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The Lives and Deaths of Moche Valley Children: What Endocranial Lesions Can Tell Us (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Genesis Torres Morales. Celeste Gagnon. Gabriel Prieto.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Children’s lives were mostly largely excluded from bioarchaeology analyses before the 1990s. Since then, a new focus on the bioarchaeology of children has illuminated the importance of the lived experiences of childhood for understanding past societies. In this research, we examined the remains of 270 children who died before they were six years old, who were...