Some notes on the archaeology of children: exploration of methodological approaches to its definition

Abstract

Childhood is a topic that was poorly worked in Latin-American archaeology. Children like generators or as active participants and creators of archaeological record are an interest that
has been growing throughout the last twenty years.
The aim of this work is to analyze the presence of children in archaeological literature and the possibility to develop an approach towards them across the study of the archaeological record. To this end, the analysis of three cases will be used. Each of them seeks, across different lines, to contribute to the development of methodological pathways that allow the extention of the vision of the archaeological record and to call attention on children as producers and modifiers of the latter. Finally, we try to approach the problematics from a perspective that considers children like active agents, promoters of change and continuity of cultural practices.