Julie Wileman. Hide and Seek: The Archaeology of Childhood.
Stroud: Tempus, 2005. x + 192 pp. $45.00 (paper), ISBN
978-0-7524-3462-9. Reviewed by Jane Eva Baxter (DePaul
University) Published on H-Childhood (February, 2008) Seeking
and Finding Children in the Past The archaeology of childhood
has grown over the past decade and a half as a vibrant field of
specialized interest within archaeology as a whole. Theoretical
developments and methodological innovations are integral
features of this continually evolving body of literature, and
conversations about childhood are taking place among an ever
diversifying pool of scholars in the discipline. Julie Wileman
enters into these conversations seeking to redress the lack of
children in archaeological interpretations, and to debunk the
all too common notion that children's imprints on the
archaeological record are either minor, hard to interpret, or
too difficult to disentangle from those of adults. The stated
goal of Hide and Seek is "to examine the evidence for ch