Children and Childhood in Bioarchaeology (eBook)

Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the Human Past: Local, Regional, and Global Perspectives

Patrick Beauchesne, Sabrina C. Agarwal (Herausgeber)

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2018
412 Seiten
University Press of Florida (Verlag)
978-0-8130-5228-1 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

A volume in the series Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the Human Past: Local, Regional, and Global Perspectives, edited by Clark Spencer Larsen































Contributors: Sabrina C. Agarwal | Patrick Beauchesne | Tina Moffat | Tracy Prowse | Dan Temple | Marla Toyne | Haagen D. Klaus | Siân Halcrow | Raelene Inglis | Rebecca Gowland | Sophie L. Newman | Jessica Pearson | James H. Gosman | David A. Raichlen | Tim Ryan | Tosha L. Dupras | Lana J. Williams | Sandra M. Wheeler | Carl Henrik Langebaek Rueda | Melanie J. Miller

Autor

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.5.2018
• Reihe/Serie: Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the Human Past: Local, Regional, and Global Perspectives
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Agency • anthropometry • archaeology • Bioarchaeology • biocultural • Breastfeeding • Bronze Age • Burial of Children • Childhood • Children and Childhood in Bioarchaeology • Death • growth • 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
• ISBN-10: 0-8130-5228-9 / 0813052289
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8130-5228-1 / 9780813052281