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Monuments and Minds: Monument Re-use in Scandinavia in the Second Half of the First Millennium AD

by Eva S. Thate

In the Late Iron Age and Viking Age prehistoric sites were regularly re-used for burial; this study analyses 162 sites across Denmark, Norway and Sweden as well as the evidence from sagas, to build a clearer picture of the importance and frequency of re-use, the types of monuments which were re-used and what all this can tell us about people's perceptions of and attitutdes towards the past. Eva Thate also looks at regional variations in re-use of graves, and at the social class and status of those buried. Overall she finds that such re-use was in the main respectful of the original burialsand that legitmation through establishing links with the past may have been a primary motivation in monument re-use. 336p b/w figs CD-Rom (Acta Archaeologica Lundensia 4,27 2007)

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"A major contribution to a previously neglected area of Scandinavian research."

Alexandra Sanmark
Journal of Medieval Archaeology, vol 53 (2009)

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