How do children construct, negotiate and organize space? The study of social space in any human group is fraught with limitations, and to these we must add the further limits involved in the study of childhood. Here specialists from archaeology, history, literature, architecture, didactics, museology and anthropology build a body of theoretical and methodological approaches about how space is articulated and organised around children and how this disposition affects the creation and maintenance of social identities. Children are considered as the main actors in historic dynamics of social change, from prehistory to the present day. Notions on space, childhood and the construction of both the individual and the group identity of children are considered as a prelude to papers that focus on analysing and identifying the spaces which contribute to the construction of children’s identity during their lives: the places they live, learn, socialize and play. A final section deals with these same aspects, but focuses on funerary contexts, in which children may lose their capacity to influence events, as it is adults who establish burial strategies and practices. In each case authors ask questions such as: how do adults construct spaces for children? How do children manage their own spaces? How do people (adults and children) build (invisible and/or physical) boundaries and spaces?

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Part I: Children, Spaces and Identity
  • Chapter 1: Children, Childhood and Space: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Identity
  • Chapter 2: Steps to Children’s Living Spaces
• Part II: Playing, Living and Learning
  • Chapter 3: Complexity, Cooperation and Childhood: An Evolutionary Perspective
  • Chapter 4: Children as Potters: Apprenticeship Patterns from Bell Beaker Pottery of Copper Age Inner Iberia (Spain) (c. 2500–2000 cal BC)
  • Chapter 5: Social Relations between Adulthood and Childhood in the Early Bronze Age Site of Peñalosa (Baños de la Encina, Jaen, Spain)
  • Chapter 6: Gender and Childhood in the II Iron Age: The Pottery Centre of Las Cogotas (Ávila, Spain)
  • Chapter 7: Playing with Mud? An Ethnoarchaeological Approach to Children’s Learning in Kusasi Ceramic Production
  • Chapter 8: Infantile Individuals: The Great Forgotten of Ancient Mining and Metallurgical Production
  • Chapter 9: Learning to Be Adults: Games and Childhood on the Outskirts of the Big City (San Isidro, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
  • Chapter 10: Disabled Children and Domestic Living Spaces in Britain, 1800–1900
  • Chapter 11: La evolución de los espacios de aprendizaje de la infancia a través de los modelos pedagógicos
  • Chapter 12: Montessori y el ambiente preparado: un espacio de aprendizaje para los niños
  • Chapter 13: Didactics of Childhood: The Case Study of Prehistory
  • Chapter 14: Once upon a time… Childhood and Archaeology from the Perspective of Spanish Museums
  • Chapter 15: Home to Mother: The Long Journey to not Lose one’s own Identity
• Part III: Space, Body and Mind: Chiidren in Funerary Contexts
  • Chapter 16: Use of Molecular Genetic Procedures for Sex Determination in ‘Guanches’ Children’s Remains
  • Chapter 17: Salud y crecimiento en la Edad del Cobre. Un estudio preliminar de los individuos subadultos de Camino del Molino (Caravaca de la Cruz, Murcia, España). Un sepulcro colectivo del III milenio cal. BC
  • Chapter 18: Infant Burials during the Copper and Bronze Ages in the Iberian Jarama River Valley: A Preliminary Study about Childhood in the Funerary Context during III–II millennium BC
  • Chapter 19: Premature Death in the Vaccean Aristocracy at Pintia (Padilla de Duero/Peñafiel, Valladolid). Comparative Study of the Funerary Rituals of Two Little ‘Princesses’
  • Chapter 20: Dying Young in Archaic Gela (Sicily): From the Analysis of the Cemeteries to the Reconstruction of Early Colonial Identity
  • Chapter 21: Maternidad e inhumaciones perinatales en el vicus romanorrepublicano de el Camp de les Lloses (Tona, Barcelona): lecturas y significados
  • Chapter 22: Children and Funerary Space. Ritual Behaviours in the Greek Colonies of Magna Graecia and Sicily
  • Chapter 23: Children and Their Burial Practices in the Early Medieval Cemeteries of Castel Trosino and Nocera Umbra (Italy)
  • Chapter 24: La cultura lúdica en los rituales funerarios infantiles: los juegos de velorio
  • Chapter 25: Compartiendo la experiencia de la muerte. El niño muerto y el niño frente a la muerte