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 **] 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...

25th to 27th October 2013 Institute of Technology, Sligo This October bank holiday weekend will be an exciting one for Sligo as both the Archaeology of Gatherings Conference and the Sligo Live Music Festival are taking place. The Archaeology of Gatherings is a thematic international conference taking place at the Institute of Technology , Ash Lane, Sligo, Ireland, at the end of October. As 2013 is the year of ‘ The Gathering ’ in Ireland the theme was chosen to explore why people over millennia have come together for assemblies and social interactions of various forms. By bringing together a range of speakers from different disciplines, time periods, and countries, the conference aims to explore the material culture and psychology behind gatherings of people.  The conference papers examine a broad spectrum of aspects on the theme of gatherings. While some aim to interpret the archaeological evidence available to us from prehistoric through to more rec...