The archaeology of childhood has grown over the past decade and a half as a vibrant field
of specialized interest within archaeology as a whole. A thematic treatment of the literature …

Bodies intrigue us. They promise windows into the past that other archaeological finds
cannot by bringing us literally face to face with history. Yet'the body'is also highly contested …

The first edition of The Archaeology of Childhood has been credited by many as launching
an entire new area of scholarship in archaeology. This second edition, published 17 years …

Parenting in England is the first study of the world of parenting in late Georgian England.
The author, Joanne Bailey, traces ideas about parenthood in a Christian society that was …

Toys–objects that we can recognise and confidently assert were toys, either through specific
association with children, or through comparison with objects that we'know'were toys in …

Hasanlu V provides archaeologists with a new, more accurate chronology of Hasanlu, the
largest and arguably the most important archaeological site in the Gadar River Valley of …

Ritual in archaeology is usually explored as an undifferentiated kind of esoteric or
'irrational'action, opposed to utilitarian or 'rational'—a characterization that clearly …

This article investigates the shaping of place through memory and emotion. In particular it
explores how, by engaging with particular kinds of materials, people texture locales in ways …

In recent years, the commemoration of children and infants has assumed increasingly
expressive and conspicuous forms at Danish cemeteries, setting their grave plots apart from …

In their 1995 Latin American Antiquity article, Haviland and Haviland argued that the people
who produced much of the graffiti of Tikal were depicting visions from altered states of …