Robert M Chapple, Archaeologist

Books ( Source ) Greetings one and all! Welcome to my 16th (and long overdue) ramble through my selection of the most interesting and exciting of the archaeology and history papers on the Academia.edu site. But first (and it will only take a moment) please divert your attention to Stuart Rathbone’s fantastic book: Archaeological Boundaries. Discussions, Experiments and Unprovoked Attacks . It’s published on the Leanpub platform and, while there is a suggested pricing, you can have it for free! I stand by my earlier claims that it the among the most significant books on Irish archaeology ever published and positions Stuart as among the most interesting and innovative thinkers in the field. Go on! You know you want to! If that’s not enough for you, come peruse my selection of freely available papers from Academia.edu: Marcus J Vandergoes, Maarten Blaauw et al .: A revised age for the Kawakawa/Oruanui tephra, a key marker for the Last Glacial Maximum in New ...

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[** 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 **] Sixty Three Thousand Euros ... or Twelve and a Half pence in old money Stuart Rathbone Godwin's law asserts that "a s an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1" . Although this isn't strictly correct it does neatly highlight how quickly internet discussions can become bad tempered, irrational and vitriolic. Any follower of online archaeological discussion groups will know that one subject that almost always goes off the deep end at an alarming speed is the topic of metal detection. After partaking in several such discussions recently my g...