Children in Prehistoric Puebloan Southwest - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1607813610 ISBN 13: 9781607813613

Publisher: University of Utah Press, 2014

Synopsis

Is there evidence of children in the archaeological record? Some would answer no, that "subadults" can only be distinguished when there is osteological confirmation. Others might suggest that the reason children don’t exist in prehistory is because no one has looked for them, much as no one had looked for women in the same context until recently.

Focusing on the Southwest, contributors to this volume attempt to find some of those children, or at least show how they might be found. They address two issues: what was the cultural construction of childhood? What were childrens' lives like?

Determining how cultures with written records have constructed childhood in the past is hard enough, but the difficulty is magnified in the case of ancient Puebloan societies. The contributors here offer approaches from careful analysis of artifacts and skeletal remains to ethnographic evidence in rock art. Topics include ceramics and evidence of child manufacture and painting, cradleboards, evidence of child labor, and osteological evidence of health conditions.
 

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Review

"The study of children has previously received almost no attention by archaeologists. This book will break new ground, and it will be significant."—Michelle Hegmon, Arizona State University
 

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Utah Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1607813610
• ISBN 13: 9781607813613
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Kamp Kathryn