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

早期的历史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，相互竞争的宗教身份，反复的流行病和气候危机。在这场混乱中，新兴的纪念碑金石学传统（皮克特符号石，第一组石头和奥格姆柱）不断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，本论文将探讨这些传统中史前材料的共享再利用（或唤起），调查“过去的过去”以及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.