Archaeology in Social Media | Academia.edu Chronicles 18



It has been a while, but here’s my take on what’s the best and most interesting in (mostly) Irish archaeological and historical material on Academia.edu … have a read, find and follow the authors most relevant to your research interests … when you’re done, come have a look at some of my stuff [here].

Merryn Dineley: Who were the first maltsters? The archaeological evidence for floor malting
Merryn Dineley: Neolithic Ale: Barley as a source of sugars for fermentation

Richard Warner: Beehive querns and Irish 'La Tene' artefacts: a statistical test of their cultural relatedness

Eamonn Kelly: The longphort in Viking-Age Ireland: the archaeological evidence

Elizabeth Twohig: Containing the dead in Irish Passage tombs

Mary Cahill: 'Here comes the sun....' solar symbolism in Early Bronze Age Ireland
Mary Cahill: A stone to die for [Hacketstown, Co. Waterford]
Mary Cahill et al.: James Carruthers, a Belfast Antiquarian Collector

Alan Hayden: Maynooth Castle, Co. Kildare: excavation of the donjon

Sophie Bergerbrant et al.: Violent Death and Wetlands: Sketal Remains from Gotland

Robin Bendrey: From wild horses to domestic horses: a European perspective

Mélanie Roffet-Salque et al.: From the inside out: Upscaling organic residue analyses of archaeological ceramics

Michael Connolly et al.: Underworld: Death & Burial in Cloghermore Cave, County Kerry

Benjamin Roberts: Farmers in the Landscape or Heroes on the High Seas? Britain and Ireland in the Bronze Age

Jonny Geber & Eileen Murphy: Scurvy in the great irish famine: Evidence of vitamin C deficiency from a mid-19th century skeletal population

Thomas Finan: The Hall House at Kilteasheen

Charles Mount: Bronze razors from Peafield cremation burial

Fiona Gavin: Insular Military-Style silver pins in late Iron Age Ireland
Location: Belfast, UK

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