The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Childhood

Edited by Sally Crawford, Dawn Hadley, and Gillian Shepherd

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Contributions from experts in the field
Covers a wide geographical and chronological range to aid comparison of childhood across time and between different cultures
Presents new material
Extensively illustrated, including original images to help illustrate the key points

The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Childhood

Edited by Sally Crawford, Dawn Hadley, and Gillian Shepherd

Description

Real understanding of past societies is not possible without including children, and yet they have been strangely invisible in the archaeological record. Compelling explanation about past societies cannot be achieved without including and investigating children and childhood.

However marginal the traces of children's bodies and bricolage may seem compared to adults, archaeological evidence of children and childhood can be found in the most astonishing places and spaces. The archaeology of childhood is one of the most exciting and challenging areas for new discovery about past societies. Children are part of every human society, but childhood is a cultural construct. Each society develops its own idea about what a childhood should be, what children can or should do, and how they are trained to take their place in the world. Children also play a part in creating the archaeological record itself.

In this volume, experts from around the world ask questions about childhood - thresholds of age and growth, childhood in the material culture, the death of children, and the intersection of the childhood and the social, economic, religious, and political worlds of societies in the past.

The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Childhood

Edited by Sally Crawford, Dawn Hadley, and Gillian Shepherd

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Introductions: The History and Impact of the Archaeology of Childhood
1. The Archaeology of Childhood: The Birth and Development of A Discipline, Sally Crawford, Dawn M. Hadley, and Gillian Shepherd
2. The History of the Archaeology of Childhood, Grete Lillehammer
Defining Children and Childhood
3. Techniques For Identifying the Age and Sex of Children at Death, Jo Buckberry
4. The Study of Growth in Skeletal Populations, Simon Mays
5. Cultural Models of Stages in the Life Course, M. Annette Grove And David F. Lancy
6. Infants and Mothers: Linked Lives and Embodied Life Courses, Rebecca Gowland
Children, Family, and Households
7. Prehistoric Households and Childhood: Growing Up in a Daily Routine, Brigitte Roder
8. Archaeological and Epigraphic Evidence For Infancy in the Roman World, Maureen Carroll
9. Roman Household Organization, Penelope Allison
10. Material Culture and Childhood In Harappan South Asia, Supriya Varma
11. Working-Class Childhood In Nineteenth-Century New York City, Rebecca Yamin
Learning, Socialization, and Training
12. Learning the Tools of Survival in the Thule and Dorset Cultures of Arctic Canada, Robert W. Park
13. Educating Victorian Children: A Material Culture Perspective from Cambridge, Craig Cessford
14. Above and Below the Surface: Environment, Work, Death, and Upbringing In Sixteenth to Seventeenth-Century Sweden, Anne Ingvarsson Sundstrom, Jan Mispelaere, and Ylva Backstrom
15. Boys at Sea: An Osteological and Historical Analysis of Ships' Boys In the Late Eighteenth to Early Nineteenth-Century British Royal Navy, Ceridwen Boston
16. Training Children for Work In the Nineteenth Century: Material Culture Approaches, Vicky Crewe
Self, Identity, and Community
17. Portrait of a Palaeolithic Family: Art, Ornamentation, and Children's Relationship with their Community, Jessica Cooney
18. Care and Socialization of Children in the Bronze Age, Margarita Sanchez Romero
19. Representations of Children in Ancient Greece, Olympia Bobou
20. Children's Graffiti in Pompeii and Herculaneum, Katherine V. Huntley
21. Vecino Archaeology and the Politics of Play in New Mexico, B. Sunday Eiselt
22. Children and Migration, Dawn M. Hadley
Health, Disease, and Environment
23. The Developing Forager: Reconstructing Childhood Activity Patterns from Long Bone Cross-Sectional Geometry, Lesley Harrington And Benjamin Osipov
24. Feeding Infants from the Iron Age to the Early Medieval Period in Britain, Rebecca C. Redfern
25. Disease and Trauma in the Children from Roman Britain, Mary E. Lewis
26. Infant Head Shaping in the First Millennium AD, Susanne Hakenbeck
27. The Contribution of Stable Isotope Analysis to The Study of Childhood Movement and Migration, Katie A. Hemer and Jane A. Evans
Death, Memory, and Meaning
28. Where are the Children? Locating Children in Funerary Space in the Ancient Greek World, Gillian Shepherd
29. Miniature Adults? Children in Ancient Egyptian Iconography, Nicola Harrington
30. Roman Sarcophagi and Children, Janet Huskinson
31. Child Sacrifice in the Ancient Andes, Deborah Blom
32. Miniature Adults? The Representation of Children and Childhood in Medieval Art, Sophie Oosterwijk
33. Children's Burial Grounds (Cillini) in Ireland: New Insights into an Early Modern Religious Tradition, Colm J. Donnelly and Eileen M. Murphy
Seeing, Presenting, and Interpreting the Archaeology of Childhood
34. Gazing on the Past (and Being Photobombed by Children): Archaeology, The Early Years Of Modern Photography, and the Visible/Invisible Child, Sally Crawford and Katharina Ulmschneider
35. From The Archaeology Of Childhood to Modern Children Visiting Archaeological Museums: An Italian Perspective, Claudia Lambrugo
36. Material Culture, Museums, Movies, and Make Believe: Representing Medieval Childhood, Mark A. Hall
37. Presenting Children from the Distant Past in Museums, Sharon Brookshaw

The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Childhood

Edited by Sally Crawford, Dawn Hadley, and Gillian Shepherd

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Author Information

Sally Crawford, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford,Dawn Hadley, Professor of Medieval Archaeology, Department of Archaeology, University of Sheffield,Gillian Shepherd, Director, A.D. Trendall Research Centre for Ancient Mediterranean Studies, La Trobe University

Sally Crawford is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford. A Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, she is widely published on Anglo-Saxon archaeology and the archaeology of childhood and is a co-founder and current President of the Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past.

