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Abstract
A contextual analysis of Latin burials between the end of the Final Bronze Age and the end of the Orientalizing Age with a comparative perspective to Etruscan and other central Italian populations, seems to suggest that there was an important age threshold between infant below 3–5 years of age and children older than this age. Children below this age generally lack gender and status role indicators while children above this age might have these types of indicators.
According to literary sources, ethnographic accounts and modern psychology studies this might be linked to the important stage of development of speech but also to the cessation of breastfeeding and the completion of weaning and the emancipation of the child from exclusive maternal care. Similarly those sources show how children between 4/5 years of age and 8/10 years of age acquire a new status different from that of infants due to the development of important social abilities and skills together with gender awareness.
With the advent of urban societies more infant of exceptional wealth tend to receive gender as well as status indicators. This seem to suggest that by this time the belonging to the aristocratic group intersects and overrules sex and age boundaries.
According to literary sources, ethnographic accounts and modern psychology studies this might be linked to the important stage of development of speech but also to the cessation of breastfeeding and the completion of weaning and the emancipation of the child from exclusive maternal care. Similarly those sources show how children between 4/5 years of age and 8/10 years of age acquire a new status different from that of infants due to the development of important social abilities and skills together with gender awareness.
With the advent of urban societies more infant of exceptional wealth tend to receive gender as well as status indicators. This seem to suggest that by this time the belonging to the aristocratic group intersects and overrules sex and age boundaries.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | From invisible to visible: new data and methods for the archaeology of infant and child burials in pre-Roman Italy |
Editors | Tabolli Jacopo |
Publisher | Astrom Edition |
Chapter | 1 |
Publication status | Accepted/In press - 1 Jan 2018 |
Publication series
Name | Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology (SIMA) |
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Publisher | Astrom Editions |
Keywords
- Infancy
- identity
- Italy
- Urbanization
- childhood
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From Invisible to Visible: New Data and Methods for the Archaeology of Infant and Child Burials in Pre-Roman ItalyTrinity College Dublin 25th-26th April 2017
Francesca Fulminante (Participant)
25 Apr 2017 → 26 Apr 2017Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference