The Child is Now 25 – A Short Introduction to a Special Issue

Abstract

This special issue originates from a symposium held at the 2014 Society for American Archaeology (SAA) meeting in Austin, Texas. The topic for the session was the identification and interpretation of the archaeological record of children. The session was titled 'The "child" is now 25: Recent research into the identification of children in the archaeological record and the development of associated theoretical perspectives'.