The Cultural Construction of Childhood in Scandinavia, 3500 BC—1350AD

A set of Swedish and N orwegian burial-grounds churchyards from the Neolithic to Early Middle Ages (3500 BC—1350 AD) is analysed as concerns children's graves. Patterns burial rituals corresponding various concepts childhood are constructed. Childhood looked upon a cultural construction independent time space. The basic growth process infancy adulthood fundamental concept in all societies, but its transformation into ritual, material culture, symbols, ideology varied.