The Marking and Making of Social Persons: Embodied Understandings in the Archaeologies of Childhood and Adolescence
Part of: Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)
This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "The Marking and Making of Social Persons: Embodied Understandings in the Archaeologies of Childhood and Adolescence" at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
In the last 30 years, the archaeology of childhood and adolescence has gained traction to become an effervescent part of the broader discipline of archaeology. Childhood is a crucial period of life in which identity is formed as a dialogic process of social, environmental, material, spiritual, and cultural entanglements. This session examines embodied perspectives of children and/or adolescent experiences in archaeology, recognizing the body as a key site for ways of becoming, social practices, rites of passage, and cultural transmission and its reworkings. In line with many earlier studies of childhood in the past, this session is multidisciplinary in nature, combining biological and social approaches. It is also rooted in critical, reflexive approaches to social lives in antiquity. In particular, it seeks to emphasize the diversity, temporality, and intersectionality of the making of social persons in the past that considers the dynamics of sex, gender, kinship, community affiliations, and, of course, age.
Other Keywords
Bioarchaeology/Skeletal Analysis •
Gender and Childhood •
Mortuary Analysis •
Maya: Classic •
Mortuary archaeology •
childhood •
Andes: Middle Horizon •
Archaeology •
Colonialism •
Ornament
Geographic Keywords
United Mexican States (Country) •
Belize (Country) •
North America (Continent) •
Kingdom of Sweden (Country) •
Kingdom of Norway (Country) •
Isle of Man (Country) •
Faroe Islands (Country) •
Republic of Panama (Country) •
Republic of Colombia (Country) •
Netherlands Antilles (Country)
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- Documents (11)
- Canaries in the Coal Mine: How Children Reveal the Embodied Realities of Colonialism (2024)
- Childhood in the Wari World: A Bioarchaeological Investigation of Dietary Patterns in a Middle Horizon (600–1000 CE) Community (2024)
- Childness, Humanness, and Violence among the Precolonial Maya (2024)
- The Impacts of Absence and Displacement on Viking Age Childhood (2024)
- An Osteobiography of Tomb Op. 42, Ent. 5 from Copán, Honduras (2024)
- Precious People: Indigenous Medical-Spiritual Relations in the Archaeology of Maya Childhood (2024)
- Producing and Stretching Identity: Earspools and Childhood in the Maya Area (2024)
- The Question of Permanence: Understanding Head Shaping as a Process (2024)
- Rythm of Youth: Childhood in Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Liguria (2024)
- The Secret Lives of Paleolithic Teens: Puberty Assessment of Adolescents in the European Upper Paleolithic (2024)
- The Tiniest Burials: Fetal Burial and Personhood During the Late Roman Period in Egypt (2024)