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

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…