The social anthropology of death 21 Cross-cultural generalizations and the New
Archaeology's search for middle range theory 27 Funerary practices: agency, power and …

The first edition of The Archaeology of Childhood has been credited by many as launching
an entire new area of scholarship in archaeology. This second edition, published 17 years …

Current images portray childhood as primarily a time of play and learning, de-emphasizing
children's economic contributions and relegating them, like women, to the less-visible realm …

Landscapes of Neolithic Ireland is the first volume to be devoted solely to the Irish Neolithic,
using an innovative landscape and anthropological perspective to provide significant new …

This is the first book to focus entirely on children and material culture. The contributors ask:*
what is the relationship between children and the material world?* how does the material …

This book presents a new perspective on the social milieu of the Early and Middle Neolithic
in Central Europe as viewed through relations between humans and animals, food …

Bone collagen stable carbon isotope values obtained from late Mesolithic and earlier
Neolithic skeletal remains from the Dnieper Rapids region of Ukraine confirm an overall …

Background I arrived at this study along an experiential path. As a child I explored the
sunken and mysterious hollow ways of the chalk downland where I grew up and which have …

Food has long served as a mechanism for identifying and reinforcing social structures, but
while carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis has provided important identity-based evidence …

There are few carbon and nitrogen isotope ratio studies for prehistoric periods in the
northern part of the Iberian Peninsula, none of strontium isotopes. While most of the …