Robin Derricourt

Unearthing childhood

Young lives in prehistory

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Prehistoric children can be seen in footprints and finger daubs, in images painted on rocks and pots, in the signs of play and the evidence of first attempts to learn practical crafts. Readers in archeology and those with interests in childhood will gain new perspectives from this survey of the deep past.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 624g
• ISBN-13: 9781526128935
• ISBN-10: 1526128934
• Artikelnr.: 51314694

Autorenporträt

Robin Derricourt is Honorary Associate Professor in History at the University of New South Wales. He is the author of Inventing Africa (Pluto, 2011).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface 1 Understanding: the deep past of childhood 2 Being: birth,
motherhood and infancy 3 Growing: the child in its family 4 Feeding:
weaning, eating and health 5 Wearing: clothing, adornment and body shaping
6 Learning: knowledge and skills 7 Playing: fun, games, toys and culture 8
Fighting: conflict and violence 9 Dying I: death and burial in forager
societies 10 Dying II: death and burial in Old World farming societies 11
Progressing: the future of childhood's deep past Index of places General
index