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

Williams, Howard2012-12-192012-12-192007-06-01Williams, 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/S09597743070002240959-774310.1017/S0959774307000224http://hdl.handle.net/10034/263226This 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=CAJThis 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.enmortuary commemorationFifegravesBritainDepicting the dead: Commemoration through cists, cairns and symbols in early medieval BritainArticle1474-0540Cambridge Archaeological Journal17(2), 145-164.