La percepción de la infancia en el Mundo Ibérico

Abstract

This paper tries to analyze childhood during the Iron Age "Iberian Culture", a topic which has received almost no attention up to now. Any society must find an efficient system in order to transmit to their descendants the body of principles and rules that constitute its foundations, as this is essential to its perpetuation. The way children are treated is a window through which we can discover some keys of the social and ideological organization of any human group. Different archaeological contexts of Iberian infancy are here analysed, and some hypothesis are offered about how Iberians organized the different stages of growth, from birth until youth.