Index"

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...this book emphasizes the point that childhood research in archaeology may benefit from considering the relationships between infants and children with adults, rather than categorizing childhood as a separate category ... [it is] representative of true interdisciplinary approaches to understanding the child in archaeology. - Childhood in the Past

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Guner Coskunsu is Assistant Professor of Archaeology at the Mardin Artuklu University, Turkey.

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