Children, Childhood And Society (bar International Series) [Paperback]

This interdisciplinary volume gathers together papers on the history and archaeology of childhood with a wide geographical and chronological remit. There is a broad methodological overview, followed by papers including one on early Bronze Age funerary ritual, one on childhood in the Ancient Near East, papers on prehistoric and Archaic Greece, an overview of research on Roman childhood and a paper on sexual attitudes to slave children, one on early Iceland and one on Anglo-Saxon burial ritual.