Archaeology in Social Media | Academia.edu Chronicles 08

I've been having a read through what I feel is some of the most interesting archaeology-related stuff available on the Academia.edu site ... as always, it's mostly Irish material, with a sprinkling of other things that caught my eye ... I suggest that you have a look, have a read, consider signing up to Academia.edu for a free account and even come follow me & read some of my writing [here]

 Karina Grömer: Efficiency and technique – Experiments with original spindle whorls

Eamonn Kelly & Nessa O'Connor: Early Bronze Age Graves: 3:44 Rathcahill West, Co. Limerick, E1113

Catriona McKenzie: Health in medieval Ireland: the evidence from Ballyhanna, Co. Donegal

Colm J Donnelly & Eileen Murphy: The origins of cilliní in Ireland

Hilary Cool, Howard Mason, & Philip Macdonald: Excavations on the Defences of Caerleon Legionary Fortress in 1982

Philip Macdonald: A New Survey of Templecormick, Audleystown, County Down
Philip Macdonald: Dundrum Castle, County Down: An Overview and Excavation Report

Dolores Kearney: A tale of the Wexford Knight Templars and their medieval settlements at Kilcloggan and Templetown, Hook Head, Co Wexford

Teresa Bolger: Rethinking Irish Archaeology: Old Ground, New Ideas. A summary report of the proceedings of the IAI Autumn Conference 2007

Rick Schulting, Alison Sheridan, Rebecca Crozier, & Eileen Murphy: Revisiting Quanterness: new AMS dates and stable isotope data from an Orcadian chamber tomb

Thomas Kador: The last of the old: a homogeneous later mesolithic Ireland?

Ian Armit, Graeme T. Swindles, Katharina Becker, Gill Plunkett, & Maarten Blaauw: Rapid climate change did not cause population collapse at the end of the European Bronze Age

Heinrich Härke: Grave goods in early medieval burials: messages and meanings

Ros Ó Maolduin: The people behind the pots: considering the Early Bronze Age remains from French Furze, Tully East, Co. Kildare

Marion A. Dowd, Linda G. Lynch, & Margaret McCarthy: Recent archaeological discoveries in Dunmore Cave, County Kilkenny: further questions regarding Viking activity at the site

Bernhard Weninger, Kevan Edinborough, Marcel Bradtmöller, Mark Collard, Philippe Crombé, Uwe Danzeglocke, Daniela Holst, Olafjöris, Marcel Niekus, Stephen Shennan, & Rick Schulting: A Radiocarbon Database for the Mesolithic and Early Neolithic In Northwest Europe

Robin Bendrey, Nick Thorpe, Alan Outram, & Louise H. Van Wijngaarden-Bakker: The Origins of Domestic Horses in North-west Europe: new Direct Dates on the Horses of Newgrange, Ireland

Aidan O’Sullivan, Mark Powers, John Murphy, Niall Inwood, Bernard Gilhooly, Niamh Kelly, Wayne Malone, John Mulrooney, Cian Corrigan, Maeve L’Estrange, Antoinette Burke, Maria Kazuro, Conor McDermott, Graeme Warren, Brendan O’Neill, Mark Heffernan & Mairead Sweeney: Experimental Archaeology: making; understanding; story-telling

Robin Bendrey: Animal Paleopathology

Clare Downham: Viking Ethnicities: A historiographic overview
Clare Downham: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Portrayals of Vikings in “The Fragmentary Annals of Ireland"

Michael King: Christ's Entry into Jerusalem on the northern High Crosses

Mark Gardiner: The distribution and adoption of the byre-house (longhouse) in late medieval Britain

Ian Riddler & Nicola Trzaska-Nartowski: Chanting on a Dunghill: Working Skeletal Materials in Anglo-Saxon England
Ian Riddler & Nicola Trzaska-Nartowski: Notes to Chanting on a Dunghill

Killian Driscoll, Jonas Alcaina, Natàlia Égüez, Xavier Mangado, Josep-Maria Fullola, & José-Miguel Tejero: Trampled under foot: A quartz and chert human trampling experiment at the Cova del Parco rock shelter, Spain


Elizabeth Shee-Twohig & Ken Williams: Irish Open-Air Rock-Art: issues of Erosion and Management
Location: Belfast, Belfast, UK

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