Vaikų pėdsakai Viduramžių mieste: naujos avalynės tyrimų galimybės ir perspektyvos
Traces of children in the Medieval city: New possibilities in footwear research

Summary/Abstract: The children’s footwear that has been discovered during excavations has up until now been poorly investigated, despite it containing demographic, social, and even sociocultural information about the inhabitants of the city and/or its individual quarters. The article’s aim is to attempt to partially close this gap and present a new possibility for comparing palaeoosteological material and archaeological footwear attributed to individuals of a specific age. The advantages and disadvantages of the employed method and the possibilities of interpreting investigation results are discussed by focusing on the investigation of children’s footwear. A synthesis of the material from two Vilnius City archaeological sites (the Bokšto St. 6 cemetery from the second half of the 13th – early 15th centuries and the 14th – early 16th-century layers from the Lower Castle) is presented in the article as an example. The article shows how the results of this synthesis can become a source for the investigation of the most important children in a castle.

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