Ageing (Other Keyword)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Today more people reach old age than ever before and it is providing us with new challenges and options. The aged persons have been around before our times as well and in this changing world it is important to understand the past of aging and how it affected individuals and society back then. This paper is about older adults and...
Osteobiography as Local Biology (2017)
Osteobiography is an increasingly popular approach, but one that can have the effect of producing unproblematised, individualised approaches to the life course. In this paper I wish to explore how we can create a theoretically informed osteobiography. I propose two strands to this. Firstly, rather than osteobiography being something that ‘happens to’ individuals living in a society, I suggest that it constantly emerges through inter-relations with culturally specific understandings of the person...