Archaeology in Social Media | Academia.edu Chronicles 11


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Once again, I'm back with a selection of reading materials - mostly on Irish archaeology - from the Academia.edu holdings. They are a collection of papers and chapters that caught my attention and I reckoned would be of wider interest, if you've not already encountered them. However, before you dive into any of these, I would ask you to take a look at the new book by Stuart Rathbone: Archaeological Boundaries. Discussions, Experiments and Unprovoked Attacks. Go take a look & then come back to these!

Even if you're not immediately ready to commit to a book length offering from Stuart, there's always a select collection of his papers to start you off!
Stuart Rathbone: A Middle Bronze Age stone head from Slievemore, Achill Island, Co Mayo
Stuart Rathbone: Excavating the Cromlech Tumulus on Slievemore. The story so far
Stuart Rathbone: The Village People. An Early History of Neighbourly Disputes

Vicki Cummings: A view from the west: the Neolithic of the Irish Sea zone

John Sheehan: The Peacock’s Tale: excavations at Caherlehillan, Kerry, Ireland

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

Paul Stevens: For whom the bell tolls: the monastic site at Clonfad 3, Co. Westmeath

Rick Schulting: War without warriors? The nature of interpersonal conflict before the emergence of formalised warrior élites

Robin Bendrey, Nick Thorpe, Alan Outram, & Louise H. Van Wijngaarden-Bakker: The origins of domestic horses in north-west Europe: new direct dates on the horses of Newgrange, Ireland

M. McClatchie, A. Bogaard, S. Colledge, N.J. Whitehouse, R.J. Schulting, P. Barratt, & T.R. McLaughlin: Neolithic farming in north-western Europe: archaeobotanical evidence from Ireland

Kerri Cleary: Skeletons in the closet: the dead among the living on Irish Bronze Age settlements

Paul Gosling: The Route of Táin Bó Cúailnge in County Louth

George Eogan, Elizabeth Shee Twohig, & Ken Williams: Containing the dead in Irish Passage tombs

Patrick Gleeson: Kingship and Architecture in 11th and 12th century Cashel

Alison Sheridan: Neolithic connections along and across the Irish Sea

Mark Gardiner: The exploitation of sea-mammals in medieval England: bones and their social context

Niall O Ciosain: Popular Song, Readers and Language: printed anthologies of songs in Irish and Scottish Gaelic, 1780-1820

Elizabeth Shee Twohig: Devoted to Archaeology: Professor (Canon) Patrick Power (1862–1951)

Aimée Little: The Island and the Hill. Extracting Scales of Sociability from a Mesolithic Chert Quarry

John Waddell: The Archaeology of Aran
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