Dawn Hadley is Professor of Medieval Archaeology at the University of Sheffield. Dawn has published extensively on Anglo-Saxon and Viking-Age archaeology, and on the archaeology of identity. She is also is a Committee member of the Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past, and Honorary Secretary of the Society for Medieval Archaeology.

Gillian Shepherd is the Director of the A.D. Trendall Research Centre for Ancient Mediterranean Studies and Lecturer in Ancient Mediterranean Studies at La Trobe University. She has published extensively on the archaeology of Greek Sicily and South Italy, especially with regard to burial customs, childhood, and identity. She is also founding and former Committee member of the Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past, and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.

Contributors:

Penelope Allison, Professor of Archaeology, University of Leicester (United Kingdom)
Ylva Backstrom, Doctoral Student, Lund University (Sweden)
Deborah Blom, Associate Professor, University of Vermont (United States of America)
Olympia Bobou, Affiliated Lecturer, University of Cambridge (United Kingdom)
Ceridwen Boston, Freelance Osteoarchaeologist (United Kingdom)
Sharon Brookshaw, Research Administrator, University of Gloucestershire (United Kingdom)
Jo Buckberry, Senior Lecturer in Biological Anthropology, University of Bradford (United Kingdom)
Maureen Carroll, Professor of Roman Archaeology, University of Sheffield (United Kingdom)
Craig Cessford, Cambridge Archaeological Unit, University of Cambridge (United Kingdom)
Jessica Cooney, Independent Researcher (United Kingdom)
Sally Crawford, Senior Research Fellow, University of Oxford (United Kingdom)
Vicky Crewe, Learning and Teaching Services, University of Sheffield (United Kingdom)
Colm J. Donnelly, Director of the Centre for Archaeological Fieldwork and Senior Research Fellow, Queen's University Belfast (United Kingdom)
B. Sunday Eiselt, Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Southern Methodist University (United States of America)
Jane A. Evans, Research Scientist, British Geological Survey (United Kingdom)
Rebecca Gowland, Senior Lecturer in Archaeology, Durham University (United Kingdom)
M. Annette Grove, Coordinator, Learning Community, Utah State University (United States of America)
Dawn M. Hadley, Professor of Medieval Archaeology, University of Sheffield (United Kingdom)
Susanne Hakenbeck, Lecturer in Historical Archaeology, University of Cambridge (United Kingdom)
Mark A. Hall, Curator of Archaeology at Perth Museum and Art Gallery (United Kingdom)
Lesley Harrington, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Alberta (Canada)
Nicola Harrington, Honorary Research Associate, University of Sydney (Australia)
Katie A. Hemer, Lecturer in Bioarchaeology, University of Sheffield (United Kingdom)
Katherine V. Huntley, Assistant Professor of Ancient and Medieval History, Boise State University (United States of America)
Janet Huskinson, Visiting Research Fellow, Open University (United Kingdom)
Anne Ingvarsson Sundstrom, Chief Curator at Uppsala University Museum, Uppsala University (Sweden)
Claudia Lambrugo, Senior Researcher in Classical Archaeology, University of Milan (Italy)
David F. Lancy, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, Utah State University (United States of America)
Mary E. Lewis, Associate Professor in Biological Anthropology, University of Reading (United Kingdom)
Grete Lillehammer, Museum of Archaeology, University of Stavanger (Norway)
Simon Mays, Human Skeletal Biologist, Historic England (United Kingdom)
Jan Mispelaere, Post-Doctoral Researcher, Uppsala University (Sweden)
Eileen M. Murphy, Senior Lecturer in Archaeology, Queen's University Belfast (United Kingdom)
Sophie Oosterwijk, Honorary Research Fellow, University of St Andrews (United Kingdom)
Benjamin Osipov, Doctoral Student, University of Alberta (Canada)
Robert W. Park, Professor of Anthropology, University of Waterloo (Canada)
Rebecca C. Redfern, Curator of Human Osteology, Museum of London (United Kingdom)
Brigitte Roder, Professor of Prehistory and Early History, University of Basel (Switzerland)
Margarita Sanchez Romero, Professor of Prehistory, University of Granada (Spain)
Gillian Shepherd, Director, A.D. Trendall Centre Research Centre for Ancient Mediterranean Studies, La Trobe University (Australia)
Katharina Ulmschneider, Senior Research Fellow, Worcester College, University of Oxford (United Kingdom)
Supriya Varma, Associate Professor of Archaeology, Jawaharlal Nehru University (India)
Rebecca Yamin, Principal Archaeologist, John Milner Associates, Inc. (United States of America)

The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Childhood

Edited by Sally Crawford, Dawn Hadley, and Gillian Shepherd

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Reviews and Awards

"I highly recommend this book as a central reference for students and researchers in the disciplines of archaeology, bioarchaeology and the history of childhood. The volume is meticulously edited, with chapters written in accessible language, and extensively illustrated ... it is a must-have. This volume is a brilliant showcase for the diversity and richness of the field of the archaeology of childhood." -- SiÃ¢n Halcrow, Antiquity

"Overall, the Handbook is a long-awaited compendium that lives up to expectations. The scholarship is first rate ... this volume is a must for anyone involved with or simply interested in childhood archaeology, and will remain a core text for years to come." -- Benjamin Hinson, Desert Archaeology

"The extensive book is an excellent addition to the Oxford Handbook series, and highly recommended reading for anyone researching the subject." -- Lucia Marchini, Current Archaeology