(Re)Thinking the Little Ancestor: New Perspectives on the Archaeology of Infancy and Childhood

Updated papers presented at the infancy and childhood conference at the University of Kent in 2005. From this conference the new Society the Study of Childhood in the Past (SSCIP) emerged. Contents: 1) The Osteology of Infancy and Childhood: Misconceptions and potential (Mary Lewis); 2) Subadult or Subaltern? Children as serial categories (Frederik Fahlander); 3) Etruscan Infants: Childrens cemeteries at Tarquinia, Italy, as indicators of an age of transition (Marshall J. Becker); 4) Thrown Out with the Bathwater or Properly Buried? Neonate and infant skeletons in a settlement context on the Durrnberg bei Hallein, Austria (Raimund Karl and Klaus Löcker); 5) The Children in the Bog (Grete Lillehammer); 6) Parenting, Childloss and the Cillini of post-Medieval Ireland (Eileen Murphy); 7) The Disposal of Dead Infants in Anglo-Saxon England from c.500-1066: An overview (Sally Crawford); 8) Where Have All The Flowers Gone? Bronze Age childrens burials in south-east England: Initial thoughts (Dawn McClaren); 9) Ble Maer Babanod? Infant burial in early Medieval Wales (Marion R. Page); 10) Childhood in Roman Egypt: Bioarchaeology of the Kellis 2 cemetery, Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt (Sandra M. Wheeler et al); 11) Constituting Childhood: Identity, conviviality and community at Windmill Hill (Oliver Harris ); 12) The Divine Power of Childhood in Ancient Mesoamerica (Traci Ardren); 13) What Must Be Done. Ideology and the children of Sand Canyon Pueblo (Cynthia Smith Bradley); 14) Living Children (Anna Kjellstrom et al).