The Value of Children in Ancient Egypt

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Children have long been considered one of the "invisible" communities of the ancient world. As they are infrequently mentioned in texts and incapable of constructing their own mortuary narratives, Egyptologists and archaeologists have contented themselves with only a basic understanding of the position of children in ancient Egyptian society; however, through the manipulation of economic information, in comparison with funerary evidence, it is possible to examine the "value" of children from ancient Egypt. This approach provides a new means to assess the position of these individuals, and to deliver a more nuanced and emotional understanding of children in the ancient Egyptian family.

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• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 24570