Depicting the dead: Commemoration through cists, cairns and symbols in early medieval Britain

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Authors
Williams, Howard
Affiliation
University of Chester
Publication Date
2007-06-01

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Abstract
This article argues that early medieval cairns and mounds served to commemorate concepts of gender and geneology. Excavations at Lundin Links in Fife are used as exemplar.
Citation
Williams, H. (2007). Depicting the dead: Commemoration through cists, cairns and symbols in early medieval Britain. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 17(2), 145-164. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959774307000224
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Journal
Cambridge Archaeological Journal
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10034/263226
DOI
10.1017/S0959774307000224
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http://www.journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0959774307000224
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Article
Language
en
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This is the publsher's PDF of an article published in Cambridge archaeological journal© 2007. The definitive version is available at http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=CAJ
ISSN
0959-7743
EISSN
1474-0540
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