Landscapes of Childhood: Bodies, Places and Material Culture

Romero, Margarita Sánchez

doi:10.1080/17585716.2017.1305080

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“…Even among archaeologists who study childhood this perception had to be challenged—initial research on play, for instance, focused on this as a training for the real world to come (e.g. Baxter 2005a,c; Kamp 2001), while more recent work argues that play is an important part of the present community, forming an arena for challenge/questioning and a potential locus for change (Lancy 2015; Sánchez Romero 2017) as well as seeing childhood as just one element in a person's longer story of becoming (Hinson 2018). It is also the case cross-culturally that children can be involved in many productive areas within societies (Baxter 2005c), from active labour to care of younger children to producing change (Hinson 2018).…”

Section: Childhood and The Bronze Agementioning

confidence: 99%

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Seeing Children in Prehistory: A View from Bronze Age Ireland

Haughton

2021

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Despite growing strength in recent decades, an archaeology of childhood has often been overlooked by those studying prehistory. This is concerning because communities are enlivened by their children, and conversations with and about children often provide a critical arena for the discussion of aspects of societies which prehistorians are comfortable addressing, such as social structure, identity and personhood. Through an exploration of childhood as expressed in the Earlier Bronze Age burials from Ireland, this article demonstrates that neither written sources, artistic depictions nor toys are necessary to speak of children in the past. Indeed, an approach which tacks between scales reveals subtle trends in the treatment of children which speak to wider shared concerns and allows a reflection on the role of children in prehistory.

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Section: Childhood and The Bronze Agementioning

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“…For prehistoric periods, this interest has been more subdued (though see e.g. Derricourt 2018; McLaren 2004; 2011; Sánchez Romero 2017; 2018). This is particularly curious given the attention paid by prehistoric archaeologists to issues of social structure, identity and personhood.…”

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Seeing Children in Prehistory: A View from Bronze Age Ireland

Haughton

2021

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“…However, by no means do I imply that archaeologists should define childhood on strictly biological terms, or that 15 years constitutes a universal cut-off between childhood and adulthood. In the last three decades, archaeologists have emphasized the cultural specificity of childhood (Baxter 2005;Kamp 2015;Lillehammer 2010;Sánchez Romero 2017). In addition, there is also a growing awareness of naively applying Western biochronological categorizations of children, despite their usefulness to the organization of raw data (Lewis 2011).…”

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“…Sánchez Romero (2017, 27–8) has recently highlighted the importance of paying attention to temporal dynamics when analysing the incidence of children within cemeteries. Working with the sample of 31 funerary sites, I analysed the trends in mean and standard deviation (SD) of child rates in community cemeteries.…”

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Power, Personhood and Changing Emotional Engagement with Children's Burial during the Egyptian Predynastic

Barba¹

2020

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Archaeological analyses of child funerary remains have often revolved around discussions of ascribed status and demographic trends. Other social and spatial dimensions of child burial are often left unexplored. This article introduces a novel perspective, through the analysis of child burials in Predynastic Egypt. My analysis focuses on the changing rates and spatial distribution of child burials in community necropoleis, with special attention to how their placement was used to renegotiate power relationships, and perhaps even concepts of personhood, in Predynastic society. The importance of children's funerals for creating of a sense of community through attachment to place is also considered. Criticizing analyses that rely on quantitative data to the exclusion of other factors, I emphasize the contribution of childhood, practice theory, emotions and personhood for the study of social complexity. My arguments point towards significant changes in the emotional dimension of children's funerary practices experienced during the later fourth millennium bc, and links these transformations to processes of state formation in Egypt.

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“…The papers included in this volume are a good example of the feasibility, relevance, and versatility of considering children in archaeological interpretations and narratives. This is a consolidated field of research which has proved highly productive across wide-ranging topics (Sánchez Romero, 2017; Crawford, Hadley & Shepherd, 2018) and which not only enhances our knowledge about the societies of the past but also improves the discipline of archaeology with its continuous theoretical and methodological challenges.…”

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Eileen Murphy and Melié Le Roy, eds. Children, Death, and Burial: Archaeological Discourses (Society for the Study of Past Childhood Monograph Series 5, Oxford & Haverton, Oxbow Books, 2017, ix and 273 pp., 71 b/w illustr., 37 tables, pbk, ISBN: 978-1-785-70712-4)

Romero

2019

Eur. j. archaeol

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Landscapes of Childhood: Bodies, Places and Material Culture

Cited by 25 publications

References 61 publications

Seeing Children in Prehistory: A View from Bronze Age Ireland

Seeing Children in Prehistory: A View from Bronze Age Ireland

Power, Personhood and Changing Emotional Engagement with Children's Burial during the Egyptian Predynastic

Eileen Murphy and Melié Le Roy, eds. Children, Death, and Burial: Archaeological Discourses (Society for the Study of Past Childhood Monograph Series 5, Oxford & Haverton, Oxbow Books, 2017, ix and 273 pp., 71 b/w illustr., 37 tables, pbk, ISBN: 978-1-785-70712-4)

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