| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 273 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Childhood in the past monograph series ; volume 5 |
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Childhood in the past monograph series ; v. 5.
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| Contents |
Introduction: archaeological children, death and burial / Eileen Murphy and Mélie Le Roy -- How were infants considered at death during the Neolithic period in France? / Mélie Le Roy -- Perinatal death and cultural buffering in a Neolithic community at Çatalhöyük / Belinda Tibbetts -- Burying children and infants at Kadruka 23: new insights into juvenile identity and disposal of the dead in the Nubian Neolithic / Emma Maines, Pascal Sellier, Philippe Chambon and Olivier Langlois -- Children's burials in the Eneolithic Cemetery of Sultana-Malu Rosu, Romania / Catalin Lazar, Ionela Craciunescu, Gabriel Vasile and Mihai Florea -- Late Chalcolithic skeletal remains and associated mortuary practices from Çamlibel Tarlasi in Central Anatolia / Jayne-Leigh Thomas -- Processed babies: early Bronze Age infant burials from Bulgarian Thrace / Kathleen McSweeney and Krum Bacvarov -- "Missing infants": giving life to aspects of childhood in Mycenaean Greece via intramural burials / Katerina Kostanti -- Bronze Age child burials in the Southern Trans-Urals (21st-15th centuries cal. BC) / Natalia Berseneva -- Juvenile burial and age as a social category in funerary contexts of pre- and protopalatial Crete / Nathalja Calliauw -- Geto-Dacian child burials in the second Iron Age / Valeriu Sîrbu and Diana-Crina Davînca -- Out of the cradle and into the grave: the children of Anglo-Saxon great Chesterford, Essex, England / Christine Cave and Marc Oxenham -- Emotional act, superstition or ritual?: evidence from child burials in the Medieval period: a case study from St. Clemens Churchyard, Copenhagen, Denmark / Jane Jark Jensen -- Interpreting cultural and biological markers of stress and status in Medieval subadults from England / Heidi Dawson -- Atypical burial practice and juvenile age-at-death in later Medieval Gaelic Ireland: the evidence from Ballyhanna, Co. Donegal / Eileen Murphy -- Interring the "deserving" child: the archaeology of the deaths and burials of children at the Kilkenny Workhouse during the Great Famine in Ireland, 1845-52 / Jonny Geber |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 08, 2017) |
| Subject |
Burial -- Europe -- History
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Excavations (Archaeology) -- Europe
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Children -- Europe -- Social conditions
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Infants -- Europe -- Social conditions
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Children -- Death.
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Infants -- Death.
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology.
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Antiquities
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Burial
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Children -- Death
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Children -- Social conditions
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Excavations (Archaeology)
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Infants -- Death
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Infants -- Social conditions
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| SUBJECT |
Europe -- Antiquities.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045632
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| Subject |
Europe
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Murphy, Eileen M., editor, author
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Le Roy, Mélie, editor, author
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| LC no. |
2017033890 |
| ISBN |
9781785707131 |
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1785707132 |
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9781785707155 |
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1785707159 |
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