Children, Death and Burial: Archaeological Discourses 9781785707124, 1785707124

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Children, Death and Burial: Archaeological Discourses
9781785707124, 1785707124

Author / Uploaded
Eileen Murphy (Editor)
Mélie Le Roy (Editor)

Categories
History
Archaeology

Table of contents :
Front Cover
Title
Dedication
Copyright
Contents
List of Contributors
1. Introduction: Archaeological Children, Death and Burial
2. How Were Infants Considered at Death during the Neolithic Period in France?
3. Perinatal Death and Cultural Buffering in a Neolithic Community at Çatalhöyük
4. Burying Children and Infants at Kadruka 23: New Insights into Juvenile Identity and Disposal of the Dead in the Nubian Neolithic
5. Children’s Burials in the Eneolithic Cemetery of Sultana-Malu Roşu, Romania
6. Late Chalcolithic Skeletal Remains and Associated Mortuary Practices from Çamlıbel Tarlası in Central Anatolia
7. Processed Babies: Early Bronze Age Infant Burials from Bulgarian Thrace
8. ‘Missing infants’: Giving Life to Aspects of Childhood in Mycenaean Greece via Intramural Burials
9. Bronze Age Child Burials in the Southern Trans-Urals (21st–15th Centuries cal. BC)
10. Juvenile Burial and Age as a Social Category in Funerary Contexts of Pre- and Protopalatial Crete
11. Geto-Dacian Child Burials in the Second Iron Age
12. Out of the Cradle and into the Grave: The Children of Anglo-Saxon Great Chesterford, Essex, England
13. Emotional Act, Superstition or Ritual? – Evidence from Child Burials in the Medieval period. A Case Study from St Clemens Churchyard, Copenhagen, Denmark
14. Interpreting Cultural and Biological Markers of Stress and Status in Medieval Subadults from England
15. Atypical Burial Practice and Juvenile Age-at-death in Later Medieval Gaelic Ireland: The Evidence from Ballyhanna, Co. Donegal
16. 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
Index

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