Outputs (3)

Ideas of Childhood in Roman Britain: The Bioarchaeological and Material Evidence (2014)
Book Chapter
Gowland, R. (2016). Ideas of Childhood in Roman Britain: The Bioarchaeological and Material Evidence. In M. Millett, L. Revell, & A. J. Moore (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of Roman Britain (303-320). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199697731.013.019

Since the 1990s there has been a burgeoning focus on the experience and treatment of children in the ancient world. The majority of studies have utilized historical and iconographic sources more than the archaeological record, resulting in an image o... Read More about Ideas of Childhood in Roman Britain: The Bioarchaeological and Material Evidence.

On the brink of being: re-evaluating infanticide and infant burial in Roman Britain (2014)
Journal Article
Gowland, R., Chamberlain, A., & Redfern, R. (2014). On the brink of being: re-evaluating infanticide and infant burial in Roman Britain. Journal of Roman archaeology. Supplementary series, 96, 69-88

The Children of the Reformation: Childhood Palaeoepidemiology in Britain, ad 1000–1700 (2014)
Journal Article
Penny-Mason, B. J., & Gowland, R. L. (2014). The Children of the Reformation: Childhood Palaeoepidemiology in Britain, ad 1000–1700. Medieval Archaeology, 58(1), 162-194. https://doi.org/10.1179/0076609714z.00000000035

CHILDHOOD IS A TIME of rapid biological growth and development, and a stage of the life course during which bodies are particularly sensitive to social and environmental stressors. As a consequence, events which may impact upon a child’s care and tre... Read More about The Children of the Reformation: Childhood Palaeoepidemiology in Britain, ad 1000–1700.