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The landscape of a Swedish boat-grave cemetery

Williams, Howard
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Rundkvist, Martin
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Danielsson, Arne
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University of Chester
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2010-03-01
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The paper integrates topographical and experiential approaches to the mortuary landscape of a Viking period inhumation-grave excavated in 2005 within the cemetery at Skamby, Kuddy parish, Östergötland province, Sweden. We argue that the landscape context was integral to the performance of the funerary ceremonies and the subsequent monumental presence of the dead in the landscape. We offer a way to move beyond monocausal explanations for burial location based on single-scale analyses. Instead, we suggest that boat-inhumation at Skamby was a commemorative strategy that operated on multiple scales and drew its significance from multiple landscape attributes.
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Williams, H., Rundkvist, M. & Danielsson, A. (2010). The landscape of a Swedish boat-grave cemetery, Landscapes. 11(1), 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1179/lan.2010.11.1.1
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Oxbow
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Landscapes
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http://hdl.handle.net/10034/311915
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10.1179/lan.2010.11.1.1
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en
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This is the published PDF version of an article published in Landscapes© 2010. The definitive version is available at https://doi.org/10.1179/lan.2010.11.1.1
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1466-2035
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1179/lan.2010.11.1.1