Updated papers presented at the infancy and childhood conference at the University of Kent in 2005. From this conference the new Society - the Study of Childhood in the Past (SSCIP) emerged. Contents: 1) The Osteology of Infancy and Childhood: Misconceptions and potential (Mary Lewis); 2) Subadult or Subaltern? Children as serial categories (Frederik Fahlander); 3) Etruscan Infants: Children's cemeteries at Tarquinia, Italy, as indicators of an age of transition (Marshall J. Becker); 4) Thrown Out with the Bathwater or Properly Buried? Neonate and infant skeletons in a settlement context on the Durrnberg bei Hallein, Austria (Raimund Karl and Klaus Locker); 5) The Children in the Bog (Grete Lillehammer); 6) Parenting, Childloss and the Cillini of post-Medieval Ireland (Eileen Murphy); 7) The Disposal of Dead Infants in Anglo-Saxon England from c.500-1066: An overview (Sally Crawford); 8) Where Have All The Flowers Gone? Bronze Age children's burials in south-east England: Initial thoughts (Dawn McClaren); 9) Ble Mae'r Babanod? Infant burial in early Medieval Wales (Marion R. Page); 10) Childhood in Roman Egypt: Bioarchaeology of the Kellis 2 cemetery, Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt (Sandra M. Wheeler et al); 11) Constituting Childhood"