ABSTRACT
This chapter studies children’s daily life in Pre-Roman Rome and Latium. Even though there is little clear evidence for children’s life in settlement contexts, the infant tombs dated between the final Bronze Age and Archaic period offer data to study the status of children in this area. Many infants have been found buried in settlement contexts, whereas at necropoleis child graves are rare in comparison to expected high child mortality rates. Current archaeological data enables us to consider some aspects of children’s birth, death, nurture, dress as an indicator of age and gender, play and education, as well as the everyday tasks they performed.
