Robert M Chapple, Archaeologist

[** If you like this post, please make a donation to the IR&DD project using the secure button at the right. If you think it is interesting or useful, please re-share via Facebook, Google+, Twitter etc. To help keep the site in operation, please use the amazon search portal at the right - each purchase earns a small amount of advertising revenue **] I present the concluding segment of an epic trawl through an excellent conference! < Part I | Part II | Part III | Part IV | Part V Parker Pearson in Sligo © Chapple Collection The final session of the Archaeology of Gatherings Conference was chaired by Fiona Beglane, who welcomed  Prof. Mike Parker Pearson  ( Institute of Archaeology, University College London ). Like many in archaeology, I only know him through his published works and television appearances. On TV, I’ve heard him speak and seen him wander about half of Salisbury plain. He is a respected authority on all things  Stonehenge  a...

[** If you like this post, please make a donation to the IR&DD project using the secure button at the right. If you think it is interesting or useful, please re-share via Facebook, Google+, Twitter etc. To help keep the site in operation, please use the amazon search portal at the right - each purchase earns a small amount of advertising revenue **] Session 5 of the Archaeology of Gatherings Conference, Sligo, October 2013 < Part I | Part II | Part III | Part IV | Part VI > Sunday 27th October was overcast and there had been rain in the night. I will admit to having been ever so slightly hungover from the festivities the night before and welcomed the lashings of hot, sweet coffee I was plied with by the excellent folk at The Glasshouse . On the positive side, at least I knew where I was going this morning and didn’t manage to get lost on the 2km drive to Sligo Institute of Technology. Edvard Munch's By the Deathbed, 1895 ( Source ) The session ...

[** If you like this post, please make a donation to the IR&DD project using the secure button at the right. If you think it is interesting or useful, please re-share via Facebook, Google+, Twitter etc. To help keep the site in operation, please use the amazon search portal at the right - each purchase earns a small amount of advertising revenue **] And we’re back with Session 4 of the Archaeology of Gatherings Conference, Sligo, October 2013, chaired by Dr. Robert Hensey < Part I | Part II | Part III | Part V | Part VI >  TJ Westropp's drawing of the Turlough Hill enclosure ( Source ) Suitably refreshed, we began with Dr Stefan Bergh ( Dept of Archaeology, NUI Galway ) who delivered the paper: Meeting at the edge – Turlough Hill as a place of prehistoric assembly . Bergh argued that many sites were the foci of gatherings, such as megalithic tombs and the like. However, many gatherings would have been held at sites that leave no obvious traces, su...