nants of kinship and grief in the past. Rebay-Salisbury’s chapter also supplies numerous examples of such burials from Bronze Age Austria, with a more specific focus on mother/ child relationships. In addition, she highlights some truly remarkable multiple interments, including the body of a man overlaying three children (DNA results are pending), and the touching burial of two children aged 2 and 6 years, possibly siblings, in an embrace. Inevitably, many of the chapters focus on burial evidence, but a number also incorporate information gleaned from textual sources to aid interpretations. For example, Zoega’s chapter on early Christian household cemeteries from Northern Iceland shows how three-generation households were common. The importance of this lived proximity for the transmission of inter-generational knowledge, experience and familial identity was significant. These cemeteries add another dimension to the Icelandic Sagas which more often present a negative image of old age, with a diminution of power and status. It reminds us that power has different forms. Gallou’s chapter on Minoan and Mycenaean societies of the late Bronze Age Aegean is one of the few that focuses on material rather than skeletal evidence. She provides a rich array of relevant evidence for children and older generations, including artistic depictions of elderly women playing active roles in ritual healing, as well as childcare and funerary preparations. Other chapters from Le Roy and colleagues examine the under-representation and occasional complete absence of children under 5 years from Neolithic burial contexts in France. Denham and colleagues highlight the value of cremated human remains and archival records for understanding age-related burial practice in the Bronze and Iron Age in Norway. Given the focus on skeletal remains throughout the book, it is apt that the final chapter by Maaranen and Buckberry addresses the thorny problem of skeletal age estimation and the tendency for current techniques to under-estimate age-at-death of older people and thus contribute to their invisibility. Overall, this is an excellent book and I highly recommend it. My only minor criticism is that the introduction felt a bit cursory and could have done more to set the scene in terms of current theoretical and methodological approaches to the life course. The book would also have benefited from a concluding chapter to highlight key themes and future directions. The book showcases innovative and creative approaches for exploring hitherto elusive intergenerational relationships in the past. I will leave you with Gallou’s (70) pertinent observation at the end of her excellent chapter: ‘There is no foot too small or too old that it cannot leave an imprint on this world, past and present’.

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罗马世界的婴儿期和最早的童年。《一段时光》

过去的亲情和悲伤。Rebay-Salisbury 的章节还提供了许多青铜时代奥地利此类墓葬的例子，更具体地关注母子关系。此外，她还强调了一些真正非凡的多重葬礼，包括一个男人的尸体覆盖了三个孩子（DNA 结果待定），以及两个 2 岁和 6 岁的孩子（可能是兄弟姐妹）拥抱在一起的感人葬礼。不可避免地，许多章节侧重于埋葬证据，但也有一些章节包含从文本来源收集的信息以帮助解释。例如，Zoega 关于冰岛北部早期基督教家庭墓地的章节展示了三代家庭是多么普遍。这种居住距离对于代际知识传播的重要性，经验和家族认同感很重要。这些墓地为冰岛的传奇增添了另一个维度，它更经常呈现出老年的负面形象，权力和地位的下降。它提醒我们，权力有不同的形式。加卢关于青铜时代晚期爱琴海的米诺斯和迈锡尼社会的章节是少数关注物质而非骨骼证据的章节之一。她为儿童和老一辈提供了丰富的相关证据，包括对老年妇女在仪式治疗、育儿和丧葬准备中发挥积极作用的艺术描绘。Le Roy 及其同事的其他章节研究了法国新石器时代墓葬环境中 5 岁以下儿童的代表性不足和偶尔完全缺席的情况。Denham 及其同事强调了火化人类遗骸和档案记录对于理解挪威青铜和铁器时代与年龄相关的埋葬实践的价值。鉴于整本书都关注骨骼遗骸，因此 Maaranen 和 Buckberry 的最后一章很恰当地解决了骨骼年龄估计的棘手问题以及当前技术低估老年人死亡年龄的趋势，从而做出了贡献。到他们的隐形。总的来说，这是一本很棒的书，我强烈推荐它。我唯一的小批评是，介绍感觉有点草率，本可以做更多的事情来根据当前生命历程的理论和方法论方法来设置场景。这本书还可以从一个总结性的章节中受益，以突出关键主题和未来的方向。这本书展示了探索过去难以捉摸的代际关系的创新方法。我将给您留下加卢 (Gallou) (70) 在她出色的一章结尾处的中肯评论：“没有一只脚太小或太老，以至于它无法在这个世界上留下印记，过去和现在”。