Children Childhood and Society

Contents: 1) Children, childhood and society: an introduction (Sally Crawford and Gillian Shepherd); 2) Past, present and future in the study of Roman childhood (Mary Harlow, Ray Laurence and Ville Vuolanto); 3) The pitter-patter of tiny feet in clay: aspects of the liminality of childhood in the an [...]
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Contents: 1) Children, childhood and society: an introduction (Sally Crawford and Gillian Shepherd); 2) Past, present and future in the study of Roman childhood (Mary Harlow, Ray Laurence and Ville Vuolanto); 3) The pitter-patter of tiny feet in clay: aspects of the liminality of childhood in the ancient Near East (Alasdair Livingstone); 4) The child's cache at Assiros Toumba, Macedonia (Diana Wardle and K. A. Wardle); 5) Transitions to adulthood in early Icelandic society (Chris Callow); 6) Had they no shame? Martial, Status and Roman sexual attitudes towards slave children (Niall McKeown); 7) Vital resources, ideal images and virtual lives: children in Early Bronze Age funerary ritual (Paul Garwood); 8) Companions, co-incidences or chattels? Children in the early Anglo-Saxon multiple burial ritual (Sally Crawford); 9) Poor little rich kids? Status and selection in Archaic Western Greece (Gillian Shepherd).