early medieval Scotland (Other Keyword)
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The most prevalent theory concerning intercultural interaction demands a dominant-subordinate relationship in which the subordinate group passively accepts the culture imposed on them by the dominant population. This argument is often applied to Scotland in the first millennium AD, where the transferred cultures are the Irish, Anglo-Saxons, Romans, Norse, and others from continental Europe. Studies of beads in Scotland are particularly affected by these theories: very few beads are seen as...
Mapping, monumentalizing and protecting the barrow cemeteries of eastern and northern Scotland (2016)
In later Iron Age Scotland, the Picts begin to bury their dead under barrows and cairns, but the social, ideological and political triggers for this change in burial practice are unclear. One of the reasons is that the archaeological data has never been properly synthesized. No written sources exist in Scotland at this time so the archaeological data represents an important untapped resource. This talk will look at monumentalisation of Pictish barrow cemeteries and their relationship to...