TY - JOUR AU - Gallou, Chrysanthi PY - 2019/05/02 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - 5. White Hair and Feeding Bottles: Exploring Interactions Between Children and the Elderly in the Late Bronze Age Aegean JF - AmS-Skrifter JA - AmS-Skrifter VL - IS - 26 SE - Articles DO - 10.31265/ams-skrifter.v0i26.210 UR - https://journals.uis.no/index.php/AmS-Skrifter/article/view/210 SP - 61-76 AB - <p>Scholarship on age and gender in prehistoric Greece has taken an adult-centric approach with focus placed mostly on young to&nbsp;middle-aged men and women and, as a result, two significant age groups – children and the elderly – have been widely neglected.&nbsp;Lacking a strong insight into attitudes that were shown towards these two age groups, however means that archaeologists do not&nbsp;really harbour a concept of the whole span of life in the cultures that developed in the Aegean region during the Late Bronze Age.&nbsp;Making children and the elderly visible in the archaeological record and examining their social roles, agency and interactions is vital&nbsp;for a better understanding of the social workings of the prehistoric Aegean world. Integrating an interdisciplinary methodology&nbsp;with a systematic study of the available material remains – ranging from the study of funerary contexts to iconographic sources&nbsp;and textual references, this study seeks to assess the evidence for childhood and old age in the Late Bronze Age Aegean, and to shed&nbsp;light − for the first time − on the interactions between the younger and older segments of the population in both life and death from&nbsp;the mid-seventeenth to the twelfth centuries BC.</p> ER -