A session on The Health and Welfare of Children in the Past will be held at the 2019 SAAs meeting at Albuquerque, New Mexico, on April 10-14th (session no: 4336). See here for more information on the conference. If interested in joining the session please contact the session chairs, Esme Hookway and Dr Kirsty Squires […]
I am very excited to share Jane Eva Baxter and Meredith Ellis’ new edited volume. Opening the book the editors state: The 19th Century was a time when the world was becoming increasingly connected through global forces and networks. Colonial and capitalist expansion was bringing the world into closer contact, while nationalism and forms […]
Eileen M. Murphy shares part of her editorial here. The volume commences with a paper by Mélie Le Roy, Stéphane Rottier and Anne-Marie Tillier that asks: ‘Who was a “Child” During the Neolithic in France?’. The study focuses on juvenile remains recovered from Neolithic (5700–2100 BC) tombs and investigates funerary practices, age distribution and burial […]
Our recently published international collaborative research calls into question the skeletal and genomic analysis, and ethics surrounding research into the much publicised alien-like “Atacama mummy”. Here is Forbes coverage written by co-author Kristina Killgrove. Our team published our findings yesterday in an open-access paper in the International Journal of Paleopathology. Here we evaluated work carried […] […]
Personal Reflections By Amanda Hoogestraat, Twitter @AmehAnthro On my recent tour of museums in the UK, I saw small reminders of children in the exhibits featuring past societies. Children were obviously a part of every community, but are underrepresented in museum collections. There is a museum devoted to childhood in both London and Edinburgh, but […] […]
Recently researchers have made an unexpected discovery of a mummified foetus while CT scanning a 2300-year-old mummy known as Ta-Kush currently held at the Maidstone Museum in Kent. This coffin was labelled, “A mummified hawk with linen and cartonnage, Ptolemaic period (323 BC – 30 BC).” Micro-CT scan shows the mummified stillborn human baby. Image: […] […]
If you are in Milan over the next few months, you might like to have a look at a new exhibition, curated by Cristina Cattaneo and Claudia Lambrugo, at the Antiquarium ‘Alda Levi’ in Milan. Exploring the archaeology and anthropology of childhood, it’s on from the 15th May to the 3rd November 2018.
Below is a message from Sanna Lipkin on a research project being advertised on the topic of childhood in the past: “Interested in childhood in the past and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship at the University of Oulu? Archaeology Research Unit at the University of Oulu, Finland, is looking for candidates to apply for a Marie […]
One of the most high profile cases of infanticide was committed by Minnie Dean in the late 19th century, also gaining infamy as the only woman in New Zealand to receive the death penalty for her crimes. During my childhood I heard many different stories of her hideous acts, made even more pertinent given that […] […]
The spring issue of Volume 11 of Childhood in the Past, the journal of the Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past, has just been published. This special issue is guest edited by John D. Burton and Jane Eva Baxter from DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois, USA, and focuses on nineteenth-century education. It had […]