Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations xi
4. Tables xv
5. Acknowledgments xvii
6. Children as Archaeological Enigma 1
7. Theorizing (In)visibility, Legitimacy, and Biases in Archaeological Approaches to Children and Childhood
8. The Devil’s Advocate or Our Worst Case Scenario 19
9. Making Children Legitimate 37
10. Method and Theory for an Archaeology of Age 53
11. Bodies and Encounters 73
12. Modern Biases, Hunter-Gatherers’ Children 91
13. Interdisciplinary and Archaeological Approaches to Studying Children and Childhood in the Past
14. Grown Up 107
15. Placing Children in Society 129
16. Metaphors for Understanding Children and Their Role in Culture 149
17. Case Studies in the Archaeology of Childhood
18. Children of the Ice Age 167
19. Children in the Anthropomorphic Imagery of the European and Near Eastern Neolithic 189
20. From Playthings to Sacred Objects? 205
21. The Ends and Means of Childhood 217
22. The Children’s Cemetery of Lugnano in Teverina, Umbria 235
23. The Age of Consent 251
24. “A Place for Everything and Everything in Its Place” 275
25. Commentaries
26. Theoretical Issues in Investigating Childhood 295
27. Grubby Little Fingerprints 303
28. Contributors 313
29. Index 315