The symbol carving process as a mnemonic manipulator of ‘deep’ genealogy in Early Medieval Scotland
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11616756 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Meggen Gondek (0000-0002-8418-549X, University of Chester, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 180 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 137-157 |
| Publication date | 2023-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Archaeological Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0066-5983 • E-ISSN: 2373-2288 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00665983.2023.2263923 |
| OpenAlex | W4388727937 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 35 |
Scotland's corpus of Early Medieval carved stone monuments is a rich dataset for explorations of cultural connections, power and ideology. This article explores how meaning and significance might be interpreted from the reuse of prehistoric stone monuments in the Pictish period via close examination of the materiality, landscape and transformation processes of one case study from Nether Corskie, Aberdeenshire. Technologies of transformation of the existing stone are considered and contextualized as evidence of contemporary concerns and manipulations of concepts and memories of genealogy, ancestry and place
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Carving · Epistemology · Genealogy · Ideology · Linguistics · Literature · Materiality (auditing · Meaning (existential · Mnemonic · Politics · Prehistory · Symbol (formal · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Historical Studies of British Isles · History · Medieval Literature and History · Philosophy
Early Medieval Britain, c. 500–1000
Portmahomack
Death and Memory in Early Medieval Britain
Prehistoric Materialities
Time Regained
The Animal Art of the Scottish Iron Age and its Origins
The Reuse of Prehistoric Standing Stones in Western Britain? A Critical Consideration of an Aspect of Early Medieval Monument Reuse
Report on Stone Circles in Kincardineshire (North), and part of Aberdeenshire, with measured Plans and Drawings, obtained under the Gunning Fellowship
Cup-Marks on the Stone Circles and Standing-Stones of Aberdeenshire and part of Banffshire
Notes on Some Aberdeenshire Sculptured Stones and Crosses
Reconnaissance excavations on early historic fortifications and other royal sites in Scotland, 1974-84; 5
Notes on some Stone Circles in the South of Aberdeenshire and North of Kincardineshire
Reading the Multiple Lives of Pictish Symbol Stones
Investing in Sculpture
Constructing Kingship in Early Medieval Ireland
Clumsy and Illogical’? Reconsidering the West Kirby Hogback
What Do Objects Want
Monuments and the past in early Anglo-Saxon England
Ancestors and identity in the later prehistory of Atlantic Scotland
The powers of rocks
Necrogeography and necroscapes
Reflections on the making of a 'royal site' in early Ireland
Picts and prehistory
Stone
The Early Christian Monuments of Scotland
Between prehistory and history
The development of the Pictish symbol system
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |