Childhood in the Past Volume 5 (Childhood in the Past Monograph)

The Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past, in conjunction with Oxbow Books, publishes this international journal, Childhood in the Past. This journal provides a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary, international forum for the publication of research into all aspects of children and childhood in the past, which transcends conventional intellectual, disciplinary, geographical and chronological boundaries. The editor welcomes offers of papers from any field of study which can further knowledge and understanding of the nature and experience of childhood in the past.

Table of Contents

Editorial (Eileen M. Murphy)

Obituary (Professor Katrina Honeyman)

Invited paper
Travels into Thirdspace: The Archaeological Heritage of Children’s Spaces. A View from Beyond (Grete Lillehammer)

Research papers
1. Mesolithic Childhoods: Changing Life-Courses of Young Hunter-Fishers in the Stone Age of Southern Scandinavia (Fredrik Fahlander)
2. The Participation of Children in Mycenaean Cult (Christina Aamodt)
3. Mortuary Behaviour in Subadults: Children as Social Actors in the Hunter-Gatherer Societies of Argentine Pampas (Mónica A. Berón, Claudia M. Aranda and Leandro H. Luna)
4. Gendered Sámi Childhoods: Traditions in the Lule Sámi region 1100–1950 (Else Johansen Kleppe)
5. The Export of Children? The Children’s Friend Society and the London Parishes, 1830–42 (Katrina Honeyman)
6. Book Reviews (edited by Simon Mays)
7. Conduct Books for Girls in Enlightenment France (Laurence Brockliss)
8. Children in the Roman Empire: Outsiders Within (Mark Golden)
9. (Re)Thinking the Little Ancestors: New Perspectives on the Archaeology of Infancy and Childhood (Tina Jakob)
10. The Orphan in Eighteenth Century Law and Literature. Estate, Blood and Body (Heather Montgomery)
11. Bioarchaeology and Climate Change: A View from South Asian Prehistory (Sian Halcrow)