Day 1 – Wednesday, 4 June, 2025 

 

11.00 –   Registration

 

14.00–14.30 Opening speech to the ‘Child Space’ conference’

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Session 1 — Rise of Children

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14.30–15.00 Rebecca Gowland: Small Beginnings: Theoretical and Methodological Advances in the Bioarchaeological Analysis of Infants in the Past

 

15.00–15.30  Katharina Rebay-Salisbury: The Archaeology of Childhood: past, present and future

 

15.30–16.00 Coffee break

 

16.00–16.30 Eileen Murphy: Emotional Responses to Child Loss in Medieval Ireland: Evidence from Multi-Proxy Approaches

 

16.30–17.00 Barbara Hausmair: Death at the beginning of life: Historical responses to pre- and perinatal death and what we can learn from them for today 

 

17.00–17.30 Alexandra Anders: Reflections: Studies on Prehistoric Childhood

 

17.30–18.00 Orsolya Mateovics-László: Biological signals of „set-backs” in past societies - detection of biosocial crisis by skeletal signs of early life stress in Medieval rural populations from Hungary

 

18.00 Welcome Reception &  Exhibition Opening 

 

 

Day 2  – Thursday, 5 June, 2025 

 

9.00– Registration

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Session 2 — Children in Society

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9.30–9.50 Claudio Cavazzuti: Infant burials in Bronze Age Italy and their significance for the reconstruction of rituals, social stratification and demographic cycles

 

9.50–10.10 Michaela Kosová et al.: Born Privileged? Children from the Early Bronze Age Cemeteries in Kolín and Mikulovice (Bohemia)

 

10.10–10.30 Michal Ernée et al.: Children of the Early Bronze Age Community in Mikulovice, East Bohemia

 

10.30–10.50 Eszter Melis et al.: Children on the edge: the youngest members in the Early and Middle Bronze Age communities of Western Hungary

 

10.50–11.20 Coffee break 

 

11.20–11.40 Zsófia Rácz: Children of the Avars: Insights into social organization from fully sampled 6th-9th century cemeteries in the Tisza region

 

11.40–12.00  Doris Pany-Kucera: Relations and demography of children in Austrian Avar period sites: new research avenues

 

12.00–12.20 Tamás Szeniczey: A paleodemographic approach to childhood survivorship in the Avar Period: Insights from the subadult burials of Kölked-Feketekapu

 

12.20–12.40  Balázs Gyuris et al.: Unveiling childhood through bioarchaeology in the Avar-Period Carpathian Basin: kinship, mobility, and social insights 

 

12.40–13.00 István Koncz: Experiencing childhood in 6th century CE - the good, the bad and the interesting

 

13.00–13.30 Discussion after the session

 

13.30–14.30 Fingerfood lunch​

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Session 3 — Feeding with love

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14.30–14.50 Daria Ložnjak Dizdar: Caring for children in protohistory in the Southern Carpathian Basin

 

14.50–15.10 Mario Novak: Growing up in the provinces: Reconstruction of child health and diet on the outskirts of the Roman Empire

 

15.10–15.30  Zrinka Premužić et al.: Childhood on the beach: Subadult burials from the cemetery of the Dominican monastery in Bol, Croatia

 

15.30–15.50 Željka Bedić: Reconstructing the subadult dietary habits and health in the Late Medieval and Early Modern continental Croatia – State of research and future plans

 

15.50–16.20 Coffee break

 

16.20–16.40 Enikő Somogyvári-Lajtár et al.: Being a child in the Neolithic — Stable isotope dietary reconstructions from two Neolithic sites in Northeastern Hungary 

 

16.40–17.00 Nataša Miladinović-Radmilović, Dragana Vulović: The appearance of infantile and child scurvy in the Bishopric of Syrmia: the 17th-18th century Necropolis at the Site of Palanka in Sremska Mitrovica

 

17.00–17.20 Paul Klostermann et al: Bioarchaeological approaches to adolescence in early medieval Central Europe

 

17.20–17.40 Discussion after the session

 

17.20–17.40 Poster presentations

 

19.30 Conference Dinner

 

Day 3 – Friday, 6 June, 2025

 

9.00– Registration

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Session 4 — Child in Space and Time

 

 

9.30–9.50 Ana Mercedes Herrero-Corral: Children in Copper Age Iberia: Gender, Kinship, and Social Identity in Funerary Practices

 

9.50–10.10 Klaudia Daňová: Different ways of children's burial in the Nitra culture (Early Bronze Age) 

 

10.10–10.30 Kristóf Fülöp, László Gucsi: Children Behind the Objects: Interdisciplinary Examination of Bronze Age Ceramic Objects

 

10.30–10.50 Ciprian Crețu: (Bio)archaeology of Children at the Edge of the Roman Empire.A View from Late Antique Scythia (Southeastern Romania)

 

10.50–11.20 Coffee break

 

11.20–11.40 Sofija Stefanović: Being a Child in European Prehistory

 

11.40–12.00 Alessia Nava: Investigating childhood and the mother-infant nexus in past human populations through dental mineralized tissues

 

12.00–12.20 Mateusz Jaeger et al.: Being a Child in the Early Bronze Age Community at Nižná Myšľa: Pilot Results

 

12.20–12.40 Ildikó Pap, Anita Csukovits and Ildikó Szikossy: Do “Sleeping” Children Talk? – Mummies of Vác, Hungary

 

12.40–13.00 Overall discussion, led by session keynote speakers (one of each session)

 

13.00 Organisers: Little Souls — Deep Grief — Closing thoughts

 

End of Conference