The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Childhood

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.

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