This paper examines the potential for identifying play and children's imitation in the archaeological record and reviews cultural constructions of play and cross-cultural behaviour. A case study, using a lithic assemblage from a discrete knapping area for Scandinavian Neolithic axe production in Southern Sweden which identifies a child's activity area, is discussed. The theoretical and methodological assumptions behind play, imitation and its identification as well as its social implications are also examined. © 2007 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.
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Högberg, A. (2008). Playing with flint: Tracing a child’s imitation of adult work in a lithic assemblage. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 15(1), 112–131. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-007-9050-4
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