Sally Crawford is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford. A Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, she is widely published on Anglo-Saxon archaeology and the archaeology of childhood and is a co-founder and current President of the Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past.Dawn Hadley is Professor of Medieval Archaeology at the University of Sheffield. Dawn has published extensively on Anglo-Saxon and Viking-Age archaeology, and on the archaeology of identity. She is also is a Committee member of the Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past, and Honorary Secretary of the Society for Medieval Archaeology.Gillian Shepherd is the Director of the A.D. Trendall Research Centre for Ancient Mediterranean Studies and Lecturer in Ancient Mediterranean Studies at La Trobe University. She has published extensively on the archaeology of Greek Sicily and South Italy, especially with regard to burial customs, childhood, and identity. She is also founding and former Committee member of the Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past, and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.

I highly recommend this book as a central reference for students and researchers in the disciplines of archaeology, bioarchaeology and the history of childhood. The volume is meticulously edited, with chapters written in accessible language, and extensively illustrated ... it is a must-have. This volume is a brilliant showcase for the diversity and richness of the field of the archaeology of childhood.

• Introductions: The History and Impact of the Archaeology of Childhood 1: Sally Crawford, Dawn M. Hadley, and Gillian Shepherd: The Archaeology of Childhood: The Birth and Development of A Discipline 2: Grete Lillehammer: The History of the Archaeology of Childhood Defining Children and Childhood 3: Jo Buckberry: Techniques For Identifying the Age and Sex of Children at Death 4: Simon Mays: The Study of Growth in Skeletal Populations 5: M. Annette Grove And David F. Lancy: Cultural Models of Stages in the Life Course 6: Rebecca Gowland: Infants and Mothers: Linked Lives and Embodied Life Courses Children, Family, and Households 7: Brigitte Röder: Prehistoric Households and Childhood: Growing Up in a Daily Routine 8: Maureen Carroll: Archaeological and Epigraphic Evidence For Infancy in the Roman World 9: Penelope Allison: Roman Household Organization 10: Supriya Varma: Material Culture and Childhood In Harappan South Asia 11: Rebecca Yamin: Working-Class Childhood In Nineteenth-Century New York City Learning, Socialization, and Training 12: Robert W. Park: Learning the Tools of Survival in the Thule and Dorset Cultures of Arctic Canada 13: Craig Cessford: Educating Victorian Children: A Material Culture Perspective from Cambridge 14: Anne Ingvarsson Sundström, Jan Mispelaere, and Ylva Bäckström: Above and Below the Surface: Environment, Work, Death, and Upbringing In Sixteenth to Seventeenth-Century Sweden 15: Ceridwen Boston: Boys at Sea: An Osteological and Historical Analysis of Ships' Boys In the Late Eighteenth to Early Nineteenth-Century British Royal Navy 16: Vicky Crewe: Training Children for Work In the Nineteenth Century: Material Culture Approaches Self, Identity, and Community 17: Jessica Cooney: Portrait of a Palaeolithic Family: Art, Ornamentation, and Children's Relationship with their Community 18: Margarita Sánchez Romero: Care and Socialization of Children in the Bronze Age 19: Olympia Bobou: Representations of Children in Ancient Greece 20: Katherine V. Huntley: Children's Graffiti in Pompeii and Herculaneum 21: B. Sunday Eiselt: Vecino Archaeology and the Politics of Play in New Mexico 22: Dawn M. Hadley: Children and Migration Health, Disease, and Environment 23: Lesley Harrington And Benjamin Osipov: The Developing Forager: Reconstructing Childhood Activity Patterns from Long Bone Cross-Sectional Geometry 24: Rebecca C. Redfern: Feeding Infants from the Iron Age to the Early Medieval Period in Britain 25: Mary E. Lewis: Disease and Trauma in the Children from Roman Britain 26: Susanne Hakenbeck: Infant Head Shaping in the First Millennium AD 27: Katie A. Hemer and Jane A. Evans: The Contribution of Stable Isotope Analysis to The Study of Childhood Movement and Migration Death, Memory, and Meaning 28: Gillian Shepherd: Where are the Children? Locating Children in Funerary Space in the Ancient Greek World 29: Nicola Harrington: Miniature Adults? Children in Ancient Egyptian Iconography 30: Janet Huskinson: Roman Sarcophagi and Children 31: Deborah Blom: Child Sacrifice in the Ancient Andes 32: Sophie Oosterwijk: Miniature Adults? The Representation of Children and Childhood in Medieval Art 33: Colm J. Donnelly and Eileen M. Murphy: Children's Burial Grounds (Cillíní) in Ireland: New Insights into an Early Modern Religious Tradition Seeing, Presenting, and Interpreting the Archaeology of Childhood 34: Sally Crawford and Katharina Ulmschneider: Gazing on the Past (and Being Photobombed by Children): Archaeology, The Early Years Of Modern Photography, and the Visible/Invisible Child 35: Claudia Lambrugo: From The Archaeology Of Childhood to Modern Children Visiting Archaeological Museums: An Italian Perspective 36: Mark A. Hall: Material Culture, Museums, Movies, and Make Believe: Representing Medieval Childhood 37: Sharon Brookshaw: Presenting Children from the Distant Past in Museums

