As with young parents who postponed to find a babysitter for Saturday night, children have long remained a background issue for many of the archeologists that study humankind in the Ice Age. 1 Both the parents and the archeologists obviously have their reasons, understandable as well as less understandable. But as befits a blog on the humanities, and with apologies to any young parents out there, today we are going to focus on the archeologists. Why did children up until recently constitute a rather minor concern for these scholars? And could our knowledge of the distant past profit from centering the younger humans more? Those questions – and more! – will be answered below. These answers are mostly sourced from a great book on the subject, Growing Up in the Ice Age: Fossil and Archaeological Evidence of the Lived Lives of Plio-Pleistocene Children by paleolithic archeologist April Nowell, which I cannot recommend enough for those whose interest is piqued.2