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The value of mothers to society: responses to motherhood and child rearing practices in prehistoric Europe
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| Coordinator |
OESTERREICHISCHE AKADEMIE DER WISSENSCHAFTEN
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| Coordinator Country | Austria [AT] |
| Project website | https://www.orea.oeaw.ac.at/forschung/prehistoric-identities/the-value-of-mothers-to-society/ |
| Total cost | 1˙499˙680 € |
| EC max contribution | 1˙499˙680 € (100%) |
| Programme |
1. H2020-EU.1.1. (EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)) |
| Code Call | ERC-2015-STG |
| Funding Scheme | ERC-STG |
| Starting year | 2016 |
| Duration (year-month-day) | from 2016-07-01 to 2021-06-30 |
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| 1 | OESTERREICHISCHE AKADEMIE DER WISSENSCHAFTEN | AT (WIEN) | coordinator | 1˙499˙680.00 |
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Project objective
Analysing the link between reproduction and women’s social status, this project explores social responses to pregnancy, birth and childrearing from the late Neolithic to the late Iron Age (c.3000-15 BC) through case studies in central Europe. Motherhood and childrearing, often seen as natural, mundane and inevitable parts of women’s lives, are also cultural and historically contingent practices that build the foundations of societies. Exploring the value of mothers to society will aid in understanding important long-term developments such as social stratification, increasing population density and the entrenching of gender roles during the three millennia under investigation.
Bringing together the latest developments in archaeological science, including palaeo-pathology, ancient DNA and isotope analyses, with innovative interpretative approaches, this project will explore if all women were expected to become mothers, highlight alternative lifeways, evaluate risks and consequences of becoming a mother and analyse the social value of reproductive success.
It is the first study that aims to systematically predict the probability of whether or not a woman has given birth using palaeo-pathological markers combined with individual age information and population-specific demographic data. It will contextualize the findings with an in-depth status analysis of women’s graves. Graves of pregnant women, double burials of women and children as well as infant burials will provide further data. The study extends to childrearing (care, feeding, but also abuse, neglect and infanticide) and explores how children were treated after death for insights into their significance.
Current political discourses about mothers in society and workforce frequently refer to ‘natural’ and ‘ancient’ childrearing practices. This project will contribute significantly to our understanding of motherhood and counter naive narratives of childrearing in prehistory with science-based information.
Publications
| year | authors and title | journal | last update |
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| 2017 |
Rebay-Salisbury, K. Breast is best – and are there alternatives? Feeding babies and young children in prehistoric Europe published pages: 13-29, ISSN: 0373-5656, DOI: |
Mitteilungen der Anthropologischen Gesellschaft 147 | 2019-07-08 |
| 2017 |
Rebay-Salisbury, K. Bodies, identities and social relations in Bronze and Iron Age Central Europe.Kumulative Habilitationsschrift zur Erlangung der Venia Docendi im Fach Urgeschichte und Historische Archäologie published pages: , ISSN: , DOI: |
2019-07-08 | |
| 2017 |
Fritzl, M. Die mehrfach belegten Gräber des Gräberfeldes von Inzersdorf ob der Traisen, NÖ. Eine Studie zu sozialen, religiösen und rituellen Implikationen von mehrfach belegten Gräbern der Urnenfelderkultur.Master Thesis, Historisch-Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität Wien published pages: , ISSN: , DOI: |
2019-07-08 | |
| 2018 |
Rebay-Salisbury, Katharina Personal relationships between co-buried individuals in the central European Early Bronze Age published pages: 35-48, ISSN: , DOI: |
Across the Generations: The Old and the Young in Past Societies, Childhood in the Past Monograph Series 8 | 2019-04-10 |
| 2018 |
Katharina Rebay-Salisbury, Doris Pany-Kucera, Michaela Spannagl-Steiner, Fabian Kanz, Patrik Galeta, Maria Teschler-Nicola, Roderick B. Salisbury Motherhood at Early Bronze Age Unterhautzenthal, Lower Austria published pages: 71-134, ISSN: 0003-8008, DOI: 10.1553/archaeologia102s71 |
Archaeologia Austriaca 1 jo | 2019-04-10 |
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