Tag: religion

• Ancient Newborn Necropolis in France | Baby News

  

  This article will discuss stillbirth and neonatal death and feature images of human remains. From February to May of 2024, the National Institute of Preventative Archaeology in France (Inrap) carried out an excavation at the Place du Maréchal Leclerc in Auxerre, France ahead of landscaping. Prior to becoming the city of Auxerre in the 4th…

  Aradia Wyndham

  July 3, 2024

  Babies, Birth, news, Video

  after life, burial, France, Gaul, grief, infant mortality, necropolis, newborn, offerings, perinatal, religion, Roman empire, stillbirth, swaddle

• 10,000 Year Old Baby Carrier | Baby History Shorts

  

  One of the complications of studying infant care in history, let alone prehistory (before writing), is that organic materials do not survive, that includes the clothing and carriers, as well as the bodies of infants themselves. The lack of remains has many causes: fewer births in preagricultural societies, infants grow into adults, and the remains…

  Aradia Wyndham

  October 27, 2022

  Babies, Evolution of Babywearing, Video

  archaeology, ascribed status, baby carrier, baby girl, babywearing, cemeteries, female, funeral, grave goods, history, medieval-history, neonatal mortality, personhood, religion, shells, talon

• The Boke of Chyldren | Tudor Pediatrics

  

  Imagine a world where there are no books about keeping your baby healthy in your language, even in your country: that was the case in England until Thomas Phaer published “The Boke of Chyldren” in 1544.

  Aradia Wyndham

  May 10, 2019

  Babies, Blog, Video

  16th century, art history, bedwetting, book history, breastfeeding, colic, cradle cap, domestic manual, early modern, England, epilepsy, history, humoral, infant care, infant sleep, literacy, magic, medicine, medieval, metaphysical, nightmares, religion, teething, The Boke of Chyldren, Thomas Phaer, Tudor