Material culture shock: confronting expectations in the material culture of children / Joanna Sofaer Derevenski -- The world of children / Grete Lillehammer -- Footprints in the clay: Upper Palaeolithic children in ritual and secular contexts / Blythe Roveland -- The social status and artistic presentation of 'adolescence' in fifth century Athens / Lesley Beaumont -- Apprentice flintknapping: relating material culture and social practice in the Upper Palaeolithic / Linda Grimm -- Children, material culture and weaving: historical change and developmental change / Patricia Greenfield -- Neanderthal cognitive life history and its implications for material culture / Jennie Hawcroft, Robin Dennell -- Not merely child's play: creating a historical archaeology of children and childhood / Laurie Wilkie -- The construction of the individual among north European fisher-gatherer-hunters in the Early and Mid-Holocene / Liliana Janik -- Children, gender and the material culture of domestic abandonment in the late twentieth century / Victor Buchli, Gavin Lucas -- The child as a node of past, present and future / Koji Mizoguchi -- Child burials in ancient Athens / Sanne Houby-Nielsen -- Children, grave goods and social status in early Anglo-Saxon England / Sally Crawford -- The archaeology and history of infanticide, and its occurrence in earlier British populations / Simon Mays -- Interpretation of the growth of past populations / Louise Humphrey --Minor concerns: a demographic perspective on children in past societies / Andrew Chamberlain.