Sally Crawford is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford. A Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, she is widely published on Anglo-Saxon archaeology and the archaeology of childhood and is a co-founder and current President of the Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past.Dawn Hadley is Professor of Medieval Archaeology at the University of Sheffield. Dawn has published extensively on Anglo-Saxon and Viking-Age archaeology, and on the archaeology of identity. She is also is a Committee member of the Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past, and Honorary Secretary of the Society for Medieval Archaeology.Gillian Shepherd is the Director of the A.D. Trendall Research Centre for Ancient Mediterranean Studies and Lecturer in Ancient Mediterranean Studies at La Trobe University. She has published extensively on the archaeology of Greek Sicily and South Italy, especially with regard to burial customs, childhood, and identity. She is also founding and former Committee member of the Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past, and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.

I highly recommend this book as a central reference for students and researchers in the disciplines of archaeology, bioarchaeology and the history of childhood. The volume is meticulously edited, with chapters written in accessible language, and extensively illustrated ... it is a must-have. This volume is a brilliant showcase for the diversity and richness of the field of the archaeology of childhood.

• Introductions: The History and Impact of the Archaeology of Childhood 1: Sally Crawford, Dawn M. Hadley, and Gillian Shepherd: The Archaeology of Childhood: The Birth and Development of A Discipline 2: Grete Lillehammer: The History of the Archaeology of Childhood Defining Children and Childhood 3: Jo Buckberry: Techniques For Identifying the Age and Sex of Children at Death 4: Simon Mays: The Study of Growth in Skeletal Populations 5: M. Annette Grove And David F. Lancy: Cultural Models of Stages in the Life Course 6: Rebecca Gowland: Infants and Mothers: Linked Lives and Embodied Life Courses Children, Family, and Households 7: Brigitte Röder: Prehistoric Households and Childhood: Growing Up in a Daily Routine 8: Maureen Carroll: Archaeological and Epigraphic Evidence For Infancy in the Roman World 9: Penelope Allison: Roman Household Organization 10: Supriya Varma: Material Culture and Childhood In Harappan South Asia 11: Rebecca Yamin: Working-Class Childhood In Nineteenth-Century New York City Learning, Socialization, and Training 12: Robert W. Park: Learning the Tools of Survival in the Thule and Dorset Cultures of Arctic Canada 13: Craig Cessford: Educating Victorian Children: A Material Culture Perspective from Cambridge 14: Anne Ingvarsson Sundström, Jan Mispelaere, and Ylva Bäckström: Above and Below the Surface: Environment, Work, Death, and Upbringing In Sixteenth to Seventeenth-Century Sweden 15: Ceridwen Boston: Boys at Sea: An Osteological and Historical Analysis of Ships' Boys In the Late Eighteenth to Early Nineteenth-Century British Royal Navy 16: Vicky Crewe: Training Children for Work In the Nineteenth Century: Material Culture Approaches Self, Identity, and Community 17: Jessica Cooney: Portrait of a Palaeolithic Family: Art, Ornamentation, and Children's Relationship with their Community 18: Margarita Sánchez Romero: Care and Socialization of Children in the Bronze Age 19: Olympia