Childhood, Motherhood, and the Body in Iron Age Europe: Interview with Professor Katharina Rebay-Salisbury
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The History of Violence Against Children
In Bronze and Iron Age sanitaries, the regular bioreal right would only be applied to children from like one or two years of age. We don't really know what happened to the majority of babies that must have died during that period. For instance, in the salt mines of Halshtat, it was clear that children were laborers. But then we also see other touching grave contexts where children are buried in relation to each other in sort of very loving ways presented in the door with grave goods. So I think as today, there's a whole wide variety of emotional responses to children and to death in childhood.
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