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- Summary
- A central theme of this volume is that future work on the lives of children in antiquity should be built on a strong foundation of biocultural research that draws from, and integrates more successfully, multiple sub-disciplines, including skeletal biology and physiology, archaeology, socio-cultural anthropology.
- Series Statement
- Bioarchaeological interpretations of the human past: local, regional, and global perspectives
- Uniform Title
- Children and Childhood in Bioarchaeology (Online)
- Bioarchaeological interpretations of the human past.
- Book collections on Project MUSE.
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- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Contents
- Introduction: Excavating childhood from the skeletal record / Patrick Beauchesne and Sabrina C. Agarwal -- The biocultural study of childhood in the past -- The bioarchaeology of childhood: theoretical development in the field / Raelene M. Inglis and Sin E. Halcrow -- Biocultural influences of total versus exclusive breastfeeding: stable isotope evidence of European and Asian trends for the last 10,000 years / Jessica Pearson -- Biocultural and bioarchaeological approaches to infant and young child feeding in the past / Tina Moffat and Tracy Prowse -- Life, death, and burial of children on the north coast of Peru: an integrative and interpretive bioarchaeological perspective (650 b.c. - A.D. 1750) / Haagen Klaus -- A childhood of violence: a bioarchaeological comparison of mass death assemblages from ancient Peru / J.M. Toyne -- Approaches to life history and the lifecourse in teeth and bone -- Human transitions: current perspectives on skeletal development / James H. Gosman, David A. Raichlen and Timothy M. Ryan -- Exploring linear enamel hypoplasia as an embodied product of childhood stress in late/final Jomon period foragers using incremental microstructures of enamel / Daniel H. Temple -- Dietary histories: tracing food consumption practices from childhood through adulthood using stable isotope analysis / Melanie J. Miller, Sabrina C. Agarwal and Carl H. Langebaek Rueda -- Children of the revolution: childhood health inequalities and the life course during industrialization of the 18th and 19th centuries in England / Rebecca Gowland and Sophie Newman -- Bioarchaeological analyses of children and childhood from the Kellis 2 Cemetery, Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt / Sandra Wheeler, Lana Williams and Tosha Dupras.
- OCLC
- ssj0002002300
- Title
Children and Childhood in Bioarchaeology [electronic resource] / edited by Patrick Beauchesne and Sabrina C. Agarwal ; foreword by Clark S. Larsen.
- Imprint
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2018. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
- Series
Bioarchaeological interpretations of the human past: local, regional, and global perspectives
Bioarchaeological interpretations of the human past.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Note
Description based on print version record.
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Larsen, Clark Spencer.
Agarwal, Sabrina C.
Beauchesne, Patrick.
Project Muse.
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2017032674