# Jackson 1984: The Symbol Stones of Scotland: A Social Anthropological Resolution to the Problem of the Picts

> Anthony Jackson, 1984. 1 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The marriage-alliance claim.

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# The Symbol Stones of Scotland: A Social Anthropological Resolution to the Problem of the Picts

Anthony Jackson, 1984. _Orkney Press, Kirkwall_.

An anthropologist's reading of the symbol pairs as records of marriage alliances between matrilineal lineages.

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Jackson, A. (1984). The Symbol Stones of Scotland: A Social Anthropological Resolution to the Problem of the Picts. Orkney Press, Kirkwall. https://her.highland.gov.uk/Source/SHG2357
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