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Yes! It is the talented illustrator Anna C.S. Rasmussen who has made it.
Sounds interesting! Send me an e-mail, and I’ll see if I have any notes on bears 🐻‍❄️

I am very happy to share that my first (but hopefully not last) SKALK Junior article is out. The article is the work of me and @felixthehauskat.bsky.social concerning play objects in Greenland during the Little Ice Age 👏🏻 The article is based on part of my PhD work: lnkd.in/ddu5dejs

Just because the last session has wrapped, it doesn’t mean that #SSCIP2025 is over. We still have a workshop on isotopes led by Julia Beaumont and Corinne Feuillatre

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Final session of the #SSCIP2025 is happening now 👍🏻

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We’re back for session 5 at the #SSCIP2025. This time the topic is life, and Selene Rodríguez Caraballo is speaking live from the Canary Islands ☀️
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The second keynote of the #SSCIP2025 is live. @kalexand.bsky.social is going to talk about the history of childhood and polycrisis. Very excited 👏🏻
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Ready for day 2 of #SSCIP2025. We kick it of with a session about death with four interesting presentations 👏🏻

After a good day of sessions it is now time for play with Videnskabsklubben. Dissecting poop, extracting DNA from bananas, making time lines, and much more here at #SSCIP2025
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After a short break, we are now back for the final session for today at #SSCIP2025. Interesting talks about children’s agency by Sanna Lipkin and Sascha Bjerg Bøgebjerg
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Session 2 on climate and children at the #SSCIP2025 is well on its way with presentations by Corinne Feuillatre, Csilla Libor and Daria Loznjak Dizdar
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@felixthehauskat.bsky.social is kicking of session 1 of the #SSCIP2025 conference with an introduction on children and climate change. Afterwards we will hear from @izzywisher.bsky.social and Majken Astrup from SKALK Junior. It can only be great 👏🏻

First keynote speaker of the #SSCIP2025, @sheinalew.bsky.social talking about children’s agency in cultural adaptation
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We are ready for the first day of #SSCIP2025 here at @aiasdk.bsky.social in Aarhus, Danmark

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I hope you are all as excited about #SSCIP2025 as we are!? Make sure to share your conference snaps, including any conference preparations using the hashtag #SSCIP2025 and tagging us - see you in Aarhus 👀

🌟PROGRAMME🌟

Programme and abstract book for the upcoming @sscipchildhood.bsky.social conference are now to be found on the website: conferences.au.dk/sscip-2025/p...

Check it out! And if you haven't already done so, do register for this amazing conference! Deadline Friday 13th.

🌟 REGISTRATION 🌟

Remember to register for the SSCIP 2025 conference, if you haven't already done so: events.au.dk/sscip2025

Deadline:
- Presenters: May 23rd
- Non-presenters: June 13th

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DEADLINE EXTENSION!

The deadline for submitting an abstract for the upcoming @sscipchildhood.bsky.social conference has been extended to Thursday the 10th of April, 12 pm (GMT+2)

Note that online participation will also be an option

See more here: conferences.au.dk/sscip-2025/c...

So excited to have received my latest order from @pottedhistory.bsky.social today! I love my new miniature pot, baby feeding vessel and boat model 😍

Remember the deadline on April 4th for sending in your abstract to this year's @sscipchildhood.bsky.social conference, "Children and Climate Change"!!

Conference dates: 25-27 June
Place: Aarhus, Denmark
Keynotes: @sheinalew.bsky.social and @kalexand.bsky.social

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A brown background with the cover of the journal with 'Hunter Gatherer Research' title in orange and white with the title: 'Special issue on the secret lives of forager children which examines the implications of intangible culture for an archaeology of childhood'.

Part 2 of the special issue on the secret lives of forager children is here, examining the implications of intangible culture for an archaeology of childhood, articles by @izzywisher.bsky.social @felixthehauskat.bsky.social @mathildevm.bsky.social @rwmp.bsky.social 🔗bit.ly/HGR11-1 @anthropology.net

Nya teorin om gamla Grönland: leksaker avgjorde Att Grönland är omstritt är inget nytt. Redan för 1 000 år sedan försökte invandrande vikingar samsas med inuiter från Nordamerika.<br/>Men på 1400-talet fick skandinavernas ättlingar nog och försvann...

A few weeks ago I was interviewed by Henrik Samuelsson from Swedish TT about my article about children, toys and innovation in Greenland during the Little Ice Age. The result of this can be found here: www.gp.se/nyheter/varl...

Childhood history conference in Aarhus (DK)--theme "Children and Climate Change" (other topics welcome too).

📆Conference dates: 25-27 June
📆Deadline for abstracts: 4 April
👩‍🎓 Keynotes: @kalexand.bsky.social & @sheinalew.bsky.social

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Kontroversiel teori: Kostede for lidt legetøj nordboernes liv i Grønland? I godt 400 år levede inuitterne og nordboerne samtidigt i Grønland, inden nordboerne pludselig forsvandt. Nyt studie kommer med opsigtsvækkende teori om hvorfor.

Now @videnskab.dk has also written an article about the paper by me and @felixthehauskat.bsky.social discussing children, toys and adaptation in Greenland. Even with insightful comments from Bjarne Grønnow.
Read it here: videnskab.dk/kultur-samfu...

Slight update - the conference will take place from June 25-27 instead! Hope to see you all on Aarhus this summer for some white nights and awesome papers!

This research was made possible by @aarhusuni.bsky.social with funding my PhD-project, and by Ulrik Høj Johnsen at Moesgaard Museum by allowing me access to the ethnographic collections.

Lastly, we argue that how important play is for innovation, pointing out how the initial emergence of play objects correlates with periods of innovation.

We have identified different learning processes and aims as well as changing roles within a community of practice of Wodaabe bowyers.

By analysing the bow-and-arrow play set we have been able to reconstruct a setting of situated learning through developing peripheral participation across different-age learners and teachers.

Our study shows how analysing toys using the method of cognigrammetry can tell us about the cognitive capacity of children.

Reconstructing situated learning in a community of practice using cognigrams: An ethnographic case study and its archaeological implications: Hunter Gatherer Research: Vol 0, No 0 Artefacts are the primary resources of archaeological research, and they provide us with evidence about the evolution of hominin sensory-motor and cognitive capacities. Extended childhood is an evolut...

NEW PAPER. My second PhD-paper is now out. In collaboration with Miriam Haidle and @felixthehauskat.bsky.social, we have used the method of cognigrammetry on a bow-and-arrow play set from the Wodaabe in West Africa. FInd it here: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...