This month we are featuring Dr Tracy Betsinger who is an Assistant Professor from SUNY Oneonta. Prior to joining SUNY Oneonta, Dr. Betsinger held a post-doctoral research position with the Global History of Health Project at Ohio State University. Tracy working on a perinate from the post-medieval Drawsko collection, Poland (while pregnant with a fetal […] […]
We have a just published a large annotated bibliography on the Bioarchaeology of Childhood with Oxford Bibliographies online. This will be useful to all bioarchaeology and human osteoarchaeology students, and academics for research and teaching. Please access this here Halcrow, Siân E.; Ward, Stacey M. “Bioarchaeology of Childhood.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Childhood Studies. Ed. […] […]
SSCIP member Professor David Lancy invites proposals for a new book series, Palgrave Studies in the Anthropology of Children and Youth The goal of this series is to advance a robust new sub-field in anthropology that treats childhood and adolescence as distinct and worthy of scholarship. The series aims to break down historic barriers that […]
As the most vulnerable members of any population, infants and children are dependent on others for their survival. They are the most represented groups in cemetery samples, simply because surviving past the first year of life is no mean feat when you are so fragile. Providing you survive childhood, the stresses you experience during that […] […]
We have a forthcoming large annotated bibliography on the Bioarchaeology of Childhood coming soon to Oxford Bibliographies online. Take a sneak peek here. This will be useful to all bioarchaeology and human osteoarchaeology students, and academics for research and teaching. Please contact me here to request a personal copy. Halcrow, Siân E.; Ward, Stacey M. […] […]
The Family in Past Perspective: an Interdisciplinary Exploration of Familial Relationships Through Time Tuesday 20th to Thursday 22nd September 2016 – St. Chad’s College, Durham University Report by Conference Organisers: Rebecca Gowland and Ellen Kendall The 9th annual SSCIP Conference took place at St. Chad’s College, Durham University from the 20th – 22nd of September. The meeting […]
Editorial Eileen M. Murphy Welcome to Part 2 of Volume 9 of Childhood in the Past, the journal of the Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past (SSCIP). This issue comprises three research papers and five book reviews. In the first of the research papers Janet E. Kay explores the nature of the […]
Committee members Eileen Murphy and Grete Lillehammer are currently at the European Association of Archaeologists 22nd Annual Conference in Vilnius, Lithuania, chairing a SSCIP sponsored session “Giving New Meaning to Cultural Heritage – The Old and the Young in Past Societies”. Eileen tells me, “Since older members of society, particularly grandparents, can play such an […]
The SSCIP 2016 conference programme has just been announced with an impressive line up of international speakers approaching the conference theme of the Family in Past Perspective from a range of perspectives. Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past 2016 Programme Overview Tuesday 20th September 11:00 Registration Opens (St. Chad’s College, Durham) […]
SSCIP Conference 2016 The Family in Past Perspective: An interdisciplinary exploration of familial relationships through time 9th Annual Conference of the Society of the Study of Childhood in the Past Location: St. Chad’s College, Durham University, 18 North Bailey, Durham, DH1 3RH Dates: Tuesday 20th to Thursday 22nd September 2016 Organisers: Dr. Becky Gowland and […]