@article {9823,
	title = {Neither Seen Nor Heard: Looking for Children in Northwest Coast Archaeology},
	journal = {Canadian Journal of Archaeology},
	volume = {34},
	year = {2010},
	pages = {64-88},
	abstract = {<p>Children were a significant part of all past populations, yet they are often overlooked in archaeological inquiry. The reasons for this absence involve both conceptual and practical obstacles: the transposition of present-day, Euro-American understandings of the child as dependent and incapable, and the difficulty of identifying clear archaeological signatures associated with children\&mdash;particularly in prehistoric contexts. In this paper, I focus on the archaeology of the Northwest Coast region, finding only limited ethnographic accounts of children, and virtually no mention of them in the archaeological literature. After discussing the factors that contribute to the invisibility of children in archaeological interpretation in general, I argue that there is no justification for assuming children in the ancient Northwest Coast were non-productive. I present archaeological and ethnoarchaeological research\&mdash;from the Northwest Coast and other regions\&mdash;that may point the way for future analyses of child life in the ancient Northwest Coast. In particular, foraging models and faunal analysis can be used to reflect the distinctive subsistence strategies of children.</p>},
	author = {April Ruttle}
}
