Robert M Chapple, Archaeologist

[If you like what I write, please consider throwing something in the Tip Jar on the right of the page. Alternatively, using The Reading Room portals for shopping on Amazon brings in some advertising revenue and costs you nothing] You can skip to the Visualisation embedded at the end of this post, or go directly to my page on the Tableau Public server [ here ] Introduction As many readers of this blog will be aware (probably painfully), I spend much of my free time on a research project that’s all about collecting radiocarbon determinations and dendrochronological dates. The last publicly released version of the catalogue was in September 2013 (though the most current version has always been freely available to researchers who contact me directly). Back then the catalogue boasted 7015 radiocarbon dates and 260 dendrochronological ones. As of December 2015, the catalogue now holds 8288 radiocarbon and 313 dendro dates. As headline figures go, that’s not bad – respective in

Ready for another quick sprint through the wild world of freely available PDF papers on Irish archaeology (and related goings on)? Of course you are! Here are my latest picks: Philip Macdonald: Geophysical Survey and Excavation at the Mound of Down, County Down 2012 Art J. Hughes: Late Old Irish lenition and the modern Gaelic Verb Peter J. Smith: Politics and Land in Early Ireland: A Poem by Eochaid Úa Flainn – Éitset áes ecna aíbind Iwan Wmffre: The Qualities and the Origins of The Welsh Vowel [ɨː] Grigory Bondarenko: Studies in Irish Mythology Benjamin W. Roberts & Miljana Radivojević: Invention as a Process: Pyrotechnologies in Early Societies Damian Shiels: Limerick and the American Civil War (PowerPoint Presentation) Aidan O’Sullivan & Tríona Nicholl: Early Medieval Settlement Enclosures In Ireland: Dwellings, Daily Life and Social Identity Aidan O'Sullivan: The Social and Ideological Role of Crannogs in Early Medieval Irela

[** 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 **] On Friday the 6th of June 2014, I wandered along to the Pat Collins Reading Room at Waterman House, Hill St., Belfast to listen to the magnificent Dr Rowan McLaughlin speak about prehistory in Ulster. Specifically, he was intent on tackling the impact that data from excavations in the last decade-and-a-half have had on our understanding of prehistory in Ulster and Ireland generally. The MRB have been running a pretty excellent lecture series over the last while and have a full schedule of speakers lined up until the end of 2014 ( here ). I’ve not been to any of these before, but I felt that I wanted to make a special effort for th