ABSTRACT
The pre-Hellenic populations of Sicily are known primarily through their funerary remains. Children, however, are conspicuously under-represented in the huge and often spectacular rock-cut cemeteries of Late Bronze Age and Iron Age Sicily. This chapter examines the possible reasons for this, including problems of the survival and retrieval of small and fragile skeletal remains and conceivably the exclusion of many children from formal burial in these cemeteries. Some children, however, appear to have received special treatment in terms of tomb design and grave goods, indicating that they occupied special positions in the eyes of their adult mourners.
