"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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Keywords
General
Children
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Fort
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Idaho
Geographic Keywords
North America
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United States of America
Temporal Keywords
mid nineteenth to early twentieth centuries
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 942