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The nine papers presented here set out to broaden the recent focus of archaeological evidence for medieval children and childhood and to offer new ways of exploring their lives and experiences. The everyday use of space and changes in the layout of buildings are examined, in order to reveal how these impacted upon the daily practices and tasks of household tasks relating to the upbringing of children. Aspects of work and play are explored: how, archaeologically, we can determine whether, and in what context, children played board and dice games? How we may gain insights into the medieval count

Living in Viking-age towns / David Griffiths -- Towns and identities in Viking England / Gareth Williams -- Viking Dublin: enmities, alliances and the cold gleam of silver / Emer Purcell and John Sheehan -- Constructing and experiencing urban landscapes. -- Beyond Longphuirt? Life and death in early Viking-age Ireland / Stephen H. Harrison -- From country to town: social transitions in Viking-age housing / Rebecca Boyd -- Childhood in Viking and Hiberno-Scandinavian Dublin, 800-1100 / Deirdre McAlister -- Whither the warrior in Viking-age towns? / D.M. Hadley -- Aristocrats, burghers and their markets: patterns in the foundation of Lincoln's urban churches / David Stocker -- Urban trades and activities. -- More than just meat: animals in Viking-age towns / Kristopher Poole -- No pots please, we're Vikings: pottery in the southern Danelaw, 850-1000 / Paul Blinkhorn -- Of towns and trinkets: metalworking and metal dress-accessories in Viking-age Lincoln / Letty Ten Harkel -- Making a good comb: mercantile identity in 9th- to 11th-century England / Steven P. Ashby -- Craft and handiwork: wood, antler and bone as an everyday material in Viking-age Waterford and Cork / Maurice F. Hurley.

Real understanding of past societies is not possible without including children, and yet they have been strangely invisible in the archaeological record. Compelling explanation about past societies cannot be achieved without including and investigating children and childhood.00However marginal the traces of children's bodies and bricolage may seem compared to adults, archaeological evidence of children and childhood can be found in the most astonishing places and spaces. The archaeology of childhood is one of the most exciting and challenging areas for new discovery about past societies. Children are part of every human society, but childhood is a cultural construct. Each society develops its own idea about what a childhood should be, what children can or should do, and how they are trained to take their place in the world. Children also play a part in creating the archaeological record itself

Real understanding of past societies is not possible without including children, and yet they have been strangely invisible in the archaeological record. Compelling explanation about past societies cannot be achieved without including and investigating children and childhood.00However marginal the traces of children's bodies and bricolage may seem compared to adults, archaeological evidence of children and childhood can be found in the most astonishing places and spaces. The archaeology of childhood is one of the most exciting and challenging areas for new discovery about past societies. Children are part of every human society, but childhood is a cultural construct. Each society develops its own idea about what a childhood should be, what children can or should do, and how they are trained to take their place in the world. Children also play a part in creating the archaeological record itself