"I Feel Like Taking Their Heads Off": Children in Fort Boise

Author(s): Nathan J. May

Year: 2018

Summary

The archaeology of children has been an increasingly visible part of historical scholarship in recent years. However, there are places where they are still not visible. Work by the University of Idaho on the former grounds of Fort Boise (in Boise, ID) has provided an opportunity to explore the archaeology of children in a most unexpected place - a military fort. Excavations in multiple contexts on the former grounds of the fort have resulted in the recovery of many children's items dating from the mid ninteenth to the early twentieth centuries. In addition, historical research has provided intriguing explanations for children's unexpected contributions (lithics) to the archaeological record.

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"I Feel Like Taking Their Heads Off": Children in Fort Boise. Nathan J. May. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, New Orleans, Louisiana. 2018 ( tDAR id: 441244)

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Spatial Coverage

min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;

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Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology

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PaperId(s): 942