Pub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/17585716.2020.1738631
Christopher P. Barton
Children and childhoods have been a neglected topic within historical archaeology, often with a limited or only passing reference to children when a toy is uncovered at a site. However, since the 2000s, the study has started to gain favour in the field as archaeologist’s transition away from simply noting the presence of children into more in-depth discussions of children as social agents. Negotiating the archaeology of children and childhood in America is difficult given the spectrum of definitions, ideologies and social constructs; for example, how does the author define children or childhood? What are the temporal and spatial ranges of the study? And how is the intersectionality of identities such as class, ethnicity, gender, and race addressed by the author? On one hand, the threat is that the author can be overly ambitious and attempt to cover every subtopic, every time period, and every culture, thus presenting the audience with a disjointed bricolage of writing that only touches upon important issues without providing a thorough analysis. On the other hand, the author runs the risk of neglecting the diversity of the past and thus can create a work that homogenizes the study of children and childhood. The key for the scholar is to discuss the heterogeneity and intersectionality of the past while also narrowing the scope of the work into a concise narrative. For the most part, Jane Eva Baxter is able to accomplish this difficult task in her book, The Archaeology of American Childhood and Adolescence. This book is very much a sequel to Baxter’s 2005 book, The Archaeology of Childhood: Children, Gender, and Material Culture, in which she discussed similar topics but without the explicit purview of ‘American Childhood’. While restricting the range of childhood and adolescence to one nation helps to narrow the focus of the book, it also brings up a question: is there a monolithic identity of being American? Baxter attempts to answer this question by stating that,
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Pub Date : 2019-07-03DOI: 10.1080/17585716.2019.1638558
Mélie Le Roy, C. Polet
A large part of existing production activities within various past populations, from prehistoric to modern times, is now well known among the scientific community. Activities are one of the main notions that help to characterize past societies. During the Palaeolithic period, we usually refer to hunter-gatherer-forager groups, suggesting that the main activity related to their subsistence consists of hunting, gathering, and foraging. Similarly, for the next period, peoples were designated as farmers-breeders, and their everyday life included farming, breeding, or other similar activities. This concept also applies to more recent populations. One example that we usually talk about is pre-industrial societies, which refers to the period before the industrial revolution that occurred in the West during the first half of the nineteenth century. Regardless of the period, several indicators allow us to define and describe the different chores that were performed in past societies. From the tools to the activity markers on human bones during their lifetime to the production of artefacts, a wide area is open for study and discussion. To date, it has been possible to determine that certain individuals specialized in archery (Thomas 2014) or were part of horse riding populations (Pálfi and Dutour 1996; Baillif-Ducros et al. 2012) based on activity markers. Ceramic workshops can even be identified through specific manufacturers or designs (Murphy and Poblome 2016). Studies have also considered the social structure of these different activities, such as the ‘division of work’ according to gender, as mentioned by Leroi-Gourhan and Brézillon (1973) on the Magdalenian site of Pincevent or by Binford (1991) for the Nunamiut people. The International Labour Organization (2012) defines child labour as: ‘any form of work that deprives children of their childhood, their potential and their dignity, interferes with their schooling and that is harmful to physical and mental development’. This current definition carries a negative connotation that may not have existed in the past. However, we will try to avoid this denomination (except if we refer to the exploitation of children) and instead use the terms ‘activity’ and ‘work’. One may, then, wonder what were children’s roles within group production activities? This issue has rarely been considered for the immature cohort and the importance of the contribution that children of past societies made to the economy is still widely unexplored (Buchet et al. 2006). However, ethnography and history have long established the active participation of children in community work (Wileman 2005; AIDELF 2006). Archaeological evidence exists, such as in a mining network, where children, who are physically smaller, could reach
