Playing with Flint : Tracing a Child’s Imitation of Adult Work in a Lithic Assemblage

• This paper examines the potential for identifying play and children’s imitation in the archaeological record and reviews cultural constructions of play and cross-cultural behaviour. A case study, using a lithic assemblage from a discrete knapping area for Scandinavian Neolithic axe production in Southern Sweden which identifies a child´s activity area, is discussed. The theoretical and methodological assumptions behind play, imitation and its identification as well as its social implications are also examined.

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SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Utbildningsvetenskap (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Educational Sciences (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

Lithic technology

Child archaeology

Play

Sweden

Arkeologi

Archaeology

Pedagogics

Pedagogik

Genusvetenskap

Gender Studies

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