Tracing childhood [Texte imprimé] : bioarchaeological investigations of early lives in antiquity / edited by Jennifer L. Thompson, Marta P. Alfonso-Durruty, and John J. Crandall ; foreword by Clark Spencer Larsen

Notes bibliogr.

Introduction: Children in prehistory: now seen, now heard / Jennifer L. Thompson, John J. Crandall, and Marta P. Alfonso-Durruty -- Part I. The chosen child -- Death and the special child: three examples from the ancient midwest / Della C. Cook, Andrew R. Thompson, and Amanda A. Rollins -- Beyond victims: exploring the identity of sacrificed infants and children at La Cueva de los Muertos Chiquitos, Durango, Mexico (AD 571-1168) / John J. Crandall and Jennifer L. Thompson -- Chinchorro mortuary practices on infants: Northern Chile Archaic period (BP 7000-3600) / Vivien G. Standen, Bernardo T. Arriaza, and Calogero M. Santoro -- The "other" burials at Torre de Palma: childhood as special death in a Medieval Portuguese site / Sarah Holt, Stacey Hallman, Mary Lucas Powell, and Maia M. Langley -- Part II. The desecrated child -- The bioarchaeology of the homicide of infants and children / Simon Mays -- Sense or sensationalism? Approaches to explaining high perinatal mortality in the past / Helen F. Gilmore and Siân E. Halcrow -- A disciplined childhood in nineteenth-century new york city: a social bioarchaeology of the subadults of the Spring Street Presbyterian Church / Meredith A. B. Ellis -- Part III. The working child -- Childhood, colonialism, and nation-building: child labor in Virginia and New York / Autumn Barrett -- Little helping hands: insights from Punta Teatinos, Chile / Marta P. Alfonso-Durruty and Jennifer L. Thompson -- Children of the working class: environmental marginality and child health at Black Mesa, Arizona (AD -- 900-1150) / Debra L. Martin, Jennifer L. Thompson, and John J. Crandall -- Part IV. The cultured child -- Surviving childhood: health, identity, and personhood in the prehistoric American Southwest / Ann M. Palkovich -- Tracing Tiwanaku childhoods: a bioarchaeological study of age and social identities in Tiwanaku Society / Deborah E. Blom and Kelly J. Knudson -- Conclusion. Little bodies, big voices: the lives of children in the past / Marta P. Alfonso-Durruty, Jennifer L. Thompson, and John J. Crandall

This volume proposes to examine nuanced issues of childhood such social identity, economic and social contribution, and health issues in the larger community. The authors use both very localized and very global data in their studies

The publication of this book has been funded in part by a grant from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas