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Putting Children On The Map: Patterning Children's Behavior And Misbehavior In Graffiti From Roman Campania, Katherine Huntley
Putting Children On The Map: Patterning Children's Behavior And Misbehavior In Graffiti From Roman Campania, Katherine Huntley
Katherine V. Huntley
One of the major difficulties in studying children in the ancient world is the identification of their behavioral patterns in the archaeological record. Some argue that children’s activities are random and spontaneous and thus inaccessible to archaeologists (e.g. Hammond and Hammond 1981). Others note that children in the ancient Roman world mostly lacked distinctive roles, spaces and material culture, making evidence of their activities difficult to distinguish from those of adults (e.g. Wallace-Hadrill 1996). This paper tries to shift from the object-focused approach to childhood often employed in Roman archaeology in favor of directly focusing on the activities of children. …
Mapping Children's Behavior In Roman Campania Using Graffiti, Katherine Huntley
Mapping Children's Behavior In Roman Campania Using Graffiti, Katherine Huntley
Katherine V. Huntley
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