Gillian Shepherd
Biographic Data
| ID | 3623028 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gillian Shepherd |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gillian |
| FAMILY NAME | Shepherd |
| SIGNATURE | SHEPHERD G |
| AFFILIATIONS | La Trobe University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 13 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Narratives on child and childhood in Greek city-states: An interview with Gillian Shepherd
Interview with Gillian Shepherd
Above and Below the Surface
This chapter addresses children’s lives and living conditions during the early modern period in Sweden. A case study on the population at one of Sweden’s most important historical mines, the Sala Silver mine forms the basis for a discussion about children’s work, their diets, and how gender roles and social status may have affected their health. Two sources provide complementing and sometimes contradicting information about how children’s lives w…
Educating Victorian Children
This chapter presents a case study of the archaeology of a mid-nineteenth century school in Cambridge (England), placing the features associated with the school and the material associated with them in the wider context of children’s material culture, education, and the rapidly changing nature of nineteenth century childhood, considering the material culture that children interacted with in its totality, not just child-specific forms. This allows…
Representations of Children in Ancient Greece
Children’s representations appear early in the Greek visual material culture: first they appear in the large funerary vases of the geometric period, while in the archaic period they appear in funerary reliefs and vases. To the representations in vase painting, those in terracotta statuettes can be added in the fifth century, but it is in the fourth century bc that children become a noteworthy subject of representation, appearing both in small- an…
The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Childhood
Real understanding of past societies is not possible without including children, and yet they have been strangely invisible in the archaeological record. In this volume, experts from around the world investigate childhood in the past, showing why it is important to understand childhood, why different cultures construct different ideas of how to rear children, what part children play in the community, and when and why childhood ends. The contribut…
Material Culture and Childhood in Harappan South Asia
The Harappan Civilization came up in the mid-third millennium bce over an area that extended over much of the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent. This chapter will specifically focus on two major cities, Mohenjodaro and Harappa, to discuss material culture and childhood in Harappan South Asia, including the wide range of arguably child-related objects found at these sites which provide a lens through which we can get a glimpse of quotid…
Vecino Archaeology and the Politics of Play in New Mexico, USA
In the discussion that follows, I explore the effects of modernity on Hispano (Vecino) children on the Ranchos de Taos Plaza in northern New Mexico (United States of America) from the late 1800s American invasion of the Southwest up to the present infiltration of the village by tourists and travellers. Data are derived from archaeological excavations and survey at two households in the St Francis of Assisi Parish that have been continuously occup…
Roman Sarcophagi and Children
The chapter opens by defining ‘Roman’ and ‘children’ (in Roman sarcophagus terms) and problems inherent in both. The discussion starts with a brief description and outline of Roman burial practices involving sarcophagus burials, including how the city of Rome may have differed from e.g. northern Italy in terms of children and sarcophagi. The discussion then moves onto the reliefs that decorated sarcophagi and to the key question of how far their …
Roman Household Organization
This chapter surveys current perspectives on children and stages of childhood within Roman households and examines how archaeological evidence for household organization can change these perspectives. It discusses what can be gleaned from analyses of archaeological evidence for household space and household activities, and notably from assessing skeletal remains, material culture, and decoration. It discusses what this evidence can tell us about …
The Developing Forager
Studies of regional and chronological variation in skeletal markers of physical activity in past hunter-gatherer populations typically focus on adults, however, patterns of bone strength develop predominantly during childhood and adolescence. Ethnographic studies suggest that differences in environment and subsistence strategy would have brought about variation in how children grew up to be productive foragers capable of procuring food for themse…
Working-class Childhood in Nineteenth-century New York City
The children in New York City’s nineteenth-century working-class immigrant families were explorers. It was they, more than their parents, who had the time and the nerve to go beyond their immediate neighbourhoods. Neither constrained by regular work nor school (at least until 1874 when school became mandatory), they were free to wander the streets—to work at odd jobs, to challenge the law with minor (and probably some major) illegal acts. Working…
Prehistoric Households and Childhood
From the perspective of contemporary societies ‘childhood’ and ‘household’ are not universal, static categories but rather culturally highly variable dimensions of social life which can be influenced by numerous factors. They appear to be complex social processes, entwined with each other, and are characterized by changing actors. The material traces of these processes in the prehistoric archaeological record are rudimentary and offer no immediat…
Children and Migration
This chapter will explore how children experienced a sense of community and family within the context of migration, focusing on case studies from the nineteenth century and the Viking Age. In particular, the chapter will look at two main migratory contexts: transnational and internal migration. There has been extensive research on migration in diverse contexts and time periods by archaeologists, but the experiences of children of migration have l…
The History of the Archaeology of Childhood
The archaeology of childhood challenges the mindset of the student and researcher, both in terms of collected archaeological material, and when they go out into the field to make hypotheses about where the settlements have been in the past, and who the people were who once lived there. In this chapter, the intention is not to present scientific results based on childhood studies over the years. It is to encourage the curiosity of everyone interes…
Archaeology and Ethnicity. Untangling Identities in Western Greece
L’étude des implantations grecques en Grèce de l’Ouest (Sicile et Italie du Sud) s’intéresse depuis longtemps au problème du lien entre les différents groupes ethniques décrits dans les sources textuelles et les données archéologiques. Cet article explore certaines des anomalies présentées par les deux séries de données et suggère que des priorités sociales plutôt qu’ethniques sont peut-être à l’œuvre dans l’expression de la culture matérielle, e…
Ancient Identities: Age, Gender, and Ethnicity in Ancient Greek Burials
This chapter illustrates the ways in which three critical social identities—age, gender, and ethnicity—could be depicted through the archaeological mortuary record of ancient Greece and Greek settlements in Italy and Sicily between the Geometric and Hellenistic periods. It provides a range of case studies which indicate not only the importance of these identities in the formulation of burial systems, but also the fact that their visibility could …
Pithekoussai
Pithekoussai, on the island of Ischia in the Bay of Naples, was founded some time before 750 BCE .
