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Infanticide in Roman Britain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Simon Mays
Simon Mays*
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Ancient Monuments Laboratory, English Heritage, 23 Savile Row, London W1X 1AB, England
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Age-distributions of perinatal infants from Romano-British sites and a medieval site are different and may reflect different major causes of death. Whilst the medieval infants probably represent natural deaths, the Romano-British infants, from both cemetery and non-cemetery sites, may mainly represent victims of infanticide.

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Antiquity , Volume 67 , Issue 257 , December 1993, pp. 883 - 888
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1993

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