significant amount of effort and care was placed into children’s burials. In Chapter 14, Heidi Dawson-Hobbis examines the prevalence of stress markers exhibited on subadult skeletons alongside associated funerary treatment from three medieval cemeteries in England, noting that high status subadults possessed the highest prevalence rates. Chapter 15, by Eileen Murphy, focuses on an extensive range of funerary characteristics from juvenile burials at the later medieval Gaelic cemetery of Ballyhanna in Co. Donegal (Ireland) as a means of understanding ideological beliefs, agency of the living and the relationship between the living and those they buried at this site. The final chapter of this monograph, by Jonny Geber, explores the mortuary treatment of children from the nineteenth century Kilkenny Workhouse in Ireland. Archaeological and archival evidence revealed that children and adults were treated the same in death. Overall, this is a well-edited monograph and demonstrates the value of adopting multi-disciplinary methods and novel approaches in this field of research. One of the main strengths of this volume is the wide scope of geographical regions and temporal periods addressed, many of which have been overlooked by scholars in the past. These papers highlight the importance of studying juveniles from archaeological sites as they can provide a unique insight into identities, social structures and interactions between the living and the dead. Whilst the majority of chapters (10/16) focus on children in prehistory, the central themes that run throughout each paper make this volume relevant to any scholar interested in the study of children, death and burial, regardless of temporal period.

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乔叟和孩子

为儿童的墓葬付出了大量的努力和关怀。在第 14 章中，海蒂·道森-霍比斯 (Heidi Dawson-Hobbis) 检查了在英格兰三个中世纪墓地的亚成人骨骼上展示的压力标记以及相关丧葬处理的流行情况，并指出地位高的亚成人拥有最高的流行率。第 15 章由艾琳·墨菲 (Eileen Murphy) 撰写，重点介绍了位于 Co. Donegal（爱尔兰）的 Ballyhanna 中世纪晚期盖尔墓地的少年墓葬的广泛葬礼特征，以此作为理解意识形态信仰、生者的能动性以及与生活和他们埋葬在这个地方的人。这本专着的最后一章由 Jonny Geber 撰写，探讨了来自 19 世纪爱尔兰基尔肯尼济贫院的儿童的太平间待遇。考古和档案证据表明，儿童和成人在死亡时受到同样的对待。总体而言，这是一本编辑良好的专着，展示了在该研究领域采用多学科方法和新颖方法的价值。本书的主要优势之一是涵盖了广泛的地理区域和时间段，其中许多在过去被学者所忽视。这些论文强调了研究考古遗址中的少年的重要性，因为它们可以提供对身份、社会结构以及生者与死者之间相互作用的独特见解。虽然大部分章节 (10/16) 都关注史前儿童，但贯穿每篇论文的中心主题使本书与任何对儿童、死亡和埋葬研究感兴趣的学者相关，