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

Williams, Howard
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University of Chester
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2007-06-01
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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.
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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
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Cambridge University Press
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Cambridge Archaeological Journal
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http://hdl.handle.net/10034/263226
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10.1017/S0959774307000224
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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
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0959-7743
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1474-0540
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