Robert M Chapple, Archaeologist

Books ( Source ) Greetings dear reader and welcome, once again, to my personal trawl through the archaeological (mostly Irish) papers on Academia.edu. Before we begin, please take a moment to check out Stuart Rathbone’s rather excellent new book Archaeological Boundaries. Discussions, Experiments and Unprovoked Attacks . While you can download it for free from the Leanpub site, it’d be lovely if you felt moved to contribute a few pounds/euros/dollars … whatever you’ve got! Anyway, here’s my latest list of ‘what’s good to read’ – enjoy! Philip Macdonald Archaeological Excavation at Inisloughlin, County Antrim: Identifying the Gaelic Fort of 'Enishlanghen' Stephen Cameron, Philip Macdonald, & Brian Sloan Two Assemblages of Worked Flint from Linford, County Antrim Spencer Carter Lithics Report | Analysis of a lithic find from Weaverthorpe, North Yorkshire, for East Riding Archaeology Michelle Comber Trade and Communication Networks in Earl...

[Don't want to read my waffle & just want to get to the Viz? You'll find it here  or you can just scroll to the end of this post] Some time ago I completed a vizualisation of the human expenditure in the First World War (1914-1918) . It was a pretty satisfying experience that allowed me to deepen and broaden my own understanding of the period and the finished product will, I hope, allow others to do the same. I was casting about for another similar undertaking, both as a means of enhance my skills with the Tableau application and act as a training platform before I undertook a larger data vizualisation project based on my IR&DD Catalogue of Irish radiocarbon dates (operational Functional Test available: here ). Over the last while, my long dormant interest in the American Civil War has been revived and revitalised by a Damian Shiels’ rather wonderful work   on the Irish involvement in the conflict [ Blog | Facebook | Book ]. As the blurb on his book states, with...