Thapsos
Thapsos (mod. Peninsula di Magnisi) is a low, small tongue of land off the east coast of Sicily, connected to the mainland by a narrow isthmus 2.5 km long and in places only about 100 m wide.
Kroton
Achaians led by Myskellos of Rhype founded Kroton in southern Italy in 733 BCE (Strabo 6.1.12; 6.2.4: synchronization with Syracuse in Sicily) or 710/708 (Eusebius Chronicle ; Dion. Hal. Rom . Ant . 2.59).
Gela
Gela (Sicily) was founded in 688 BCE by Rhodians and Cretans, led respectively by Antiphemos and Entimos (Thuc. 6.4.3).
Theokles of Chalcis
Theocles is credited by Thucydides (6.3) with the foundation of Naxos in Sicily (734 Bce) with Chalcidians from Euboea (see also Pausanias 6.13.8).
Messana
Messana (modern Messina) in the northeastern corner of Sicily was founded as Zankle in ca. 730 BCE by Greeks from Euboea, although Thucydides (6.4.5) also records a prior establishment by pirates from Cumae in Italy.
Greek "Colonisation" in Sicily and the West. Some Problems of Evidence and Interpretation Twenty-Five Years On
This paper provides a brief review of some of the major shifts in archaeological and historical approaches to the study of Greek settlement in the western Mediterranean, especially in Sicily. It observes three major and widespread shifts in scholarly opinion : firstly, that private rather than state enterprise may have provided the initiative for the foundation of Greek sites in Sicily ; secondly, that the inhabitants of the new settlements are l…
Dead Men Tell No Tales: Ethnic Diversity in Sicilian Colonies and the Evidence of the Cemeteries
There have been recent suggestions that an indigenous element in ancient Greek settlements in Sicily can be detected through funerary customs. This paper reviews the evidence for ‘indigenous’ burial methods in Greek cemeteries, concentrating on multiple, contracted and acephalous burials. It argues that such evidence is limited and open to various interpretations and that while it is highly likely that Greek settlements did incorporate an indigen…
Greeks bearing gifts: Religious relationships between Sicily and Greece in the archaic period
Two Marriage Forms in the Comoro Islands: An Investigation
Opening ParagraphComorian marriage must strike anyone with even the most passing knowledge of the Islands as surprising. All men strive for the lavish, expensive and lengthy marriage form known asndola nkuu(great marriage) orharusi ya ada(customary marriage) even though a perfectly respectable simple form,mna daho(little house), is all that moslem customary law requires.Mna dahomarriages cost almost nothing:adamarriages may cost as much as £5000.…
Dead Men Tell No Tales: Ethnic Diversity in Sicilian Colonies and the Evidence of the Cemeteries
There have been recent suggestions that an indigenous element in ancient Greek settlements in Sicily can be detected through funerary customs. This paper reviews the evidence for ‘indigenous’ burial methods in Greek cemeteries, concentrating on multiple, contracted and acephalous burials. It argues that such evidence is limited and open to various interpretations and that while it is highly likely that Greek settlements did incorporate an indigen…
Prehistoric Households and Childhood
From the perspective of contemporary societies ‘childhood’ and ‘household’ are not universal, static categories but rather culturally highly variable dimensions of social life which can be influenced by numerous factors. They appear to be complex social processes, entwined with each other, and are characterized by changing actors. The material traces of these processes in the prehistoric archaeological record are rudimentary and offer no immediat…
Greek "Colonisation" in Sicily and the West. Some Problems of Evidence and Interpretation Twenty-Five Years On
This paper provides a brief review of some of the major shifts in archaeological and historical approaches to the study of Greek settlement in the western Mediterranean, especially in Sicily. It observes three major and widespread shifts in scholarly opinion : firstly, that private rather than state enterprise may have provided the initiative for the foundation of Greek sites in Sicily ; secondly, that the inhabitants of the new settlements are l…
