Ages and Abilities : : The Stages of Childhood and their Social Recognition in Prehistoric Europe and Beyond / / Katharina Rebay-Salisbury, Doris Pany-Kucera.

• Superior document: Childhood in the Past Monograph Series
• TeilnehmendeR: Rebay-Salisbury, Katharina; Pany-Kucera, Doris
• Place / Publishing House: [s.l.] : : Archaeopress Publishing,, 2020.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Childhood in the Past Monograph Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (265 p.)

Ages and Abilities explores social responses to childhood stages from the late Neolithic to Classical Antiquity in Central Europe and the Mediterranean and includes cross-cultural comparison to expand the theoretical and methodological framework. By comparing osteological and archaeological evidence...

Table of Contents

• Chapter 1: Introduction. Children's developmental stages from biological, anthropological and archaeological perspectives
• Katharina Rebay-Salisbury and Doris Pany-Kucera
• Chapter 2: Weaponry and children: technological and social trajectories
• Kathryn A. Kamp and John C. Whittaker
• Chapter 3: How and when life is considered to have begun in past societies: child burials at the cemetery of Durankulak, north-east Bulgaria
• Ekaterina Alexandrova Stamboliyska-Petrova
• Chapter 4: Inherited rank and own abilities: children in Corded Ware and Bell Beaker communities of the Traisen Valley, Lower Austria
• Daniela Kern
• Chapter 5: The little ones in the Early Bronze Age: foetuses, newborns and infants in the Únětice Culture in Bohemia, Moravia and Slovakia
• Lucie Vélová, Katarína Hladíková and Klaudia Daňová
• Chapter 6: Ages and life stages at the Middle Bronze Age cemetery of Pitten, Lower Austria
• Katharina Rebay-Salisbury, with contributions by Patrik Galeta, Walther Parson, Doris Pany-Kucera, Michaela Spannagl-Steiner and Christina Strobl
• Chapter 7: Children in the territory of Western Hungary during the Early and Middle Bronze Age: the recognition of developmental stages in the past
• Eszter Melis, Tamás Hajdu, Kitti Köhler and Viktória Kiss
• Chapter 8: Childhood in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age in the southern Carpathian Basin
• Daria Ložnjak Dizdar and Petra Rajić Šikanjić
• Chapter 9: Mycenaean childhood: Linear B script set against archaeological artefacts
• Beata Kaczmarek
• Chapter 10: Dumu.gaba, ṣiḫru e Guruš/sal.Tur.tur
• Nadia Pezzulla
• Chapter 11: Identifying social and cultural thresholds in sub-adult burials
• Francesca Fulminante
• Chapter 12: Child personhood in Iron Age Veneto: insights from micro-scale contextual analysis and burial taphonomy
• Elisa Perego, Veronica Tamorri and Rafael Scopacasa
• Chapter 13: The recognition of children and child-specific burial practices at the necropolis of Spina, Italy
• Anna Serra
• Chapter 14: Greek children and their wheel carts on Attic Vases
• Hanna Ammar
• Chapter 15: Teeny-tiny little coffins: from the embrace of the mother to the embrace of Hades in ancient Greek society
• Alexandra Syrogianni
• Chapter 16: Pueri nascentes: rituals, birth and social recognition in Ancient Rome
• Irene Mañas Romero and José Nicolás Saiz López.