Bobou: Representations of Children in Ancient Greece 20: Katherine V. Huntley: Children's Graffiti in Pompeii and Herculaneum 21: B. Sunday Eiselt: Vecino Archaeology and the Politics of Play in New Mexico 22: Dawn M. Hadley: Children and Migration Health, Disease, and Environment 23: Lesley Harrington And Benjamin Osipov: The Developing Forager: Reconstructing Childhood Activity Patterns from Long Bone Cross-Sectional Geometry 24: Rebecca C. Redfern: Feeding Infants from the Iron Age to the Early Medieval Period in Britain 25: Mary E. Lewis: Disease and Trauma in the Children from Roman Britain 26: Susanne Hakenbeck: Infant Head Shaping in the First Millennium AD 27: Katie A. Hemer and Jane A. Evans: The Contribution of Stable Isotope Analysis to The Study of Childhood Movement and Migration Death, Memory, and Meaning 28: Gillian Shepherd: Where are the Children? Locating Children in Funerary Space in the Ancient Greek World 29: Nicola Harrington: Miniature Adults? Children in Ancient Egyptian Iconography 30: Janet Huskinson: Roman Sarcophagi and Children 31: Deborah Blom: Child Sacrifice in the Ancient Andes 32: Sophie Oosterwijk: Miniature Adults? The Representation of Children and Childhood in Medieval Art 33: Colm J. Donnelly and Eileen M. Murphy: Children's Burial Grounds (Cillíní) in Ireland: New Insights into an Early Modern Religious Tradition Seeing, Presenting, and Interpreting the Archaeology of Childhood 34: Sally Crawford and Katharina Ulmschneider: Gazing on the Past (and Being Photobombed by Children): Archaeology, The Early Years Of Modern Photography, and the Visible/Invisible Child 35: Claudia Lambrugo: From The Archaeology Of Childhood to Modern Children Visiting Archaeological Museums: An Italian Perspective 36: Mark A. Hall: Material Culture, Museums, Movies, and Make Believe: Representing Medieval Childhood 37: Sharon Brookshaw: Presenting Children from the Distant Past in Museums

Sally Crawford is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford. A Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, she is widely published on Anglo-Saxon archaeology and the archaeology of childhood and is a co-founder and current President of the Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past.Dawn Hadley is Professor of Medieval Archaeology at the University of Sheffield. Dawn has published extensively on Anglo-Saxon and Viking-Age archaeology, and on the archaeology of identity. She is also is a Committee member of the Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past, and Honorary Secretary of the Society for Medieval Archaeology.Gillian Shepherd is the Director of the A.D. Trendall Research Centre for Ancient Mediterranean Studies and Lecturer in Ancient Mediterranean Studies at La Trobe University. She has published extensively on the archaeology of Greek Sicily and South Italy, especially with regard to burial customs, childhood, and identity. She is also founding and former Committee member of the Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past, and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.

I highly recommend this book as a central reference for students and researchers in the disciplines of archaeology, bioarchaeology and the history of childhood. The volume is meticulously edited, with chapters written in accessible language, and extensively illustrated ... it is a must-have. This volume is a brilliant showcase for the diversity and richness of the field of the archaeology of childhood.