Children and Migration
This chapter will explore how children experienced a sense of community and family within the context of migration, focusing on case studies from the nineteenth century and the Viking Age. In particular, the chapter will look at two main migratory contexts: transnational and internal migration. There has been extensive research on migration in diverse contexts and time periods by archaeologists, but the experiences of children of migration have l…
The History of the Archaeology of Childhood
The archaeology of childhood challenges the mindset of the student and researcher, both in terms of collected archaeological material, and when they go out into the field to make hypotheses about where the settlements have been in the past, and who the people were who once lived there. In this chapter, the intention is not to present scientific results based on childhood studies over the years. It is to encourage the curiosity of everyone interes…
The Developing Forager
Studies of regional and chronological variation in skeletal markers of physical activity in past hunter-gatherer populations typically focus on adults, however, patterns of bone strength develop predominantly during childhood and adolescence. Ethnographic studies suggest that differences in environment and subsistence strategy would have brought about variation in how children grew up to be productive foragers capable of procuring food for themse…
Two Marriage Forms in the Comoro Islands: An Investigation
Opening ParagraphComorian marriage must strike anyone with even the most passing knowledge of the Islands as surprising. All men strive for the lavish, expensive and lengthy marriage form known asndola nkuu(great marriage) orharusi ya ada(customary marriage) even though a perfectly respectable simple form,mna daho(little house), is all that moslem customary law requires.Mna dahomarriages cost almost nothing:adamarriages may cost as much as £5000.…
Morgantina Studies V: The Archaic Cemeteries . By Claire L. Lyons
Greeks bearing gifts: Religious relationships between Sicily and Greece in the archaic period
Dead Men Tell No Tales: Ethnic Diversity in Sicilian Colonies and the Evidence of the Cemeteries
There have been recent suggestions that an indigenous element in ancient Greek settlements in Sicily can be detected through funerary customs. This paper reviews the evidence for ‘indigenous’ burial methods in Greek cemeteries, concentrating on multiple, contracted and acephalous burials. It argues that such evidence is limited and open to various interpretations and that while it is highly likely that Greek settlements did incorporate an indigen…
Greek "Colonisation" in Sicily and the West. Some Problems of Evidence and Interpretation Twenty-Five Years On
This paper provides a brief review of some of the major shifts in archaeological and historical approaches to the study of Greek settlement in the western Mediterranean, especially in Sicily. It observes three major and widespread shifts in scholarly opinion : firstly, that private rather than state enterprise may have provided the initiative for the foundation of Greek sites in Sicily ; secondly, that the inhabitants of the new settlements are l…
Pithekoussai
Pithekoussai, on the island of Ischia in the Bay of Naples, was founded some time before 750 BCE .
Thapsos
Thapsos (mod. Peninsula di Magnisi) is a low, small tongue of land off the east coast of Sicily, connected to the mainland by a narrow isthmus 2.5 km long and in places only about 100 m wide.
Kroton
Achaians led by Myskellos of Rhype founded Kroton in southern Italy in 733 BCE (Strabo 6.1.12; 6.2.4: synchronization with Syracuse in Sicily) or 710/708 (Eusebius Chronicle ; Dion. Hal. Rom . Ant . 2.59).
Gela
Gela (Sicily) was founded in 688 BCE by Rhodians and Cretans, led respectively by Antiphemos and Entimos (Thuc. 6.4.3).
Theokles of Chalcis
Theocles is credited by Thucydides (6.3) with the foundation of Naxos in Sicily (734 Bce) with Chalcidians from Euboea (see also Pausanias 6.13.8).
Messana
Messana (modern Messina) in the northeastern corner of Sicily was founded as Zankle in ca. 730 BCE by Greeks from Euboea, although Thucydides (6.4.5) also records a prior establishment by pirates from Cumae in Italy.
