Depicting the Dead

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

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