Depicting the Dead
Commemoration Through Cists, Cairns and Symbols in Early Medieval Britain
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6043876 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Howard Williams (0000-0003-3510-6852, University of Exeter, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 145-164 |
| Publication date | 2007-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cambridge Archaeological Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0959-7743 • E-ISSN: 1474-0540 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0959774307000224 |
| OpenAlex | W2022393688 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 35 |
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
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Epistemology · Excavation · Genealogy · Linguistics · Literature · Personhood · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Classics · Historical Studies of British Isles · History · Medieval Literature and History · Philosophy
The Archaeology of Human Bones
Death and Memory in Early Medieval Britain
The Archaeology of Human Bones
Ideology, symbolic power and ritual communication
Children, grave goods and social status in Early Anglo-Saxon England
The Early Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries of East Yorkshire
An Archaeology of the Early Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms
Remembering and Forgetting the Medieval Dead
Towards a Chronology of Megaliths
The Reinterpretation of the Pictish Symbols
Time Regained
Female status and power in early Merovingian central Austrasia
Prehistoric and Early Medieval Cemeteries at Tandderwen, near Denbigh, Clwyd
The Interpretation of the Pictish Symbols
Excavations at the long cist cemetery on the Hallow Hill, St Andrews, Fife, 1975-7
Excavations in the Dairy Park, Dunrobin, Sutherland, 1977
Excavation of a cairn cemetery at Lundin Links, Fife, in 1965-6
Norrie's Law, Fife
A first millennium AD cemetery, rectangular Bronze Age structure and late prehistoric settlement at Thornybank, Midlothian
Low cairns, long cists and symbol stones
A Long Cist Cemetery at Parkburn Sand Pit, Lasswade, Midlothian
Excavation of a number of Graves in a Mound at Ackergill, Caithness
Excavation of Graves at Ackergill and of an Earth-house at Freswick Links, Caithness, and a Description of the Discovery of a Viking Grave at Reay, Caithness
Ancient Landscapes and the Dead
An Iona of the East
The spindle and the spear
The Archaeology of Personhood
The Powerful Dead
Time in the reproduction of mortuary practices
Picts and prehistory
The Early Christian Monuments of Scotland
Material metaphors
Grave-Goods as Gifts in Early Saxon Burials (ca. AD 450-600)
Death Warmed up
Personhood and Social Relations in the British Neolithic with a Study from the Isle of Man
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,22 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2017 (10) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |