Güner Coskunsu is Assistant Professor of Archaeology at the Mardin Artuklu University, Turkey.

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Introduction: Children as Archaeological Enigma
Güner Coskunsu

Part I. Theorizing (In)visibility, Legitimacy, and Biases in Archaeological Approaches to Children and Childhood

1. The Devil¿s Advocate or Our Worst Case Scenario: The Archaeology of Childhood Without Any Children
Jane Eva Baxter
2. Making Children Legitimate: Negotiating the Place of Children and Childhoods in Archaeological Theory
Kathryn Kamp
3. Method and Theory for an Archaeology of Age
Scott R. Hutson
4. Bodies and Encounters: Seeing Invisible Children in Archaeology
Joanna Sofaer
5. Modern Biases, Hunter-Gatherers¿ Children: On the Visibility of Children in Other Cultures
Nurit Bird-David

Part II. Interdisciplinary and Archaeological Approaches to Studying Children and Childhood in the Past
6. Grown Up: Adult Height Dimorphism as an Archive of Living Conditions of Boys and Girls in Prehistory
Eva Rosenstock
7. Placing Children in Society: Using Ancient DNA to Identify Sex and Kinship of Child Skeletal Remains, and Implications for Gender and Social Organization
Keri A. Brown
8. Metaphors for Understanding Children and Their Role in Culture
Jack A. Meacham

Part III. Case Studies in the Archaeology of Childhood
9. Children of the Ice Age
Paul G. Bahn
10. Children in the Anthropomorphic Imagery of the European and Near Eastern Neolithic
Peter F. Biehl
11. From Playthings to Sacred Objects? Household Enculturation Rituals, Figurines, and Plastering Activities at Neolithic Catalhoyuk, Turkey
Sharon K. Moses
12. The Ends and Means of Childhood: Mourning Children in Early Greece
Susan Langdon
13. The Children's Cemetery of Lugnano in Teverina, Umbria: Hierarchy, Magic, and Malaria
David Soren
14. The Age of Consent: Children and Sexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome
Jeannine Diddle Uzzi
15. ¿A Place for Everything and Everything in Its Place¿: The Cultural Context of Late Victorian Toys
Kyle Somerville
Part IV. Commentaries
16. Theoretical Issues in Investigating Childhood
Frank Hole
17. Grubby Little Fingerprints: A Commentary on the Visibility of Childhood
Traci Ardren
Contributors
Index