New volume of Childhood in the Past is out now!

The new volume (9.1) for Childhood in the Past has just been released. Please click the journal link here. Eileen Murphy has provided an editorial that summarises recent SSCIP activities and events, and the great line-up of papers in this volume (below) Editorial Eileen M. Murphy Welcome to the spring issue of Volume nine of […]

Is this really a case of a 5,000 year old mother and baby? — The Bioarchaeology of Childhood | Sian Halcrow

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 […] […]

Calls for contributions to an upcoming SSCIP Monograph on 19th Century Childhoods

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, […]

Call for papers for the WAC conference symposium: Experiences of Children in Conflict

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 […]