从史前到现代，在过去各种人口中存在的大部分生产活动，现在已为科学界所熟知。活动是帮助描述过去社会特征的主要概念之一。在旧石器时代，我们通常指的是狩猎-采集-觅食群体，这表明与他们的生存相关的主要活动包括狩猎、采集和觅食。同样，在接下来的时期，人们被指定为农民-育种者，他们的日常生活包括耕作、育种或其他类似的活动。这个概念也适用于最近的人群。我们经常谈论的一个例子是前工业社会，它指的是19世纪上半叶西方发生工业革命之前的时期。无论哪个时期，有几个指标使我们能够定义和描述过去社会中不同的家务劳动。从工具到人类骨骼在其一生中的活动标记，再到人工制品的生产，一个广泛的领域是开放的研究和讨论。迄今为止，已经有可能确定某些人专门从事射箭(Thomas 2014)或骑马人群的一部分(Pálfi和Dutour 1996;baillifl - ducros et al. 2012)基于活动标记。陶瓷车间甚至可以通过特定的制造商或设计来识别(Murphy和Poblome 2016)。研究还考虑了这些不同活动的社会结构，例如Leroi-Gourhan和br zillon(1973年)在马格达莱尼的平event遗址提到的根据性别的“工作分工”，或者Binford(1991年)对努纳米特人的研究。国际劳工组织(2012年)将童工定义为:“任何形式的剥夺儿童童年、潜力和尊严的工作，干扰他们的学业，有害身心发展的工作”。这个当前的定义带有过去可能不存在的负面含义。然而，我们将尽量避免使用这个名称(除非我们指的是对儿童的剥削)，而是使用“活动”和“工作”这两个术语。那么，人们可能会想知道，儿童在群体生产活动中的角色是什么?这个问题很少被考虑到不成熟的群体，过去社会的孩子对经济的贡献的重要性仍然广泛未被探索(Buchet et al. 2006)。然而，民族志和历史早就证实了儿童积极参与社区工作(Wileman 2005;AIDELF 2006)。考古证据是存在的，比如在一个采矿网络中，体型较小的儿童可以到达
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Pub Date : 2019-07-03DOI: 10.1080/17585716.2019.1638557
E. Murphy, C. Donnelly, David McKean
ABSTRACT Lowell, Massachusetts, is considered as the birthplace of the industrial revolution in the United States. Established in 1822 by a group of Bostonian entrepreneurs, the new textile factories harnessed the Merrimack River to power their waterwheels using a system of canals. This work attracted groups of emigrant Irish workers from Boston, a process that continued into the middle of the century, particularly in the wake of the Great Irish Famine (1845–1852). We are fortunate that two volumes known as The Hanavor Burial Records exist that provide a window into the lives and deaths of the early Irish settlers in Lowell. Some 1450 entries dating to the period between 1849 and 1865 provide details of the occupation of the deceased. This study focuses on Irish pre-teen and teenage workers; their age-at-death profile, the nature of the work they undertook, and the causes of their deaths are examined.
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Pub Date : 2019-07-03DOI: 10.1080/17585716.2019.1638554
Doris Pany-Kucera, Anton Kern, H. Reschreiter
ABSTRACT The analysis of subadult skeletons from the Iron Age Hallstatt graveyard and archaeological findings from the contemporaneous salt mine close-by, yield promising new insights. The cemetery is located in a barely accessible mountain valley, next to the highly organised Iron Age salt mining manufacture. The way of mining is largely known from finds in the ancient mines, including distinct, repeated tasks for the miners. The finding of small-sized leather shoes and a child's cap in these salt mines posed the question whether children were involved in the mining process. Therefore, the 40 available subadult skeletons were analysed systematically for joint changes maybe related to early workload. Signs of osteoarthritis, on selected joint surfaces of long bones and the vertebrae, high skeletal robusticity, vertebral osteochondritis and compression, and osteochondritis dissecans were among the skeletal lesions observed. The cervical vertebrae and the distal femoral joints were affected to the greatest extent.
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Pub Date : 2019-07-03DOI: 10.1080/17585716.2019.1638556
Katrien Van de Vijver
ABSTRACT The study of trauma in non-adults (<18 years) from archaeological assemblages is relatively recent, partly because immature bones present distinct injury patterns, while rapid healing and remodelling can erase macroscopic evidence. However, non-adult trauma provides information about age-related differences in risk, and the lifestyles and social roles of immature individuals. This study recorded possible fractures in 135 non-adults from a churchyard and a church assemblage from medieval and post-medieval Flanders, to evaluate the presence of fractures and analyse type, prevalence, age distribution, and socio-economic differences. Eighteen individuals presented lesions, including typical non-adult injuries. Prevalence was generally low , but some trends emerged. The churchyard had a higher prevalence, and these individuals likely had a lower social background compared to the church, suggesting socio-economic differences. In the churchyard assemblage older non-adults showed an increased prevalence, possibly related to occupational risks since many children and particularly adolescents, worked as servants, labourers, or apprentices.
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Pub Date : 2019-07-03DOI: 10.1080/17585716.2019.1638555
C. Polet, Merlin Leunda Martiarena, S. Villotte, M. Vercauteren
ABSTRACT The anterior band of the medial collateral ligament (MCL) is an important stabilizer for valgus stress at the elbow. When practised intensively and repetitively, activities using overhead throwing motions can injure this ligament and its insertion. If these activities occur when the epiphyses are not yet fully fused, traction forces can result in bony detachments in the area of the MCL insertion. This study was based on commingled graves found in 16 Middle and Late Neolithic caves from Belgium. We recorded the presence of MCL lesions on 196 humeri and studied the relation between lesions, siding, and robusticity. 5.1% of the humeri displayed MCL lesions, which affected only the right robust humeri. Our results suggest a social division in throwing activities in Belgium during the Neolithic. They also suggest that throwing practice started from a young age, which invites us to re-examine the role of teenagers in prehistoric societies.
