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- Title
Depicting the Dead: Commemoration Through Cists, Cairns and Symbols in Early Medieval Britain.
- Authors
Howard Williams
- Abstract
This article develops recent interpretations of mortuary practices as contexts for producing social memory and personhood to argue that early medieval cairns and mounds served to commemorate concepts of gender and genealogy. Commemorative strategies are identified in the composite character, shape and location of cairns and in their relationship with other commemorative monuments, namely Class I symbol-stones. The argument is developed through a consideration of the excavations of early medieval cists and cairns at Lundin Links in Fife.
- Subjects
FUNERAL industry; PERSONALITY (Theory of knowledge); COLLECTIVE memory; CAIRNS; MOUNDS (Archaeology); ARCHAEOLOGICAL excavations
- Publication
Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 2007, Vol 17, Issue 2, p145
- ISSN
0959-7743
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0959774307000224