Childhood in the Roman Near East: the archaeology of children at Dura-Europos

社会是通过儿童和他们的文化熏陶而再生的。然而，童年往往依赖于肖像学和去语境的发现，从文学角度来解释可能是有问题的。叙利亚的杜拉-欧罗波斯遗址被广泛挖掘，为研究童年考古提供了一个独特的机会。对20世纪20年代的S和30年代的S的大规模发掘，产生了丰富的遗址材料，其中包括与儿童有关的独特的背景发现。这项研究将考察杜拉的童年物质文化，包括罗马帝国已知的唯一一组出土的骨头玩偶，以及陶俑、儿童绘画和儿童涂鸦。挖掘墓地中儿童埋葬的葬礼证据也将包括在内，从而能够研究儿童是如何生活的，以及在罗马近东是如何被纪念的。

Society is reproduced through children and their enculturation. However, childhood can be problematic to interpretarchaeologically, often relying upon iconography and decontextualised finds. The extensively excavated site ofDura-Europos in Syria provides a unique opportunity to examine the archaeology of childhood. The large-scale,published excavations of the 1920's and 30's, yielded a rich array of settlement material, including, uniquely,contextualized finds relating to children. This study will examine the material culture of childhood at Dura, includingthe only excavated group of bone dolls known in the Roman empire, as well as terracotta toys, paintedrepresentations of children, and graffiti produced by children. Funerary evidence from the burials of children in theexcavated necropolis will also be included, enabling a study of how children lived, and were commemorated in theRoman Near East.