Archaeology of Childhood

Güner Coşkunsu is Assistant Professor of Archaeology at the Mardin Artuklu University, Turkey.

• IllustrationsTablesAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Children as Archaeological EnigmaGüner Coşkunsu Part I. Theorizing (In)visibility, Legitimacy, and Biases in Archaeological Approaches to Children and Childhood1. The Devil’s Advocate or Our Worst Case Scenario: The Archaeology of Childhood Without Any ChildrenJane Eva Baxter2. Making Children Legitimate: Negotiating the Place of Children and Childhoods in Archaeological TheoryKathryn Kamp3. Method and Theory for an Archaeology of AgeScott R. Hutson4. Bodies and Encounters: Seeing Invisible Children in ArchaeologyJoanna Sofaer5. Modern Biases, Hunter-Gatherers’ Children: On the Visibility of Children in Other CulturesNurit Bird-David Part II. Interdisciplinary and Archaeological Approaches to Studying Children and Childhood in the Past6. Grown Up: Adult Height Dimorphism as an Archive of Living Conditions of Boys and Girls in PrehistoryEva Rosenstock7. Placing Children in Society: Using Ancient DNA to Identify Sex and Kinship of Child Skeletal Remains, and Implications for Gender and Social OrganizationKeri A. Brown8. Metaphors for Understanding Children and Their Role in CultureJack A. Meacham Part III. Case Studies in the Archaeology of Childhood9. Children of the Ice AgePaul G. Bahn10. Children in the Anthropomorphic Imagery of the European and Near Eastern NeolithicPeter F. Biehl11. From Playthings to Sacred Objects? Household Enculturation Rituals, Figurines, and Plastering Activities at Neolithic Catalhoyuk, TurkeySharon K. Moses12. The Ends and Means of Childhood: Mourning Children in Early GreeceSusan Langdon13. The Children’s Cemetery of Lugnano in Teverina, Umbria: Hierarchy, Magic, and MalariaDavid Soren14. The Age of Consent: Children and Sexuality in Ancient Greece and RomeJeannine Diddle Uzzi15. "A Place for Everything and Everything in Its Place": The Cultural Context of Late Victorian ToysKyle SomervillePart IV. Commentaries16. Theoretical Issues in Investigating ChildhoodFrank Hole17. Grubby Little Fingerprints: A Commentary on the Visibility of ChildhoodTraci ArdrenContributorsIndex

"…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