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Interesting bit from Johns Hopkins about the absence of roman children at etruscan cemetaries...

 

When Marie Nicole Coscolluela ’13 first heard that very young children were absent from Etruscan cemeteries, she was mystified. What does that tell us about how Etruscans viewed infants and young children? Did they consider them less human than adults? If so, what was it like to be a child ca. 10th–3rd centuries B.C.?

 

...more at Johns Hopkins

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