Rock Art and Children: Towards an Inter- Generational Perspective on Past and Present Visual Cultures

Sally K. May; Joakim Goldhahn

Rock Art and Children: Towards an Inter- Generational Perspective on Past and Present Visual Cultures

Sally K. May, Joakim Goldhahn

Discipline of Archaeology

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Abstract

There is a growing awareness that children have been overlooked and neglected within archaeological analyses and interpretations of past societies (e.g., Lillehammer 1989, 2015). The reason for this is manifold (see Crawford et al. 2018; Cunnar and Högberg 2015; Derricourt 2018; Langley and Lister 2018), but an apparent difficulty is that it is hard to denote the physical presence of a gendered person through analyses of material culture alone. Children are no exception. As other subaltern groups, children tend to become invisible in archaeological analyses, but the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. So, how can analyses of rock art be used to study children and childhood in the past?

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology
Editors	Claire Smith
Place of Publication	USA
Publisher	Springer USA
Number of pages	13
Edition	2
ISBN (Electronic)	9783030300173
ISBN (Print)	9783030300166
Publication status	Published - 30 Nov 2020

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