Full Description
Adolescence is a critical period of the life course, encapsulating biological and social changes as individuals transition from childhood to adulthood. While the archaeology of childhood is a rapidly growing field, there has been little formal discussion on how adolescence may be biologically or socially defined and the spatial and temporal variability within these definitions. This book explores the meaning of adolescence through the analysis of material culture, historical documents, skeletal remains, isotope analysis, and other lines of evidence. Considering the implications for archaeologists and biological anthropologists, this book investigates the lived experiences of adolescents in the past to further our understanding of past societies.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Introduction: The (Bio)Archaeology of Adolescence
Creighton Avery and Dana Thacher
Chapter 1. Adolescence in the European Upper Paleolithic: Are There Temporal and Spatial Trends?
Jennifer French and April Nowell
Chapter 2. From Childhood to Adulthood in Iberia During the Bell Beaker Period (2500-2000 cal. BC) 34
Ana M. Herrero Corral
Chapter 3. A Tale of Two Cities: Exploring the Biological and Social Transformations of Adolescence in the Roman Empire
Creighton Avery
Chapter 4. Being and Becoming: The Archaeology of Adolescence in the Ancient Andes
Sarah I. Baitzel, Bridget C. Bey, and Allisen C. Dahlstedt
Chapter 5. Viking Age Adolescence: An Osteoarchaeological Assessment of Puberty in a Gotlandic Viking Age Community
Marieke Ivarsson-Aalders
Chapter 6. Crime, Punishment, and Adolescent Wrongdoers in Early Medieval England
Dawn Hadley
Chapter 7. The Body and Gendered Ideology as Expressed Through Adolescent Commemoration in Victorian and Edwardian England
Dana Thacher
Chapter 8. Transitional Youths: Defining "Adolescence" in Nineteenth-Century New York City Through Skeletal Remains
Meredith Ellis
Conclusion: The (Bio)Archaeology of Adolescence: Challenges and Opportunities
Kathryn Kamp
Final Remarks
Index
