New registration information is now included below and now at the link. Conference organisers Rebecca Gowland and Ellen Kendall are delighted to announce that the 9th International SSCIP conference will be held at the stunning UNESCO world heritage site at Durham, UK, on the 20th to 22nd September. The conference is entitled: The Family in […]
A new blog post on the bioarchaeology of foetuses Source: Fetuses in bioarchaeology
To showcase the research and the multidisciplinary nature of SSCIP we will be featuring short interviews with our members. Our membership’s research covers a variety of approaches to the study of childhood in the past, from osteology, archaeology, history, literary studies, sociology, psychology and more, and includes all different time periods and places in the […]
Dr Simon Mays has just come back from a successful osteoarchaeology conference organised by the University of the Philippines. We share his comments about the conference and the SSCIP sponsored session. “Last week I attended a two-day conference in Manila, entitled ‘For the Love of Death: Human Osteoarchaeology in South-East Asia and the Pacific’, organised […]
Eileen Murphy and Grete Lillehammer invite papers to be considered for their SSCIP session on: Giving New Meaning to Cultural Heritage: The Old and the Young in Past Societies In archaeological studies of the past the humans in questions were often viewed as being adults in the prime of their lives and inadvertently male. Females […]
A recent post on children and conferences, of relevance to the group considering our subject! Source: There needs to be a cultural shift to accommodate children at conferences, and here are some ways to achieve this
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.