Buster, Lindsey Sarah orcid.org/0000-0003-4121-9431 (2022) From Human Remains to Powerful Objects:Ancestor Research from a Deep-Time Perspective. Genealogy. ISSN 2313-5778
Abstract
Family history research has seen a surge in popularity in recent years; however, is this preoccupation with who we are and where we come from new? Archaeological evidence suggests that ancestors played crucial and ubiquitous roles in the identities and cosmologies of past societies. This paper will explore how, in the absence of genealogical websites and DNA testing, kinship structures and understandings of personhood beyond genealogy may have influenced concepts of ancestry. Case studies from later prehistoric Britain will demonstrate the ways in which monuments, objects and human remains themselves created bonds between the living and the dead, prompting us to reflect on genealogy as just one aspect of our identity in the present.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2022 by the author. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. |
Keywords: | archaeology,bereavement studies,continuing bonds,problematic stuff,ancestors,personhood |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (York) > Archaeology (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 11 Mar 2022 14:00 |
Last Modified: | 17 Dec 2024 00:22 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.3390/genealogy6010023 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.3390/genealogy6010023 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:184644 |