Ancient Identities: Age, Gender, and Ethnicity in Ancient Greek Burials
This chapter illustrates the ways in which three critical social identities—age, gender, and ethnicity—could be depicted through the archaeological mortuary record of ancient Greece and Greek settlements in Italy and Sicily between the Geometric and Hellenistic periods. It provides a range of case studies which indicate not only the importance of these identities in the formulation of burial systems, but also the fact that their visibility could …
Archaeology and Ethnicity. Untangling Identities in Western Greece
L’étude des implantations grecques en Grèce de l’Ouest (Sicile et Italie du Sud) s’intéresse depuis longtemps au problème du lien entre les différents groupes ethniques décrits dans les sources textuelles et les données archéologiques. Cet article explore certaines des anomalies présentées par les deux séries de données et suggère que des priorités sociales plutôt qu’ethniques sont peut-être à l’œuvre dans l’expression de la culture matérielle, e…
Above and Below the Surface
This chapter addresses children’s lives and living conditions during the early modern period in Sweden. A case study on the population at one of Sweden’s most important historical mines, the Sala Silver mine forms the basis for a discussion about children’s work, their diets, and how gender roles and social status may have affected their health. Two sources provide complementing and sometimes contradicting information about how children’s lives w…
Educating Victorian Children
This chapter presents a case study of the archaeology of a mid-nineteenth century school in Cambridge (England), placing the features associated with the school and the material associated with them in the wider context of children’s material culture, education, and the rapidly changing nature of nineteenth century childhood, considering the material culture that children interacted with in its totality, not just child-specific forms. This allows…
Representations of Children in Ancient Greece
Children’s representations appear early in the Greek visual material culture: first they appear in the large funerary vases of the geometric period, while in the archaic period they appear in funerary reliefs and vases. To the representations in vase painting, those in terracotta statuettes can be added in the fifth century, but it is in the fourth century bc that children become a noteworthy subject of representation, appearing both in small- an…
The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Childhood
Real understanding of past societies is not possible without including children, and yet they have been strangely invisible in the archaeological record. In this volume, experts from around the world investigate childhood in the past, showing why it is important to understand childhood, why different cultures construct different ideas of how to rear children, what part children play in the community, and when and why childhood ends. The contribut…
Material Culture and Childhood in Harappan South Asia
The Harappan Civilization came up in the mid-third millennium bce over an area that extended over much of the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent. This chapter will specifically focus on two major cities, Mohenjodaro and Harappa, to discuss material culture and childhood in Harappan South Asia, including the wide range of arguably child-related objects found at these sites which provide a lens through which we can get a glimpse of quotid…
Vecino Archaeology and the Politics of Play in New Mexico, USA
In the discussion that follows, I explore the effects of modernity on Hispano (Vecino) children on the Ranchos de Taos Plaza in northern New Mexico (United States of America) from the late 1800s American invasion of the Southwest up to the present infiltration of the village by tourists and travellers. Data are derived from archaeological excavations and survey at two households in the St Francis of Assisi Parish that have been continuously occup…
Roman Sarcophagi and Children
The chapter opens by defining ‘Roman’ and ‘children’ (in Roman sarcophagus terms) and problems inherent in both. The discussion starts with a brief description and outline of Roman burial practices involving sarcophagus burials, including how the city of Rome may have differed from e.g. northern Italy in terms of children and sarcophagi. The discussion then moves onto the reliefs that decorated sarcophagi and to the key question of how far their …
Roman Household Organization
This chapter surveys current perspectives on children and stages of childhood within Roman households and examines how archaeological evidence for household organization can change these perspectives. It discusses what can be gleaned from analyses of archaeological evidence for household space and household activities, and notably from assessing skeletal remains, material culture, and decoration. It discusses what this evidence can tell us about …
The Developing Forager
Studies of regional and chronological variation in skeletal markers of physical activity in past hunter-gatherer populations typically focus on adults, however, patterns of bone strength develop predominantly during childhood and adolescence. Ethnographic studies suggest that differences in environment and subsistence strategy would have brought about variation in how children grew up to be productive foragers capable of procuring food for themse…
Working-class Childhood in Nineteenth-century New York City
The children in New York City’s nineteenth-century working-class immigrant families were explorers. It was they, more than their parents, who had the time and the nerve to go beyond their immediate neighbourhoods. Neither constrained by regular work nor school (at least until 1874 when school became mandatory), they were free to wander the streets—to work at odd jobs, to challenge the law with minor (and probably some major) illegal acts. Working…
Prehistoric Households and Childhood
From the perspective of contemporary societies ‘childhood’ and ‘household’ are not universal, static categories but rather culturally highly variable dimensions of social life which can be influenced by numerous factors. They appear to be complex social processes, entwined with each other, and are characterized by changing actors. The material traces of these processes in the prehistoric archaeological record are rudimentary and offer no immediat…
Children and Migration
This chapter will explore how children experienced a sense of community and family within the context of migration, focusing on case studies from the nineteenth century and the Viking Age. In particular, the chapter will look at two main migratory contexts: transnational and internal migration. There has been extensive research on migration in diverse contexts and time periods by archaeologists, but the experiences of children of migration have l…
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