Care of infants in the past: Bridging evolutionary anthropological and bioarchaeological approaches
| dc.contributor.author | Halcrow, Siân | |
| dc.contributor.author | Warren, Ruth | |
| dc.contributor.author | Kushnick, Geoff | |
| dc.contributor.author | Nowell, April | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-07-05T17:40:38Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-07-05T17:40:38Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020 | |
| dc.description | We thank the organisers of the Wenner Gren Foundation funded Symposium on Children and Innovation for the opportunity to contribute a version of the paper we presented. We received constructive feedback by Melanie Miller on a draft of this paper. Robbie McPhee assisted with some of the graphics. | |
| dc.description.abstract | The importance of care of infants and children in palaeoanthropological and human behavioural ecological research on the evolution of our species is evident in the diversity of research on human development, alloparental care, and learning and social interaction. There has been a recent surge of interest in modelling the social implications of care provision for people with serious disabilities in bioarchaeology. However, there is a lack of acknowledgement of infant and child care in bioarchaeology, despite the significant labour and resources that are required, and the implications this has for health outcomes within societies. Drawing on the recent proliferation of studies on infancy and childhood in evolutionary anthropology and bioarchaeology, this paper presents ways the subdisciplines may draw on research developments from each field to advance a more holistic understanding of the evolutionary, social and health significance of infant and children care in the past. | |
| dc.description.reviewstatus | Reviewed | |
| dc.description.scholarlevel | Faculty | |
| dc.description.sponsorship | No specific funding was linked to the research for this paper. We acknowledge the Wenner Gren Foundation for the funding of the symposium that stimulated and contributed to the development of this paper. | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Halcrow, S., Warren, R., Kushnick, G., & Nowell, A. (2020). Care of infants in the past: Bridging evolutionary anthropological and bioarchaeological approaches. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2. https://doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2020.46 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2020.46 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1828/16717 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Evolutionary Human Sciences | |
| dc.rights | Attribution 4.0 International | en |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
| dc.subject | infant care | |
| dc.subject | maternal and infant health | |
| dc.subject | bioarchaeology of care | |
| dc.subject | human evolution | |
| dc.subject | palaeoanthropology | |
| dc.subject.department | Department of Anthropology | |
| dc.title | Care of infants in the past: Bridging evolutionary anthropological and bioarchaeological approaches | |
| dc.type | Article |