Archaeology of Children

Abstract

Archaeology of children is a relatively new field of research within archaeology. This article gives an overview of the advancement of the subject and discusses theoretical and methodological approaches applied to the study of children in the past, such as terminology and theory of childhood, and proposes an alternative approach to children and childhood. The many-faceted worlds of children and children’s material culture are reconsidered from the perspective of phenomenology. Nature-culture relationships and spatial dimensions in the archaeology of children are explained with long-term perspectives for archaeology.