by Marga Sánchez Romero
The volume “Motherhood and Infancies in the Mediterranean in Antiquity '' explores the images of motherhood and the identification with women and womanhood in prehistoric and classic societies with examples from Mesopotamian, Phoenician or Iberian Peninsula societies. Aspects such as the crucial role of maintenance activities and care, the processes of socialization and learning, the impact of the infant death, the religious discourses about motherhood, the rules on parental rights, the transgressions of traditional motherhood or the emotional aspects of the mother-child relation are analysed. I will use this as an excuse to talk about these themes in Spanish archaeology.