Scientific programme

Preliminary scientific programme

  • Thursday November 21st, 2024

08:30

09:20

Welcome of participants                

09:20

09:40

Introduction to the conference       

09:40

11:20

Redefining concepts and methods to study the children of the past

09:40

 

A. Volk, Life History Theory from a Historical Perspective

10:00

 

O. Dutour et al., Quick death but hard signature: palaeopathology and the recognition of childhood mortality causes escaping the osteological paradox

10:20

 

K. Squires et al., A multi-disciplinary approach to studying the Angioletti of Palermo: a case study exploring the benefits and challenges of interdisciplinary non-adult mummy research

10:40

 

H. Shaw et al., ”Tumbling up” during the industrial revolution: sex-specific health and growth patterns in children from the Coach Lane cemetery

11:00

 

P. Blaževičius et al., When Beauty turns into a threat: the story of one girl

11:20

12:30

Coffee/tea break & poster session  

 

1

L. Balj, Revealing childhood in Prehistory: an interdisciplinary approach to interpreting prehistoric miniature ceramic artefacts

 

2

A. Cavaré, Prevalence and patterns of dental agenesis in the Sains-en-Gohelle collection (Pas-de-Calais, France, 7th-16th centuries CE)

 

3

D. Coutinho Nogueira et al., Preserving the past: integrating advanced techniques in the study of a Final Mesolithic child burial at Cabeço da Amoreira (Muge, Portugal)

 

4

S.-P. Gilson et al., Once upon a time, there were children in the Brazilian southern coast archaeological settlements

 

5

M. Le Luyer et al., Identifying and characterizing physiological and environmental stressors impacting childhood in Neolithic societies: investigating stress proteins in teeth

 

6

C. Libor et al., The crown you never take off. Non-adult burials with ”párta” from Szécsény, Hungary

 

7

M. Lucas et al., Infant death during the Iron Age: the case of El Palomar (Oliete, Iberian Peninsula)

 

8

T. Majo et al., Interdisciplinary methodological proposal for the study of the funerary treatment of the early chilhood of the Catalan nobility of the 14th century buried in the monastery of Santes Creus (Aiguamúrcia, Alt Camp, Catalonia, Spain)

 

9

A. Volk, Adolescent bullying in western history

 

10

A. Zinn et al., Identification and evolution of rickets and scurvy therapeutics between the 17th and 19th centuries CE: archaeo- and palaeopharmacological approach

12:30

14:00

Lunch break                                    

14:00

15:40

Early tales from bones and muscles

14:00

 

L. Coiffard et al., Ships’ boys, nippers and powder monkies: skeletal evidence for life at sea at an early age from the Stray Park British Naval Cemetery (Plymouth, U.K.)

14:20

 

K. Swan et al., Functional advantages of cortical bone frontloading during early growth and locomotor development

14:40

15:40

Keynote: A. Ireland, How muscles shape the growing skeleton?       

15:40

16:10

Coffee/Tea break                            

16:10

17:50

Goods, games or toys, what makes a child a child?

16:10

 

V. Losyte, From child to citizen: toys in ancient Greek rites of passage

16:30

 

M. Mitrović, The role of knapping in child development and learning

16:50

 

S. Juarez, Unseen but ubiquitous: Children in the Preclassic Maya community of Noh K’uh

17:10

 

C. Libor et al., Another brick in the wall – Different perspectives of child burials from Avar Period, Hungary

17:30

 

M. Licata et al., Children of the past. The bioarchaeological discoveries of Santa Maria Maggiore in Vercelli

20:00

 

Conference dinner                         

  • Friday November 22nd, 2024

09:00

09:20

Welcome of participants                

09:20

11:00

Early life experiences and the mother-infant relationships

09:20

 

O. Nechyparenka & C. Aris, Unveiling early-life stress: a histological analysis of dental stress markers

09:40

 

M. Le Luyer et al., Baby teeth as biomarkers of childhood growth: interdisciplinarity insights from the STRONG study

10:00

 

M. Lourenco et al., Early life survival challenges in Modern Lisbon (17th-19th centuries), Portugal

10:20

 

C. Feuillatre et al., Isotope analysis through the ages: from tracking breastfeeding in past populations to tackling the modern obesity epidemic

10:40

 

J. Beaumont et al., Keep it in the family: what can modern sibling studies tell us about weaning behaviour?

11:00

11:30

Coffee/Tea break                            

11:30

12:30

Keynote: J. Provasi, The influence of the maternal environment on fœtal learning

12:30

14:00

Lunch break                                    

14:00

15:00

Early life experiences and the mother-infant relationships (continuation)

14:00

 

E. E. Peacock et al., Entrance to the kingdom of God – at all costs. Finds of hidden, coffined foetal burials in Swedish churches

14:20

 

M. Guillon et al., Why bury together? Funerary expressions of death during gestation and childbirth in catholic and protestant populations in 18th century la Rochelle

14:40

 

J. Estivals et al., Enamel hypomineralisations in children: a current and historical enamel anomaly

15:00

15:20

Coffee/Tea break                             

15:20

16:20

Displaced lives, impact of forced or voluntary migrations on children

15:20

 

J. de Mello Moraes, Children as future subjects of the monarchy and their education and functions during the Portuguese colonization of South America

15:40

 

S. Rodríguez Caraballo et al., Children from the first European settlement in the Canary Islands, San Marcial del Rubicón

16:00

 

L. Vilumets & Ü. Aguraiuja-Lätti, Fragile lives of immigrant children – multidisciplinary analysis of non-adult skeletal remains from the 18th century garrison hospital cemetery in Tallinn, Estonia

16:20

16:40

Coffee/Tea break                             

16:40

 

K. Delucia et al., Children's burials and structural violence in colonial Mexico

17:00

 

A. Fofana Leon & N. Da Graça Jaime, Children in Southeastern Africa: medicine, enslavement and the rade in Enslaved “Mozambiques,” 1752-1800

17:20

 

M. B. Krause & T. A. Tung, Childhood in the Wari Empire: a bioarchaeological exploration of weaning, dietary patterns, and locality in a Middle Horizon (600-1000 CE) Andean community

17:40

18:00

Conclusive remarks

 

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