A recent story of a 4,800-year-old ‘mother’ cradling a baby has been pulling at the heart strings of people worldwide with sensationalist headlines such as “Mother’s enduring love for baby revealed as 5000-year-old fossil found” and “Fossil of 5000-year-old mother cradling baby found in Taiwan”. But is this story everything it’s really cracked up to […] […]
Our interviewee is Dr Kirsty Squires, who is a Lecturer in Osteoarchaeology in the Department of Forensic and Crime Science at Staffordshire University (UK). She has been a member of the Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past since 2011 and is the society’s outreach officer. Tell me a little bit about your […]
Jane Eva Baxter has announced an exciting opportunity to contribute to an upcoming Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past (SSCIP) Monograph on 19th Century Childhoods: I am currently seeking participants for a volume on 19th century childhoods that is international and interdisciplinary in scope. Individual contributions do not have to be interdisciplinary, […]
World Archaeological Congress (WAC-8), Kyoto, 28th August- 2nd September 2016. Session: T05-M Experiences of Children in Conflict NOTE: Early bird registration and submission of papers for the WAC8 conference CLOSES on April 30 Organisers: Kirsty Squires and Caroline Sturdy Colls Contact: kirsty.squires(at)staffs.ac.uk Abstract: Studies that focus on conflict in both the past and present lay […]
The Society for Medieval Archaeology Student Colloquium 2015 was held on 11th – 14th November with 50 attendees. The Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past sponsored a session “Children and Childhood” and awarded a best paper prize at the Colloquium. This well attended session was chaired by SSCIP committee member Dr Katie […]
Here is a link to a review of Mark Golden’s 2015 edition of his book, first published in 1990, Children and Childhood in Classical Athens. This was the first book in English to explore the lives of children in ancient Athens. Mark is a member of SSCIP.
A brand new Facebook group has been set up that may be of interest to some of our members. This page is intended for people interested in childhood bioarchaeology and anthropology. https://www.facebook.com/childhoodanth/
A new study has found that children suffered violent deaths during a turbulent time of severe social stress and drought following the “collapse” of the Wari empire in the Late Intermedi… Source: Violent deaths of children during a time of imperial decline in Ancient Peru
Introducing Snap-shots of research in the bioarchaeology of children. As part of this blog, I will feature the work of bioarchaeologists with an interest in infant and child remains through mini-int… Source: Snap-shots of Research: Early life stress and later life outcomes in Southeast Asian prehistory
Source: Upcoming meetings | Childhood bioarchaeology A collation of sessions and conferences that are coming up on the study of childhood in the past