We are delighted to announce that next year @sscipchildhood.bsky.social conference takes us to Oulu, Finland (June 10th-12th) where we will be hosted by Sanna Lipkin and colleagues

We announced the winner of this year's student presentation prize: Javier Salcines-Montana! Congratulations Javier on your fascinating talk about emotion and infant burial in the Bronze Age and Iron Age Iberia @sscipchildhood.bsky.social

To close day two of the conference @sscipchildhood.bsky.social we thanked the organisers of this year's conference Felix, Mathilde, Izzy and Halle

This year @sscipchildhood.bsky.social we've had a couple of amazing workshops; one on incremental isotope analyais with Julia Beaumont (aka Bradford Tooth Fairy) and Corinne Feuillatre

And finally, Marta Fernández-Viejo explored infant burial practices, health and disease in Valladolid, Spain @sscipchildhood.bsky.social

Alba Navarro-Pérez looked at evidence for dental microwear in juvenile remains from Terrinches, Spain (sorry, I didn't get a picture of the speaker!)

Finally before a break, Marta García-Barreirro presented a possible case of hip dysplasia @sscipchildhood.bsky.social (sorry, I didn't get a picture of the speaker!)

@sscipchildhood.bsky.social Our very own Secretary, Creighton Avery, explored puberty in ancient Rome

Joining us online @sscipchildhood.bsky.social and asking us to 'Please think of the children' was Selene Rodríguez-Caraballo (sorry for the pic!)

@sscipchildhood.bsky.social Our very own journal editor Prof. Eileen Murphy spoke about the evidence of violent trauma on the remains of juveniles from medieval Ireland

The relationship between children and animals in the burial record was explored by Povilas Blazevicius @sscipchildhood.bsky.social

Sonia Lopez-Chamizo and Elías Brossoise offered an interesting and powerful perspective on infant burial in Málaga @sscipchildhood.bsky.social

Day Two @sscipchildhood.bsky.social started with a thoughtful paper by Javier Salcines-Montana presenting on infant death and emotion in prehistoric Iberia

Today's fascinating and sobering keynote by @kalexand.bsky.social @sscipchildhood.bsky.social

Our next speaker before tea @sscipchildhood.bsky.social is Sascha Bjerg Bøgebjerg talking about the Kidlink forum

Now to something more recent @sscipchildhood.bsky.social .....Sanna Lipkin looks at 20th century refugees in Finland

Joined now virtually @sscipchildhood.bsky.social by Daria Loznjak Dizdar speaking about bronze age and iron age children in river confluence environments

Now exploring life in the Carpathian basin during two climate change events, Csilla Libor @sscipchildhood.bsky.social

Now back from a tasty lunch @sscipchildhood.bsky.social for our first speaker of the afternoon - Corinne Feuillatre speaks about her isotope research on populations in Sudan

Wow! Our next @sscipchildhood.bsky.social speaker Majken Astrup tells us about Skalk Junior - a magazine about archaeology aimed at children here in Denmark

Starting with our first session speaker, Izzy Wisher @sscipchildhood.bsky.social

This year's @sscipchildhood.bsky.social conference organiser Prof. Felix Reide welcoming us to this year's conference on the topic of children and climate change

Starting with our first keynote from Dr Sheina Lew-Levy @sscipchildhood.bsky.social

The annual @sscipchildhood.bsky.social conference is under way...

Super excited to be in Aarhus for the @sscipchildhood.bsky.social conference this week

Had an amazing time in India with @nannonstevens.bsky.social visiting colleagues at the Anthropological Survey of India to formalise our collaboration and begin our research @uclarchaeology.bsky.social

And we're off...India here we come! Looking forward to meeting colleagues to discuss research and collaboration @uclarchaeology.bsky.social @nannonstevens.bsky.social

DEADLINE EXTENSION! The deadline for submitting an abstract for the upcoming @sscipchildhood.bsky.social conference has been extended to Thursday the 10th of April, 12 pm (GMT+2) Note that online participation will also be an option See more here: conferences.au.dk/sscip-2025/c...

Join @sscipchildhood.bsky.social for our Annual Lecture by @maryosteokids2.bsky.social on 20th March... it's going to be a fascinating talk Link to register below

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