Table of Contents:
  • Setting the table : why children and childhood are important in an understanding of ancient Mesoamerica / Traci Ardren
  • Boys and girls interrupted : mortuary evidence of children from postclassic Cholula, Puebla / Geoffrey G. McCafferty and Sharisse D. McCafferty
  • Children of K'axob : premature death in a formative Maya village / Rebecca Storey and Patricia A. McAnany
  • Identifying childhood among the ancient Maya : evidence toward social reproduction at the dancer household group in northwestern Belize / Rissa M. Trachman and Fred Valdez, Jr.
  • Children not at Chunchucmil : a relational approach to young subjects / Scott R. Hutson
  • Crafting children : materiality, social memory, and the reproduction of terminal classic house societies in the Ulúa Valley, Honduras / Jeanne Lopiparo
  • The marking of age in ancient coastal Oaxaca / Stacie M. King
  • Child martyrs and murderous children : age and agency in sixteenth-century transatlantic religious conflicts / Byron Ellsworth Hamann
  • The role of children in the ritual practices of the great temple of Tenochtitlan and the great temple of Tlatelolco / Juan Alberto Román Berrelleza and Ximena Chávez Balderas
  • The child and the childlike in Olmec art and archaeology / Billie Follensbee
  • Where we all begin : archaeologies of childhood in the Mesoamerican past / Rosemary A. Joyce.