Abstract
A set of Swedish and N orwegian burial-grounds and churchyards from the Neolithic to the Early Middle Ages (3500 BC—1350 AD) is analysed as concerns children's graves. Patterns of burial rituals corresponding to various concepts of childhood are constructed. Childhood is looked upon as a cultural construction independent of time and space. The basic growth process from infancy to adulthood is fundamental to the concept of childhood in all societies, but its transformation into burial ritual, material culture, symbols, and ideology is varied.
Highlights
Of the living population 33% was younger than 15 years
The picture may have been about the same during prehistoric time, marriage patterns are known to have changed during the Middle Ages (Benedictow 1993), and little is known before that
Little is known about all these prehistoric children
Summary
13).The intention is to show various kinds of burial rituals as concerns children's graves, and perhaps various views of childhood. Many of the children in the Early Iron Age graves on the island of Öland TO BE BURIED Of the Neolithic populations 15—20% are children's graves (Tab. 1).
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