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Archaeology of Childhood - Interdisciplinary Perspectives on an Archaeological Enigma

English · Hardback

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Critical interdisciplinary examination of archeaology's approach to childhood in prehistory.
Children existed in ancient times as active participants in the societies in which they lived and the cultures they belonged to. Despite their various roles, and in spite of the demographic composition of ancient societies where children comprised a large percentage of the population, children are almost completely missing in many current archaeological discourses. To remedy this, The Archaeology of Childhood aims to instigate interdisciplinary dialogues between archaeologists and other disciplines on the notion of childhood and children and to develop theoretical and methodological approaches to analyze the archaeological record in order to explore and understand children and their role in the formation of past cultures. Contributors consider how the notion of childhood can be expressed in artifacts and material records and examine how childhood is described in literary and historical sources of people from different regions and cultures. While we may never be able to reconstruct every last aspect of what childhood was like in the past, this volume argues that we can certainly bring children back into archaeological thinking and research, and correct many erroneous and gender-biased interpretations.


About the author

Güner Coşkunsu is Assistant Professor of Archaeology at the Mardin Artuklu University, Turkey.

Product details

Authors Gnner (EDT) Coskunsu, Guner Coskunsu
Assisted by Co& (Editor), Guner Coskunsu (Editor)
Publisher State University of New York Press
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 31.12.2015
 
EAN 9781438458052
ISBN 978-1-4384-5805-2
No. of pages 338
Series Suny Series, the Institute for
Suny Series, the Institute for
SUNY series, The Institute for European and Mediterranean Archaeology Distinguished Monograph Series
Subject Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history

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