Children, death and burial : archaeological discourses / edited by Eileen Murphy and Mélie Le Roy.
| Other author | Murphy, Eileen M. editor, author. |
| Other author | Le Roy, Mélie, editor, author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Oxford ; Havertown, PA : Oxbow Books, 2017. |
| Description | ix, 273 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Childhood in the past monograph series ; volume 5 Childhood in the past monograph series 5. ^A1294846 |
| Contents | 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Children, death and burial Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2017 9781785707131 |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2017015743 |
| ISBN | 9781785707124 paperback |
| ISBN | 1785707124 paperback |
| ISBN | electronic publication |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Joyner | General Stacks | CC77.B8 C49 2017 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |