To browse Academia. From preface: "It is the children, childhood and the archaeology of childhood that are the main themes explored in this book. During the two-day workshop sessions, the participants presented the results of their research on children in various past societies from different chronological periods and areas of Europe. The meeting was accompanied by a lively discussion on the possibilities of cognitive archaeological research on the life of children in the past.
The results of lectures presented and discussions held are presented in papers included in this volume. Katarina Hladikova, Perception of children in Villanovan period in southern Etruria Jan Turek, Children in the burial rites of complex societies. Reading gender identities. Contribution to the study of the development of children in the past. In this article the author presents the ceramic assemblage of 49 children-related artefacts excavated in Gdansk, Poland.
The technological and shape analyses are the basis for preliminary conclusions about the origins of the examined objects. The investigated collection is subject to further studies of data in social, economic and ethnical background, although some reflections on it are present in this research paper. In recent decades archaeology has focused increasingly on various insufficiently studied social aspects such as gender, women, children, and childhood. This has led to the creation of a new branch of archaeology: the archaeology of childhood, which studies various questions about children and their life, status, and role in society.
Inspired by these new developments, this paper offers an analysis of child burials in the Middle and Late Iron Age 5thth century mortuary landscape, i. The paper proposes the hypothesis that age in the period under study played an important role and therefore not every child presumably infants was buried in the common cemetery.
Older children were fully incorporated in the belief practices of the common society and as prepared for the afterlife as the adults. The article touches upon some of these developments, and which show the points to have relevance today.
