Growing Up in The Ice Age: Were children drivers of human cultural evolution?
5:00pm - 6:00pm /
Thursday 13th January 2022
- Lucy Timbrell
- Admission: Free
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Speaker: Professor April Nowell
Affiliation: University of Victoria, Canada
Date: 13/01/2021
Time: 5-6pm GMT
Abstract: It is estimated that in prehistoric societies children comprised at least forty to sixty-five percent of the population, yet by default, our ancestral landscapes are peopled by adults who hunt, gather, fish, knap tools and make art. But these adults were also parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles who had to make space physically, emotionally, intellectually, and cognitively for the infants, children and adolescents around them. The economic, social, and political roles of Paleolithic children are often understudied because they are assumed to be unknowable or negligible. Drawing on the most recent data from the cognitive sciences and from the ethnographic, fossil, archaeological, and primate records, this talk challenges these assumptions. By rendering the “invisible” children visible, a new understanding will be gained not only of the contributions that children have made to the biological and cultural entities we are today but also of the Paleolithic period as whole.
Please contact liverpoolevoanth@gmail.com for the Zoom link.
Please note - this event will be recorded for public broadcast.
Affiliation: University of Victoria, Canada
Date: 13/01/2021
Time: 5-6pm GMT
Abstract: It is estimated that in prehistoric societies children comprised at least forty to sixty-five percent of the population, yet by default, our ancestral landscapes are peopled by adults who hunt, gather, fish, knap tools and make art. But these adults were also parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles who had to make space physically, emotionally, intellectually, and cognitively for the infants, children and adolescents around them. The economic, social, and political roles of Paleolithic children are often understudied because they are assumed to be unknowable or negligible. Drawing on the most recent data from the cognitive sciences and from the ethnographic, fossil, archaeological, and primate records, this talk challenges these assumptions. By rendering the “invisible” children visible, a new understanding will be gained not only of the contributions that children have made to the biological and cultural entities we are today but also of the Paleolithic period as whole.
Please contact liverpoolevoanth@gmail.com for the Zoom link.
Please note - this event will be recorded for public broadcast.