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 **] I present the concluding segment of an epic trawl through an excellent conference! < Part I | Part II | Part III | Part IV | Part V Parker Pearson in Sligo © Chapple Collection The final session of the Archaeology of Gatherings Conference was chaired by Fiona Beglane, who welcomed  Prof. Mike Parker Pearson  ( Institute of Archaeology, University College London ). Like many in archaeology, I only know him through his published works and television appearances. On TV, I’ve heard him speak and seen him wander about half of Salisbury plain. He is a respected authority on all things  Stonehenge  a...

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...