The Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past Conference on familial relationships

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 […]

Finding interactions between the old and young in past societies – SSCIP sponsored session at EAA in Vilnius

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 […]

SSCIP 2016 conference programme announced – Durham University

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) […]

Register for the NINTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE now!

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 […]

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 […] […]