Unearthing Childhood - Young Lives in Prehistory

Informationen zum Autor Robin Derricourt is an Honorary Associate Professor in the School of Humanities at the University of New South Wales and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities Klappentext Prehistoric children can be seen in footprints and finger daubs, in images painted on rocks and pots, in the signs of play and the evidence of first attempts to learn practical crafts. Readers in archeology and those with interests in childhood will gain new perspectives from this survey of the deep past. Zusammenfassung Prehistoric children can be seen in footprints and finger daubs! in images painted on rocks and pots! in the signs of play and the evidence of first attempts to learn practical crafts. Readers in archeology and those with interests in childhood will gain new perspectives from this survey of the deep past. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface1 Understanding: the deep past of childhood2 Being: birth, motherhood and infancy3 Growing: the child in its family4 Feeding: weaning, eating and health5 Wearing: clothing, adornment and body shaping6 Learning: knowledge and skills7 Playing: fun, games, toys and culture8 Fighting: conflict and violence9 Dying I: death and burial in forager societies10 Dying II: death and burial in Old World farming societies 11 Progressing: the future of childhood's deep pastIndex of placesGeneral index

Product details

• Authors: Robin Derricourt
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2018
• EAN: 9781526128089
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-2808-9
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); prehistory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, Social and cultural anthropology, Archaeology by period / region, Prehistoric archaeology