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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810916603321

Titolo

Children, death and burial : archaeological discourses / / edited by Eileen Murphy and Melie Le Roy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, [England] ; ; Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : , : Oxbow Books, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

1-78570-715-9

1-78570-713-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (278 pages) : illustrations, map

Collana

Childhood in the Past Monograph Series ; ; Volume 5

Disciplina

930.1

Soggetti

Burial - Europe - History

Excavations (Archaeology) - Europe

Children - Europe - Social conditions

Infants - Europe - Social conditions

Children - Death

Infants - Death

Europe Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: archaeological children, death and burial / Eileen Murphy and Mélie Le Roy -- How were infants considered at death during the Neolithic period in France? / Mélie Le Roy -- Perinatal death and cultural buffering in a Neolithic community at Çatalhöyük / Belinda Tibbetts -- Burying children and infants at Kadruka 23: new insights into juvenile identity and disposal of the dead in the Nubian Neolithic / Emma Maines, Pascal Sellier, Philippe Chambon and Olivier Langlois -- Children's burials in the Eneolithic Cemetery of Sultana-Malu Rosu, Romania / Catalin Lazar, Ionela Craciunescu, Gabriel Vasile and Mihai Florea -- Late Chalcolithic skeletal remains and associated mortuary practices from Çamlibel Tarlasi in Central Anatolia / Jayne-Leigh Thomas -- Processed babies: early Bronze Age infant burials from Bulgarian Thrace / Kathleen McSweeney and Krum Bacvarov -- "Missing



infants": giving life to aspects of childhood in Mycenaean Greece via intramural burials / Katerina Kostanti -- Bronze Age child burials in the Southern Trans-Urals (21st-15th centuries cal. BC) / Natalia Berseneva -- Juvenile burial and age as a social category in funerary contexts of pre- and protopalatial Crete / Nathalja Calliauw -- Geto-Dacian child burials in the second Iron Age / Valeriu Sîrbu and Diana-Crina Davînca -- Out of the cradle and into the grave: the children of Anglo-Saxon great Chesterford, Essex, England / Christine Cave and Marc Oxenham -- Emotional act, superstition or ritual?: evidence from child burials in the Medieval period: a case study from St. Clemens Churchyard, Copenhagen, Denmark / Jane Jark Jensen -- Interpreting cultural and biological markers of stress and status in Medieval subadults from England / Heidi Dawson -- Atypical burial practice and juvenile age-at-death in later Medieval Gaelic Ireland: the evidence from Ballyhanna, Co. Donegal / Eileen Murphy -- Interring the "deserving" child: the archaeology of the deaths and burials of children at the Kilkenny Workhouse during the Great Famine in Ireland, 1845-52 / Jonny Geber.