Children, Childhood and Society

Product Description This interdisciplinary volume gathers together papers on the history and archaeology of childhood with a wide geographical and chronological remit. There is a broad methodological overview, followed by papers including one on early Bronze Age funerary ritual, one on childhood in the Ancient Near East, papers on prehistoric and Archaic Greece, an overview of research on Roman childhood and a paper on sexual attitudes to slave children, one on early Iceland and one on Anglo-Saxon burial ritual. About the Author Dr Sally Crawford and Dr Katharina Ulmschneider are Senior Research Fellows at the Institute of Archaeology, Oxford. They are the leading experts on the life and works of the eminent Celtic Art scholar Professor Paul Jacobsthal.