Children and childhood in bioarchaeology / edited by Patrick Beauchesne and Sabrina C. Agarwal ; foreword by Clark Spencer Larsen.

Other author Beauchesne, Patrick, editor.
Other author Agarwal, Sabrina C., editor.
Other author Larsen, Clark Spencer writer of foreword.
Format Book
PublicationGainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, [2018]
Descriptionxviii, 392 pages ; 25 cm.
Subjects
Human remains (Archaeology)
Children, Prehistoric--Anthropometry.
Children, Prehistoric--Social conditions. --Research.

SeriesBioarchaeological interpretations of the human past: local, regional, and global perspectives
Bioarchaeological interpretations of the human past. ^A768018
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 Si¿n 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.
Abstract 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2017032674
ISBN9780813056807 hardcover ; alkaline paper
ISBN0813056802 hardcover ; alkaline paper