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

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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. Front Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Table of Contents Foreword The Osteology of Infancy and Childhood: misconceptions and potential Subadult or subaltern? Children as serial categories Etruscan Infants: Children’s Cemeteries at Tarquinia, Italy as indicators of an age of Transition Thrown Out with the Bathwater or Properly Buried? Neonate and Infant Skeletons in a Settlement Context on the Dürrnberg bei Hallein, Austria The Children in the Bog Parenting, child loss and the cilliní of Post-Medieval Ireland The Disposal of Dead Infants in Anglo-Saxon England from c.500-1066: an overview Where have all the flowers gone? Bronze Age children’s burials in South East England: initial thoughts Ble mae’r babanod? (Where are the babies?): Infant burial in Early Medieval Wales Childhood in Roman Egypt: Bioarchaeology of the Kellis 2 Cemetery, Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt Constituting Childhood: Identity, Conviviality and Community at Windmill Hill The Divine Power of Childhood in Ancient Mesoamerica ‘What Must be Done’: Ideology and the Children of Sand Canyon Pueblo Living Children