Galanidoe And Dommasnes, Eds., Telling Children About The Past - An Interdisciplinary Perspective

Abstract

Telling Children About the Past is an anthology of essays on a diversity of subjects. The focus is on representing the past to "younger audiences." I found it interesting to see that neither of the two editors and none of the contributors are historians in the usual sense of the word: The editors are archeologists and most of the contributors are archeologists or psychologists. Because many of the authors' academic interests are in archeology, most of the chapters focus on the distant past.