My work with babies – today and from prehistory
A new blog on the Bioarchaeology of Childhood | Sian Halcrow Source: My work with babies – today and from prehistory
A new blog on the Bioarchaeology of Childhood | Sian Halcrow Source: My work with babies – today and from prehistory
Our SSCIP member, Maria Sommer, has a fascinating new book: Care, Socialization and Play in Ancient Attica: A Developmental Childhood Archaeological Approach By Maria Sommer and Dion Sommer Care, Socialization and Play in Ancient Attica scrutinizes in how infants and young children were nursed, cared for and socialized in the oikos (family unit). In what […]
We are delighted to welcome Lynne McKerr, Kirsty Squires, Sian Halcrow, Margarita Sanchez Romero and Ann Nehlin to the SSCIP committee! Ann is a researcher and lecturer at the Department of History at Stockholm University. She is working on a project concerning the transportation of Finnish children to Sweden during WWII which is funded by the Swedish […]
Society members Eileen Murphy and Grete Lillehammer have been informed that their session proposal ‘Giving New Meaning to Cultural Heritage: The Old and the Young in Past Societies’ has been provisionally accepted by the EAA Scientific Committee for the conference program 2016.
The Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past is an interdisciplinary society to promote all aspects of the study of childhood in the past. Childhood in the past is a new and growing discipline, incorporating archaeology, anthropology, history, art history, sociology, psychology and many other studies. Our range is global; our chronology runs […]