To browse Academia. Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Log in with Facebook Log in with Google. Remember me on this computer. Enter the email address you signed up with and we'll email you a reset link. Need an account? Click here to sign up. Sherry C. Fox The bioarchaeology of children in Graeco-Roman Greece he study of children in antiquity has been popular among anthropologists and archaeologists in recent years as witnessed by the conference from which this volume originated and as evidenced by numerous publications, including for example, a new journal, Childhood in the Past, published by Oxbow.
Possibly due to the multiple centers of ossiication among bones from immature individuals, archaeologists unfamiliar with human growth and development, may not have been as readily able to identify as humans in situ remains of children. Separate burial grounds for children T 1. The author greatly acknowledges the organizers of the conference from which this volume originated for their kind invitation to participate. LeWiS , p. FOX and deposition in unique contexts contribute to their lack of recovery.
A mitigating factor could involve the type of burial. Issues of terminology with regard to age categories of children have confounded the comparative process, and as such, the results of bioarchaeological analysis of the remains of children often cannot be readily compared.
Bioarchaeologists have not been readily proicient at determining the sex of subadult human skeletal remains, in particular individuals who have not reached puberty at the times of their deaths. Morphological analyses of the pelvis 15 and skull 16 can help discern sex in subadult remains as can metrical analyses of deciduous dentition, 17 but these techniques require further testing with collections of known children, which are a rarity.
Bioarchaeologists are proicient at estimating age at death among subadult material. Especially pertinent for assessing neonatal live births from still births, presence of the 6. BouRBou, theMeliS MoSChoniSSioti SaunDeRS ; laGia ShutKoWSKi BlaCK Drawing Elizabeth DeForest neonatal line when visible from dental thin section suggests a live birth. Unfortunately, absence does not necessarily indicate a stillbirth as babies can survive up to 2.
