Whim Rules the Child
The Archaeology of Childhood in Scandinavian Scotland
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4628394 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Erin Halstad Mcguire (0000-0001-6688-736X, University of Victoria, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | sp1 |
| Pages | 13 |
| Publication date | 2013-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the North Atlantic (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1935-1933 • E-ISSN: 1935-1933 |
| Publisher | Journal of the North Atlantic (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3721/037.002.sp1104 |
| OpenAlex | W2912997918 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 24 |
The Viking Age is typically seen as an adult world, especially in the context of migration, and yet children would have made up a significant portion of the population. In recent years, the children of the Viking Age diasporic settlements in England, Ireland, and Iceland have been the subject of study. This paper examines the evidence from Scandinavian Scotland for children's funerary practices and the material culture of children/childhood. By studying objects such as game boards, graffiti, and potential toys, we can begin to explore the evidence for play and children's agency in the archaeological record
Archaeological evidence · Archaeological record · Archaeology · Art · Ethnology · Genealogy · Geography · Graffiti · Human settlement · Northern ireland · Population · Social science · Sociology · Viking Age · Visual arts · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Demography · Historical and Archaeological Studies · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · History
Engendering children, engendering archaeology
A Norse House on Drimore Machair, South Uist
The Cultural Construction of Childhood in Scandinavia, 3500 BC—1350AD
Warriors and women
Notices of some recently-discovered Inscribed and Sculptured Stones
Sprouting Like Cockle Amongst the Wheat’
Excavations at Underhoull, Unst, Shetland
Excavation of Pictish and Viking-age farmsteads at Buckquoy, Orkney
A Viking Age cemetery at Cnip, Uig, Isle of Lewis
Miniature Quern- and Millstones from Shetland’s Scandinavian Past
What the Vikings did for fun? Sports and pastimes in medieval northern Europe
Archaeology of Childhood
What Was the Viking Age and When did it Happen? A View from Orkney
A child is born. The child's world in an archaeological perspective
Materializing Children
New Excavations at the Brough of Deerness
What caused the Viking Age
Hearth and Home
Microcosms of Migration
Children's Play in the Later Medieval English Countryside
The Archaeology of Play Things
Who's that Girl? The Cultural Construction of Girlhood and the Transition to Womanhood in Viking Age Gotland
Transnational Childhoods
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |