Children and Childhood in Bioarchaeology
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Anthropometry
Archaeology
Bioarchaeology
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Breastfeeding
Bronze Age
Burial of Children
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Childhood
Children and Childhood in Bioarchaeology
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Health
Human remains
Infant and child feeding
Interdisciplinary
Life
Life Course
Medieval
Mortuary
Neolithic
Non breast milk substitutes
Patrick Beauchesne
Peru
Prehistoric
Research
Roman
Sabrina Agarwal
Skeletal Biology
Social conditions
Stable Isotope Analysis
Stress
Weaning
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- ISBN 9780813056807
- Weight: 760g
- Dimensions: 155 x 233mm
- Publication Date: 05 Jun 2018
- Publisher: University Press of Florida
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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As researchers become increasingly interested in studying the lives of children in antiquity, this volume argues for the importance of a collaborative biocultural approach. Contributors draw on fields including skeletal biology and physiology, archaeology, sociocultural anthropology, pediatrics, and psychology to show that a diversity of research methods is the best way to illuminate the complexities of childhood.
Contributors and case studies span the globe with locations including Egypt, Turkey, Italy, England, Japan, Peru, Bolivia, Canada, and the United States. Time periods range from the Neolithic to the Industrial Revolution. Leading experts in the bioarchaeology of childhood investigate breastfeeding and weaning trends of the past 10,000 years; mortuary data from child burials; skeletal trauma and stress events; bone size, shape, and growth; plasticity; and dietary histories.
Emphasizing a life course approach and developmental perspective, this volume's interdisciplinary nature marks a paradigm shift in the way children of the past are studied. It points the way forward to a better understanding of childhood as a dynamic lived experience both physically and socially.
Contributors and case studies span the globe with locations including Egypt, Turkey, Italy, England, Japan, Peru, Bolivia, Canada, and the United States. Time periods range from the Neolithic to the Industrial Revolution. Leading experts in the bioarchaeology of childhood investigate breastfeeding and weaning trends of the past 10,000 years; mortuary data from child burials; skeletal trauma and stress events; bone size, shape, and growth; plasticity; and dietary histories.
Emphasizing a life course approach and developmental perspective, this volume's interdisciplinary nature marks a paradigm shift in the way children of the past are studied. It points the way forward to a better understanding of childhood as a dynamic lived experience both physically and socially.
Patrick Beauchesne is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan-Dearborn.
Sabrina C. Agarwal, associate professor of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, is coeditor of Social Bioarchaeology. She is also co-editor-in-chief of the journal Bioarchaeology International.
Sabrina C. Agarwal, associate professor of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, is coeditor of Social Bioarchaeology. She is also co-editor-in-chief of the journal Bioarchaeology International.
