Archaeology in Social Media | Academia.edu Chronicles 17

Hello & welcome to this, my 17th excursion into the land of archaeological and historical papers available on the Academia.edu site. This edition is a bit of a Jim O’Neill fest … he’s written extensively on Hugh O’Neill and his world and has spent some time uploading PDF copies to the internet … I think they’re excellent and well worth the time to explore and enjoy ... so, go … read, enjoy!



James O'Neill: Doctoral Thesis: Irish warfare in the age of the Military Revolution: the ‘Nine Years War’, 1593-1603
James O'Neill: Maguire, MacBaron and Henry Duke’s crackers: the Battle of the Ford of the Biscuits, 7 August 1594
James O'Neill: The women of Tyrone's Rebellion
James O'Neill: ‘Wonderfully altered from their Irish manner of arms’: the Battle of Clontibret, 27 May 1595
James O'Neill: Gaelic primitivism? Give it a rest. The Nine Years War (1593-1603) and the zenith of native Irish military power
James O'Neill: Before Bartlett: Hugh O'Neill's Dungannon
James O'Neill: Bad result for the away side: The Battle of the Yellow Ford, 14 August 1598
James O'Neill: A graveyard for reputation: Sir John Norreys and the Battle of Mullaghbrack, 5 September 1595

Barry Molloy: Swords and Swordsmanship In the Aegean Bronze Age
Barry Molloy: Martial Arts and Materiality: a Combat Archaeology Perspective on Aegean Swords of the Fifteenth and Fourteenth Centuries BC
Barry Molloy: Use-wear analysis and use-patterns of Bronze Age swords

Spencer Carter: Charting Chipeling | An Analysis and Characterisation of Lithics from 2014 Excavations at Kiplin Hall, North Yorkshire

James Davis-Mann: Heritage interpretation using augmented reality at Sutton Scarsdale Hall

Ros O Maolduin: Preliminary Report on the excavation of Wedge tomb CL017-180002, Parknabinia, Co. Clare. Licence 15E0053
Ros O Maolduin: Exchange in Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age (EBA) Ireland: Connecting people, objects and ideas

Daniel Patrick Curley: Dundonnell Castle, Co. Roscommon: a neglected and misunderstood monument in the Irish landscape

Clare Downham: Vikings' settlements in Ireland before 1014
Clare Downham: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Portrayals of Vikings in “The Fragmentary Annals of Ireland"

Niamh Carty & Mara Tesorieri: Appendix 9.2: Human Bone [36-39 South Main St, Cork (04E0371)


Paul Gosling: Placing Names in Táin Bó Cúailnge: 'Finnabair Chúailnge' and 'Finnabair Sléibe'
Location: Belfast, UK

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