The Siberian Paleolithic site of Mal'ta: a unique source for the study of childhood archaeology.

ABSTRACT: As a gendered perspective has emerged in wider society over the past 50 or so years, a greater interest in gender- and age-related research in science has similarly occurred, including for the study of the past (archaeology) and the present (ethnology). Here, I focus on the Mal'ta collection - a well-known Ice Age site located in Siberia. In particular, I focus on several mammoth ivory anthropomorphic sculptures which appear to reflect stages of human childhood, including infancy and the teenage years. These sculptures feature realistic elements, including proportions of each phase of childhood consistent with anthropometric data, details of clothing and accessories, and special benchmarks of puberty. Based on these figurines, I propose a developmental framework of the Paleolithic child fr

SUBMITTER: Lbova L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10427291 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature