Second Annual Conference
28^th to 30^th September 2008
Museum of Archaeology
Stavanger, Norway

CHILDHOOD IN THE PAST
RECENT RESEARCH

Keynote Speaker:
Karin Sham Poo, Unicef

 Every human being ever born has experienced childhood, even if only fleetingly, and the number of children to have existed in the past far outnumbers that of adults. The experience of childhood encompasses some of the most universal aspects of human existence, and some of the most unique. However, although crucial to the understanding of any society, the evidence for children’s lives in the past is often insubstantial, fragmentary, mediated and overlooked. As such, it demands special attention if knowledge and understanding of the nature and experience of childhood in pasts is to be advanced.