Ebook: Across the Generations: The Old and the Young in Past Societies. Proceedings from the 22nd Annual Meeting of the EAA in Vilnius, Lithuania, 31st August - 4th September 2016

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.