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The Oxford handbook of the archaeology of childhood

Crawford, Sally (Sally Elizabeth Ellen), editor, Hadley, D. M. (Dawn M.), 1967- editor, Shepherd, Gillian (Gillian B.), editor

Overview

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.00However 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.

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Subject: Social archaeology. / Children History To 1500. / Children, Prehistoric.
• ISBN: 9780199670697, 0199670692

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
GN482.O94 2018	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE