Unearthing childhood Young lives in prehistory 1st Edition by Robin Derricourt ISBN 1526128934 9781526128935

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ISBN 10: 1526128934
ISBN 13: 9781526128935
Author: Robin Derricourt

Unearthing childhood Young lives in prehistory 1st Edition Table of contents:

1 UNDERSTANDING The deep past of childhood

Who are children, what is childhood?

The missing children

The use of analogy

Recent hunter-gatherers

Higher primate relatives

The framework of hominin prehistory

The deep past

Notes

2 BEING Birth, motherhood and infancy

Primate dependency and independence

Evolution of the hominin family

Mothers and babies

Notes

3 GROWING The child in the family

Visual impressions of the prehistoric family

The ‘traditional’ family

Carrying a young child

Questions and answers

Notes

4 FEEDING Weaning, eating and health

Great apes

Prehistoric forager weaning and after

Food provision and diet in modern small-scale societies

Weaning and food preparation in agricultural groups

Diet and health

Conclusions

Notes

5 WEARING Clothing, adornment and body shaping

Ornamentation and clothes

Prehistoric foragers’ body covering and body ornamentation

Prehistoric agriculturalist clothing and adornment

Body shaping

Conclusions

Notes

6 LEARNING Knowledge and skills

Learning and tool use among the great apes

Hominin evolution and knowledge transmission

Learning and work in recent small-scale societies

Stone tools and apprenticeship

Children’s involvement in rock art

Pottery and crafts in prehistoric farming communities

Conclusions

Notes

7 PLAYING Fun, games, toys and culture

Primates at play

Foragers and farmers, ancient and modern

Games, toys and miniature items

Children’s dolls and adult figures

Conclusions

Notes

8 FIGHTING Conflict and violence

Archaeological evidence of conflict

Conflict and violence among prehistoric foragers

Conflict and violence among prehistoric farmers

Sacrifice

Toy and real weapons

Conclusions

Notes

9 DYING 1 Death and burial in forager societies

The death of children

Great apes

Australopithecines

Early Homo

Neanderthals and the Middle Palaeolithic

Homo sapiens and the Upper Palaeolithic

Advanced foragers of the prehistoric world

Modern hunter-gatherers

Conclusions

Notes

10 DYING 2 Death and burial in Old World farming societies

Neolithic of the Middle East and Europe

Copper and Bronze Ages of the Middle East and Europe

Iron Age Europe

African farmers

Other regions

Conclusions

Notes

11 PROGRESSING The future of childhood’s deep past

Notes

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