Children in the Prehistoric Puebloan Southwest - Brossura

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1607813610 ISBN 13: 9781607813613

Casa editrice: Univ of Utah Pr, 2014

Riassunto

Is there evidence of children in the archaeological record? Some would answer no, that ""subadults"" can only be distinguished when there is osteological confirmation. Others might suggest that the reason children don't exist in prehistory is because no one has looked for them, much as no one had looked for women in the same context until recently. Focusing on the Southwest, contributors to this volume attempt to find some of those children, or at least show how they might be found. They address two issues: what was the cultural construction of childhood? What were childrens' lives like? Determining how cultures with written records have constructed childhood in the past is hard enough, but the difficulty is magnified in the case of ancient Puebloan societies. The contributors here offer approaches from careful analysis of artifacts and skeletal remains to ethnographic evidence in rock art. Topics include ceramics and evidence of child manufacture and painting, cradleboards, evidence of child labour, and osteological evidence of health conditions.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of Utah Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1607813610
• ISBN 13: 9781607813613
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 247
• Redattore: Kamp Kathryn A.