• Introductions: The History and Impact of the Archaeology of Childhood 1: Sally Crawford, Dawn M. Hadley, and Gillian Shepherd: The Archaeology of Childhood: The Birth and Development of A Discipline 2: Grete Lillehammer: The History of the Archaeology of Childhood Defining Children and Childhood 3: Jo Buckberry: Techniques For Identifying the Age and Sex of Children at Death 4: Simon Mays: The Study of Growth in Skeletal Populations 5: M. Annette Grove And David F. Lancy: Cultural Models of Stages in the Life Course 6: Rebecca Gowland: Infants and Mothers: Linked Lives and Embodied Life Courses Children, Family, and Households 7: Brigitte Röder: Prehistoric Households and Childhood: Growing Up in a Daily Routine 8: Maureen Carroll: Archaeological and Epigraphic Evidence For Infancy in the Roman World 9: Penelope Allison: Roman Household Organization 10: Supriya Varma: Material Culture and Childhood In Harappan South Asia 11: Rebecca Yamin: Working-Class Childhood In Nineteenth-Century New York City Learning, Socialization, and Training 12: Robert W. Park: Learning the Tools of Survival in the Thule and Dorset Cultures of Arctic Canada 13: Craig Cessford: Educating Victorian Children: A Material Culture Perspective from Cambridge 14: Anne Ingvarsson Sundström, Jan Mispelaere, and Ylva Bäckström: Above and Below the Surface: Environment, Work, Death, and Upbringing In Sixteenth to Seventeenth-Century Sweden 15: Ceridwen Boston: Boys at Sea: An Osteological and Historical Analysis of Ships' Boys In the Late Eighteenth to Early Nineteenth-Century British Royal Navy 16: Vicky Crewe: Training Children for Work In the Nineteenth Century: Material Culture Approaches Self, Identity, and Community 17: Jessica Cooney: Portrait of a Palaeolithic Family: Art, Ornamentation, and Children's Relationship with their Community 18: Margarita Sánchez Romero: Care and Socialization of Children in the Bronze Age 19: Olympia Bobou: Representations of Children in Ancient Greece 20: Katherine V. Huntley: Children's Graffiti in Pompeii and Herculaneum 21: B. Sunday Eiselt: Vecino Archaeology and the Politics of Play in New Mexico 22: Dawn M. Hadley: Children and Migration Health, Disease, and Environment 23: Lesley Harrington And Benjamin Osipov: The Developing Forager: Reconstructing Childhood Activity Patterns from Long Bone Cross-Sectional Geometry 24: Rebecca C. Redfern: Feeding Infants from the Iron Age to the Early Medieval Period in Britain 25: Mary E. Lewis: Disease and Trauma in the Children from Roman Britain 26: Susanne Hakenbeck: Infant Head Shaping in the First Millennium AD 27: Katie A. Hemer and Jane A. Evans: The Contribution of Stable Isotope Analysis to The Study of Childhood Movement and Migration Death, Memory, and Meaning 28: Gillian Shepherd: Where are the Children? Locating Children in Funerary Space in the Ancient Greek World 29: Nicola Harrington: Miniature Adults? Children in Ancient Egyptian Iconography 30: Janet Huskinson: Roman Sarcophagi and Children 31: Deborah Blom: Child Sacrifice in the Ancient Andes 32: Sophie Oosterwijk: Miniature Adults? The Representation of Children and Childhood in Medieval Art 33: Colm J. Donnelly and Eileen M. Murphy: Children's Burial Grounds (Cillíní) in Ireland: New Insights into an Early Modern Religious Tradition Seeing, Presenting, and Interpreting the Archaeology of Childhood 34: Sally Crawford and Katharina Ulmschneider: Gazing on the Past (and Being Photobombed by Children): Archaeology, The Early Years Of Modern Photography, and the Visible/Invisible Child 35: Claudia Lambrugo: From The Archaeology Of Childhood to Modern Children Visiting Archaeological Museums: An Italian Perspective 36: Mark A. Hall: Material Culture, Museums, Movies, and Make Believe: Representing Medieval Childhood 37: Sharon Brookshaw: Presenting Children from the Distant Past in Museums