CULTURES OF PHYSICAL MODIFICATIONS:
CHILD BODIES IN ANCIENT CYPRUS

Kirsi O. Lorentz

Trinity College, Trinity St., Cambridge, CB2 1TQ, UK
Grahame Clark Laboratory,
Department of Archaeology,
University of Cambridge,
Cambridge, CB2 3DZ, UK

kol20@cam.ac.uk

 

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NOTES

  1. I would like to acknowledge support from the following funding bodies: Trinity College (Cambridge) Rouse Ball Funds, Smutts Funds for Commonwealth Research (University of Cambridge), Osk. Huttunen Foundation, British Academy.
  2. As categorised by archaeologists.
  3. All photographs by the author.
  4. Hamilton (1994).
  5. See Knapp & Meskell (1997: 186, 193 – 195) for examples and a fuller discussion.
  6. These grave goods may include imported objects of precious metals.
  7. Individuals shown as being born, breastfed or cradleboarded are all initially recognised by associations between the adult and infant bodies and their positioning in relation to each other, and in some cases secondarily through the infant body’s association with particular attributes (such as the cradleboard).
  8. As well as swaddling, the feeding bottle can also be seen as a distancing device (Fildes 1986).
  9. The infant as an active agent emerges.
  10. Asymmetry of the cranium with posterior-lateral flattening on one side with concomitant bulging on the other.