The Agora Bone Well /
The book concerns a 2nd-century B.C. Athenian well containing the bones of nearly 460 newborn infants, a few older individuals, about 150 dogs and other cultural waste. It focuses on neonatal mortality, the deaths of infants in the first few days of life and especially on how the babies died, how an...
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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: |
Liston, Maria A.
(Author),
Rotroff, Susan I., 1947-
(Author),
Snyder, Lynn M.
(Author) |
Other Authors: |
Stewart, Andrew
(Contributor) |
Format: | Book
|
Language: | English |
Published: |
Princeton, New Jersey :
American School of Classical Studies at Athens,
[2018]
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Series: | Hesperia (Princeton, N.J.). Supplement ;
50.
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Subjects: | |