ISBN:
9780813049830
Language:
English
Pages:
XII, 270 S.
,
Ill., graph. Darst.
Series Statement:
Bioarchaeological interpretations of the human past: local, regional, and global perspectives
DDC:
305.231
Keywords:
Child development History
;
Human remains (Archaeology)
;
Children Thompson
;
Alfonso-Durruty
;
Crandall
;
Larsen
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Kind
;
Archäobiologie
Abstract:
This volume proposes to examine nuanced issues of childhood such social identity, economic and social contribution, and health issues in the larger community. The authors use both very localized and very global data in their studies
Note:
Includes index
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Introduction: Children in prehistory: now seen, now heard
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Death and the special child: three examples from the ancient midwest
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Beyond victims: exploring the identity of sacrificed infants and children at La Cueva de los Muertos Chiquitos, Durango, Mexico (AD 571-1168)
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Chinchorro mortuary practices on infants: Northern Chile Archaic period (BP 7000-3600)
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The "other" burials at Torre de Palma: childhood as special death in a Medieval Portuguese site
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Part II. The desecrated child ; The bioarchaeology of the homicide of infants and children
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Sense or sensationalism? Approaches to explaining high perinatal mortality in the past
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A disciplined childhood in nineteenth-century new york city: a social bioarchaeology of the subadults of the Spring Street Presbyterian Church
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Part III. The working child ; Childhood, colonialism, and nation-building: child labor in Virginia and New York
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Little helping hands: insights from Punta Teatinos, Chile
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Children of the working class: environmental marginality and child health at Black Mesa, Arizona (AD ; 900-1150)
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Part IV. The cultured child ; Surviving childhood: health, identity, and personhood in the prehistoric American Southwest
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Tracing Tiwanaku childhoods: a bioarchaeological study of age and social identities in Tiwanaku Society
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Conclusion. Little bodies, big voices: the lives of children in the past
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