Introduction: archaeological approaches to medieval childhood, c. 500-1500 / D.M. Hadley and K.A. Hemer -- Archaeology of the medieval family / Sally Crawford -- "Merely players": playtime, material culture and medieval childhood / Mark A. Hall -- The spaces of late medieval peasant childhood: children and social reproduction / Sally V. Smith -- Seeing the medieval child: evidence from household and craft / Maureen Mellor -- Eavesdropping on short lives: eaves-drip burial and the differential treatment of children one year of age and under in early Christian cemeteries / Elizabeth Craig-Atkins -- Through the flames of the pyre: the continuing search for Anglo-Saxon infants and children / Kirsty E. Squires -- Are we nearly there yet? Children and migration in early medieval western Britain / K.A. Hemer -- Interdisciplinarity, archaeology and the study of medieval childhood / Carenza Lewis