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Do Archaeologist Make Terrible Parents? Reflections from Finnish Children Books and from Real Life (2020)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Tiina Äikäs. Anna-Kaisa Salmi.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Women’s Work: Archaeology and Mothering" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In contemporary Finnish children books researchers, quite often archaeologists, are described as distant parents who travel constantly or are so absorbed by their work that they hardly notice their children. As archaeologists and parents, we wonder if an absent-minded researcher parent is just practical plot device for allowing the...