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Greetings dear reader and welcome, once again, to my personal trawl through the archaeological (mostly Irish) papers on Academia.edu. Before we begin, please take a moment to check out Stuart Rathbone’s rather excellent new book Archaeological Boundaries. Discussions, Experiments and Unprovoked Attacks. While you can download it for free from the Leanpub site, it’d be lovely if you felt moved to contribute a few pounds/euros/dollars … whatever you’ve got! Anyway, here’s my latest list of ‘what’s good to read’ – enjoy!


Philip Macdonald Archaeological Excavation at Inisloughlin, County Antrim: Identifying the Gaelic Fort of 'Enishlanghen'

Stephen Cameron, Philip Macdonald, & Brian Sloan Two Assemblages of Worked Flint from Linford, County Antrim

Spencer Carter Lithics Report | Analysis of a lithic find from Weaverthorpe, North Yorkshire, for East Riding Archaeology

Michelle Comber Trade and Communication Networks in Early Historic Ireland

Julian Thomas On the origins and development of cursus monuments in Britain

Charlotte Damm A Linguistic Map of Prehistoric Northern Europe. From Entities to Interaction: Replacing pots and people with networks of transmission

James Bonsall, Chris Gaffney, & Ian Armit Preparing for the Future: A reappraisal of archaeo-geophysical surveying on Irish National Road Schemes 2001-2010

Patrick Gleeson Constructing Kingship in Early Medieval Ireland: Power, Place and Ideology

Duncan Berryman The defensibility of Irish Tower Houses - A study

Eve Campbell & Andrew McGuinness Mapping the Minor Place Names of the Cooley Mountains

Erin-Lee Halstad McGuire Manifestations of identity in burial: Evidence from Viking-Age graves in the North Atlantic diaspora

Damian Shiels Irish in the American Civil War
Damian Shiels Kerry in the American Civil War
Damian Shiels Galway & the American Civil War
Damian Shiels Wicklow & the American Civil War
Damian Shiels Cork & the American Civil War
Damian Shiels Clothing the Confederacy: Peter Tait & the Confederate States of  America
Damian Shiels Profiles in Courage: The Irish Dimension to the Medal of Honor
Damian Shiels Last Letters Home. Revealing the Pension File Correspondence of Union Irish Soldiers & their Families
Damian Shiels Irish Soldiers in the American Civil War: New Sources, New Insights
Damian Shiels The History and Archaeology of Bere Island's Early 19th Century Defences
Damian Shiels Fortress Bere: The Archaeology of Bere Island's Defence


Christina Fredengren Water politics. Wet deposition of human and animal remains in Uppland, Sweden
Location: Belfast, Belfast, UK

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