Archaeology in Social Media | Academia.edu Chronicles 14

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Hello & welcome once again to my continuing eclectic ramble through archaeology papers on Academia.edu that I find interesting and deserving of attention. Once again, I’d ask you to take a look at Stuart Rathbone’s latest book on Irish archaeology: Archaeological Boundaries. Discussions, Experiments and Unprovoked Attacks. I do realise that I’m somewhat biased (I’m his editor and general co-conspirator), but I do genuinely believe that this is among the most important books ever published on Irish archaeology and showcases Stuart’s abilities as a paradigm-altering thinker. As if that wasn’t enough, the book is available as a pay-what-you-think-is-fair downloadable PDF from Leanpub. If that whetted you taste for more, have a look at this latest collection of good reads (and start off with a couple of other Rathbone papers!


Stuart Rathbone (re)Building Stonegenge. Investigating the curious desire to replicate a Wiltshire monument
Stuart Rathbone Transhumance structures at Deer's Meadow, Co Down
Stuart Rathbone Analysis of low cost methods for assessing Signal Defensible Guardhouses in challenging environments across North West Ireland
Stuart Rathbone Optically stimulated luminescence dating on the M3 in County Meath

Aidan O'Sullivan & Robert Van de Noort Temporality, cultural biography and seasonality: rethinking time in wetland archaeology
Aidan O'Sullivan Place, Memory and Identity Among Estuarine Fishing Communities: Interpreting the Archaeology of Early Medieval Fish Weirs
Aidan O'Sullivan Experimental Archaeology: making; understanding; story-telling

Audrey Horning Cultures Of Contact, Cultures Of Conflict? Identity Construction, Colonialist Discourse, and the Ethics of Archaeological Practice in Northern Ireland

Finbar McCormick Struell Wells:pagan past and Christian present

Patrick Geary Sacred Commodities: The Circulation of Medieval Relics

David Petts Expanding The Archaeology Of Holy Island (Lindisfarne)

Ian Armit Hillforts at war: from Maiden Castle to Taniwaha pā

Mary Cahill Mr Anthony's bog oak case of gold antiquities

Rick Schulting, Anne Tresset, & Catherine Dupont From harvesting the sea to stock rearing along the Atlantic façade of north-west Europe

F G McCormac et al. Extended Radiocarbon Calibration in the Anglo-Saxon Period, AD 395-485 and AD 735-805

Stephen Davis et al. Boyne Valley Landscape Project

Damian Shiels The Kinsale Battlefield Project [and the complete IPMAG Newsletter from Winter 2007]

Richard Warner Keeping out the Otherworld: the internal ditch at Navan and other Iron Age 'hengiform' enclosures
Richard Warner The Lisburn area in the Early Christian period. Part 1: setting the scene
Richard Warner The Lisburn area in the Early Christian period, part 2: some people and places

Kaarina Hollo The UIster Cycle, the Law-tracts, and the Medieval Court: The Depiction of Senchae mac Ailella, Aurlabraid Ulad

Catriona Gibson Beakers into Bronze: Tracing connections between Iberia and the British Isles 2800-800 BC
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