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Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Figures -- Tables -- Chapter One Population Aggregation and Early Urbanization from a Comparative Perspective: An Introduction to the Volume -- Comparative Perspectives in the Study of Nucleated Settlements -- Methodological Perspectives in the Study of Nucleated Settlements -- Coming Together: Origins and Processes -- Pathways to Sustainability: Challenges and Resolutions -- Transformative Effects: Social, Political, and Cultural Change -- Final Remarks -- Acknowledgments -- References Cited -- Chapter Two Energized Crowding and the Generative Role of Settlement Aggregation and Urbanization -- Cities, Population, and Energized Crowding: The Power of Face-to-Face Interactions -- Population Size and Density -- Village Aggregation and Urbanization -- Communication, Energized Crowding, and Cities -- The Effects of Energized Crowding -- Energized Crowding Generates Scalar Stress -- Energized Crowding Drives Community Formation -- Energized Crowding Leads to Economic and Urban Growth -- Settlement Scaling and Generative Processes -- Contemporary Urban Systems -- The Social Reactors Model -- Expansion of the Framework to Premodern Settlement Systems -- Discussion -- Acknowledgments -- Note -- References Cited -- Section I: Coming Together: Origins and Processes -- Chapter Three ". . . the nearest run thing . . ." The Genesis and Collapse of a Bronze Age Polity in the Maros Valley of Southeastern Europe -- The Problem with Population -- Pecica Şanţul Mare and the Maros Culture -- Settlement Expansion, Aggregation, and Dispersal in the Maros Region -- The Rise and Fall of Pecica Şanţul Mare -- The Initial Period: 1950-1900 B.C. -- The Formative Period: 1900-1820 B.C. -- The Florescent Period: 1820-1680 B.C. -- Final Phase: 1680-1545 B.C. -- Discussion -- Acknowledgments -- Note -- References Cited.

Introduction: Children as archaeological enigma / Güner Coskunsu -- Section 1. Theorizing (in)visbility, legitimacy, and biases in archaeological approaches to children and childhood -- The devil's advocate or our worst case scenario : the archaeology of childhood without any children / Jane Eva Baxter -- Making children legitimate : negotiating the place of children and childhoods in archaeological theory / Kathryn Kamp -- Considerations for method and theory in the archaeology of age / Scott Hutson -- Bodies and encounters : seeing invisible children in archaeology / Joanna Sofaer -- Modern biases, hunter-gatherers' children : on the visibility of children in other cultures / Nurit-Bird-David -- Section 2. Interdisciplinary and archaeological approaches to studying children and childhood in the past -- Grown up : adult height dimorphism as an archive of living conditions of boys and girls in prehistory / Eva Rosenstock -- Placing children in society : using ancient DNA to identify sex and kinship of child skeletal remains, and implications for gender and social organisation / Keri Brown -- Metaphors for understanding children and their role in culture / Jack Meacham -- Section 3. Case studies in the archaeology of childhood -- Children of the Ice Age / Paul Bahn -- Children in the anthropomorphic imagery of the European and Near Eastern Neolithic / Peter Biehl -- From playthings to sacred objects? : household enculturation rituals, figurines and plastering activities at Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Turkey / Sharon Moses -- The ends and means of childhood : mourning children in early Greece / Susan Langdon -- The Children's Cemetery of Lugnano in Teverina, Umbria : hierarchy, magic and malaria / David Soren -- Ethnicity and sexuality in Roman imperial relief : reconstructing the pederastic gaze / Jeannine Diddle Uzzi -- "A place for everything and everything in its place" : the cultural context of late Victorian toys / Kyle Somerville -- Section 4commentaries -- Theoretical issues in investigating childhood / Frank Hole -- Grubby little fingerprints : a commentary on the visibility of childhood / Traci Ardren

"Explores sacrificial practices across a range of contexts from prehistory to the present. The term 'sacrifice' belies what is a complex and varied transhistorical and transcultural phenomenon. Bringing together scholars from such diverse fields as anthropology, archaeology, epigraphy, literature, and theology, Diversity of Sacrifice explores sacrificial practices across a range of contexts from prehistory to the present. Incorporating theory, material culture, and textual evidence, the volume seeks to consider new and divergent data related to contexts of sacrifice that can help broaden our field of vision while raising new questions. The essays contributed here move beyond reductive and simple explanations to explore complex areas of social interaction. Sacrifice plays a key role in the overlapping sacred and secular spheres for a number of societies in the past and present. How religious beliefs and practices can be integral parts of life on individual and community levels is of fundamental importance to understanding the past and present. In addition to aiding scholarly research, Diversity of Sacrifice enables students to explore this rich theme across Europe and the Mediterranean with clear discussions of theory and data"--From publisher's website