Appealing to the Past in Uncertain Times: an interdisciplinary study of the reuse and evocation of prehistoric standing stones in the monumental epig

早期历史上的苏格兰是由变化定义的，经历了：大型政治结构的崩溃，政治的民族起源，大规模移民，相互竞争的宗教认同，反复的流行病，以及气候危机。在这场动荡中，新兴的纪念性金石学传统(画眉石碑、I组石碑和Ogham石柱)不同程度地重复使用史前材料或其图像，表明无论其社会、文化、政治、地理或宗教背景如何，都有共同的回顾重点。因此，这篇论文将探索这些传统中史前材料的共享再利用(或召回)，既调查过去的过去，也调查我们自己与遗产的接触。

Early historic Scotland was defined by change, experiencing: the collapse of large political structures, the ethnogenesis of polities, mass migration, competing religious identities, repeated pandemics, and a climate crisis. Amongst this turmoil, the emerging traditions of monumental epigraphy (Pictish symbol stones, Group I stones, and Ogham pillars) varyingly reused prehistoric material or its imagery, indicating a shared retrospective focus regardless of their social, cultural, political, geographical, or religious contexts. Thus, this thesis will explore the shared reuse (or evocation) of prehistoric material across these traditions, investigating both 'the past in the past' as well as our own engagement with heritage.