In 2016, on behalf of The Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past (SSCIP), we organised a session, entitled ‘Giving New Meaning to Cultural Heritage: The Old and the Young in Past Societies’, at the annual conference of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) which took place in Vilnius, Lithuania.
So why did we choose to focus on the old and the young? Apart from having some fun with a fresh topic – to which we could both personally relate in our current capacity as parents and grandparent – we wished to explore approaches that could potentially both link or separate age distinctions in the human life course. There is no question that a familiar part of humanity is the bond of interrelationships between the older and younger generations in society.
Author(s): Grete Lillehammer, Eileen Murphy (eds.)
Series: AmS-Skrifter, 26
Publisher: Museum of Archaeology, University of Stavanger
Year: 2018
Language: English
Pages: 154
City: Stavanger
List of contributors – Biography Statements
1. Introduction – Across the Generations: The Old and the Young in Past Societies / GRETE LILLEHAMMER and EILEEN MURPHY 11
2. Funerary Treatment of Immature Deceased in Neolithic Collective Burial Sites in France. Were Children Buried with Adults? / MÉLIE LE ROY, STÉPHANE ROTTIER, FRÉDÉRIC SANTOS and ANNE-MARIE TILLIER 21
3. Personal Relationships between Co-Buried Individuals in the Central European Early Bronze Age / KATHARINA REBAY-SALISBURY 35
4. Grandparents in the Bronze Age? / JO APPLEBY 49
5. White Hair and Feeding Bottles: Exploring Children–Elderly Interactions in the Late Bronze Age Aegean / CHRYSANTHI GALLOU 61
6. A Search Through the Archives: Looking for the Young and the Old in a Museum’s Collections / SEAN DENHAM, MARI HØGESTØL AND GRETE LILLEHAMMER 77
7. Multiple Liminalities in Early Anglo-Saxon England: Age, Gender and Religion / CHRISTINE CAVE AND MARC OXENHAM 91
8. The Old and the Young in Early Medieval Iceland: The Evidence for Three-generational Families in the Household Cemeteries of Skagafjörður, Northern Iceland / GUÐNÝ ZOËGA 105
9. Together in Death: Demography and Funerary Practices in Contemporary Multiple Interments in Irish Medieval Burial Grounds / EILEEN MURPHY AND COLM DONNELLY 119
10. Exploring Age – Transition Analysis as a Tool for Detecting the Elderly / NINA MAARANEN AND JO BUCKBERRY 143
