ABSTRACT
Thinking of the socio-cultural drivers of infra-generationality, “as a society’s life course is culturally grounded, it is subject to temporal and spatial differences, which are attested in the Roman Empire”. The Oneota example offers some speculation about the relationship between even longer-term genetic and environmental-climatic conditions, childhoods and human generations. The chapter explores how various forms of damage might be points of articulation for the multiple spatialities and chronologies of infra-generations. Some of the older toys being sold on an online selling site have been subject to damage through various interfaces and forms of unit operations – whether from playing and/or the effects of the exposure of sub-surface materials to rusting, as even apparently inert materials like metals undergo transformation. Fulminante combines bioarchaeological analyses of children’s skeletal remains with ancient historical texts to interrogate the widely held view that breastfeeding duration declined with increasing levels of urbanisation.