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Pub Date : 2019-07-03DOI: 10.1080/17585716.2019.1638559
R. Gowland
Initial studies of age in the past focused specifically on childhood to ensure that this hitherto marginalized demographic was made ‘visible’ within the archaeological record. The more holistic con...
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Pub Date : 2019-07-03DOI: 10.1080/17585716.2019.1638560
John Pearce
nants of kinship and grief in the past. Rebay-Salisbury’s chapter also supplies numerous examples of such burials from Bronze Age Austria, with a more specific focus on mother/ child relationships. In addition, she highlights some truly remarkable multiple interments, including the body of a man overlaying three children (DNA results are pending), and the touching burial of two children aged 2 and 6 years, possibly siblings, in an embrace. Inevitably, many of the chapters focus on burial evidence, but a number also incorporate information gleaned from textual sources to aid interpretations. For example, Zoega’s chapter on early Christian household cemeteries from Northern Iceland shows how three-generation households were common. The importance of this lived proximity for the transmission of inter-generational knowledge, experience and familial identity was significant. These cemeteries add another dimension to the Icelandic Sagas which more often present a negative image of old age, with a diminution of power and status. It reminds us that power has different forms. Gallou’s chapter on Minoan and Mycenaean societies of the late Bronze Age Aegean is one of the few that focuses on material rather than skeletal evidence. She provides a rich array of relevant evidence for children and older generations, including artistic depictions of elderly women playing active roles in ritual healing, as well as childcare and funerary preparations. Other chapters from Le Roy and colleagues examine the under-representation and occasional complete absence of children under 5 years from Neolithic burial contexts in France. Denham and colleagues highlight the value of cremated human remains and archival records for understanding age-related burial practice in the Bronze and Iron Age in Norway. Given the focus on skeletal remains throughout the book, it is apt that the final chapter by Maaranen and Buckberry addresses the thorny problem of skeletal age estimation and the tendency for current techniques to under-estimate age-at-death of older people and thus contribute to their invisibility. Overall, this is an excellent book and I highly recommend it. My only minor criticism is that the introduction felt a bit cursory and could have done more to set the scene in terms of current theoretical and methodological approaches to the life course. The book would also have benefited from a concluding chapter to highlight key themes and future directions. The book showcases innovative and creative approaches for exploring hitherto elusive intergenerational relationships in the past. I will leave you with Gallou’s (70) pertinent observation at the end of her excellent chapter: ‘There is no foot too small or too old that it cannot leave an imprint on this world, past and present’.
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Pub Date : 2019-01-02DOI: 10.1080/17585716.2019.1587914
P. Blaževičius
ABSTRACT Methods that examine finger and hand prints are still rarely used in the analysis of archaeological artefacts, even though objects made from clay have perfectly preserved traces of their creators, left hundreds or even thousands of years ago. Information coded in these prints can be examined by searching for repetition and distribution of individual or typical characteristics. This article focuses on the breadth of papillary lines and how it changed as the person grew. The prints left on ceramic objects from the thirteenth–eighteenth century layers at Vilnius Castle were examined and children's prints were identified on approximately twenty-five percent of the material with dermatoglyphics. Analysis of the results serves as the basis for assessing the nature and scale of child labour.
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Pub Date : 2019-01-02DOI: 10.1080/17585716.2019.1587916
A. Cucina, Héctor Hernández Álvarez
ABSTRACT Workers and their families in haciendas in the Yucatán, Mexico, at the turn of the twentieth century experienced very poor living conditions, characterized by diseases and high infant mortality. The death records for the hacienda San Pedro Cholul stored at the Yucatán State Archive, reports mortality data for people living in the hacienda between 1871 and 1900, including cause of death. Infant mortality for children under two years of age reached 54.5%, while it was 70.2% for children under five years of age. Gastrointestinal disorders, fever, and ‘alferecía’ characterized infant mortality in children aged one year, while diarrhoea and fever mostly affected infants after that age. Male infant mortality predominated over that of females in children less than five years of age but the trend reversed after that age. About one quarter of people died during measles, smallpox and whooping cough epidemics. Harsh living conditions are also suggested from the bottles retrieved during archaeological excavations of the hacienda. Many of these would have contained medical treatments against dysentery, intestinal parasites and malnutrition, and were intended also for infants and children. This combined historical and archaeological investigation provides insights in relation to the morbidity and mortality of the people who both lived at and worked for the henequen haciendas. It also reveals how they tried to counteract the numerous and varied ailments they suffered during their everyday lives.
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