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The study examines modern constructions of the “infant,” the cultural mechanisms of control, and changing attitudes toward mortality. It analyzes themes such as infant mortality and denial of the dead, evolutionary perspectives on parenting and infanticide, domestic killing and exposure, sacrifice practices, and burial treatments from prehistoric to historical periods, concluding with key interpretive debates.","THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF INFANCY AND INFANT DEATH\nELEANOR SCOTT\n© E Scott 1999\nOriginally published by Archaeopress, Publishers of British Archaeological Reports, Oxford\nBAR S819 (International Series)\nISBN 1 84171 032 6\nContents\nDetailed Contents\nAcknowledgements\nPreface\nList of Figures (Illustrations)\n1\tIntroduction\n2\tModernity and Infancy\n3\tInfant Death and Mortality\n4\tEvolution and Infancy\n5\tBaby Booming: aspects of pregnancy, childbirth and infant care\n6\tDomestic Infanticide\n7\tSacrifice\n8\tPrehistoric Infant Burials\n9\tInfant Burials in Historical Periods\n10\tConclusions\nReferences\nDetailed chapter contents\n1\tIntroduction\nContext and interpretation. Writing a study of infancy and infant death. The power of the contradictory infant: defining infancy. Identifying the gap in archaeology; why an interest in infancy? Some theoretical considerations; age and gender processes and cultural transmission; sex is to gender as biological age is to...? Sharpening the visibility of women and children; time and texts.\n2\tModernity and Infancy\nThe modern infant; commodification of the infant. The rituals of life giving. Breastfeeding; the sexuality of breastfeeding. The culture of control; the infant as contradiction; baby care books of the twentieth century. Bodies of expectations; gendering the baby; long-term expectations of the infant. The analysed infant; the sexualized infant; the psychoanalysed infant; the scientifically observed infant. Conclusions: the importance of recognising modern ideas of infancy.\n3\tInfant Death and Mortality\nImages of and attitudes to infant death; newborn infant death; denied the society of the dead; Milton Cemetery, Portsmouth. Murderous adults; infant mortality rates; mortality rates for women. Abortion; accusations of abortion as infanticide; screening and termination; historical implications. Conclusions: the importance of recognising modern values and ideas assigned to infant death.\n4\tEvolution and Infancy\nHuman evolution and the role of the infant. Big brains and parent-infant conflict. The female and infant in evolution; pre-eclampsia; bipedalism and neoteny; the baby sling; the sexual divisions of labour and the significance of diet; parenting. The infant as encumbrance; crying; sharing costs? An evolutionary theory of parenting styles. Infants and languages. Evolutionary perspectives on infanticide. Conclusions: main themes, controversies and potential myths.\n5\tBaby Booming: aspects of pregnancy, childbirth and infant care\nThe prehistoric “baby boom”; birth spacing; childbirth, pain and danger; prehistoric childbirth and infant care; Taylor’s feeding theory; weaning and midwifery. The controlling of diet in pregnancy; the infant diet. Constructed childbirth; age and parity; childbirth as pollution; brave women: Aztec childbirth. Infant care; metaphors and tensions; cradleboards and head-shaping; mediaeval cleansing. Gendering infants. Toys and play. Conclusions: baby booming and the world of the infant.\n6\tDomestic Infanticide\nWhat is infanticide?; widening the definition. Detecting infanticide in the archaeological record; killing the male? killing the female? fear and loathing. Ancient Rome: Ovid’s tale; an Egyptian story of exposure; attitudes towards daughters; the real economic value of women; excess female mortality in India and China; dowries, bride-price and inheritance; the shortage of upper class women in ancient Rome; images of infants in ancient Rome; the law and infanticide. Viking Scandinavia. Post-Mediaeval England and colonial USA; infanticide and illegitimacy. Abandonment and exposure - early adoption lottery? Conclusions: infanticide in perspective.\n7\tSacrifice\nInfanticide as performance. The Phoenician practice; the tophet; acts of sacrifice? Inka capacocha sacrifices; Inka young dead. Moche infant deposits. Sacrifice and domestic infanticide; Springhead. 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