Babies Reborn: Infant/Child Burials in Pre- and Protohistory: Session WS26

Papers from the session âBabies Reborn: Infant/Child Burials in Pre- and Protohistoryâ held at the XV UISPP World Congress, Lisbon, September 2006. Contents: 1) Early Deliberate Child Burials: Bioarchaeological insights from the Near Eastern Mediterranean (Anne-Marie Tillier); 2) The Gravettian Infant Burials from Krems-Wachtberg, Austria (Thomas Einwögerer, Marc HÃñndel, Christine Neugebauer-Maresch, Ulrich Simon, and Maria Teschler-Nicola); 3) Infant Burials in Pre-Pottery Neolithic Cyprus: Evidence from Khirokitia (Françoise Le Mort); 4) Suffer the Children: âVisualisingâ children in the archaeological record (Malcolm Lillie); 5) Ãatalhöyükâs Foundation Burials: Ritual child sacrifice or convenient deaths? (Sharon Moses); 6) Des morts peu fiables: les sþpultures nþolithiques dâimmatures en Grÿce (Maia Pomadÿre); 7) A Long Way to the West: Earliest jar burials in southeast Europe and the Near East (Krum Bacvarov); 8) Infant Jar Burials ¡ a ritual associated with early agriculture? (Estelle Orrelle); 9) The Jar Burials of the Chalcolithic âNecropolis⥠at Byblos (Gassia Artin); 10) Mobilier funþraire de nouveau-nþs et dâenfants: cas dâþtude de la Bulgarie (Yavor Boyadiev and Maria Gurova); 11) Late Neolithic Boys at the Gomolava Cemetery (Serbia) (Sofija StefanoviÄ); 12) Child Burials in Intramural and Extramural Contexts From the Neolithic and Chalcolithic of Romania: The problem of âinside⥠and âoutside⥠9Raluca KogÄŸlniceanu); 13) The Changing Relationship between the Living and the Dead: Child burial at the site of Kenan Tepe, Turkey (David Hopwood); 14) Childhood in Late Neolithic Vietnam: Bio-mortuary insights into an ambiguous life stage (Marc Oxenham, Hirofumi Matsumura, Kate Domett, Nguyen Kim Thuy, Nguyen Kim Dung, Nguyen Lan Cuong, Damien Huffer, and Sarah Muller); 15) A Social Aspect of Intramural Infant Burialsâ Analysis: The case of EBA Tell Yunatsite, Bulgaria (Tatiana Mishina); 16) Pre-Adult and Adult Burials of East Manych Catacomb Culture: Was infanticide really impossible? (Marina Andreeva); 17) Infant/Child Burials and Social Reproduction in the Bronze Age and Early Iron Age (c. 2100-800 BC) of Central Italy (Erik van Rossenberg); 18) A Biocultural Study of Children From Iron Age South Siberia (Eileen Murphy); 19) Infant Burials in Iron Age Britain (Belinda Tibbetts); 20) Special Burials, Special Buildings? An Anglo-Saxon perspective on the interpretation of infant burials in association with rural settlement structures (Sally Crawford); 21) Enfants Huaca: Sþpultures en Ollas des enfants nþs dans des circonstances spþciales selon les extirpateurs dâidolâtries andines du XVIIÿme siÿcle (Mariel López).