Robert M Chapple, Archaeologist

Ready for another quick sprint through the wild world of freely available PDF papers on Irish archaeology (and related goings on)? Of course you are! Here are my latest picks: Philip Macdonald: Geophysical Survey and Excavation at the Mound of Down, County Down 2012 Art J. Hughes: Late Old Irish lenition and the modern Gaelic Verb Peter J. Smith: Politics and Land in Early Ireland: A Poem by Eochaid Úa Flainn – Éitset áes ecna aíbind Iwan Wmffre: The Qualities and the Origins of The Welsh Vowel [ɨː] Grigory Bondarenko: Studies in Irish Mythology Benjamin W. Roberts & Miljana Radivojević: Invention as a Process: Pyrotechnologies in Early Societies Damian Shiels: Limerick and the American Civil War (PowerPoint Presentation) Aidan O’Sullivan & Tríona Nicholl: Early Medieval Settlement Enclosures In Ireland: Dwellings, Daily Life and Social Identity Aidan O'Sullivan: The Social and Ideological Role of Crannogs in Early Medieval Irela...

I am delighted to introduce the first entrant to the  The 2014 Bob Chapple Archaeological Essay Prize in association with Wordwell Books. Stephen Domican's paper Archaeogenetics: future potential and challenges  describes his current research and will shortly be appearing in Trowel magazine (Domican, S. (2014) 'Archaeogenetics: future potential and challenges', Trowel , 15, pp. TBC.). If you would like to enter, please check out the criteria at the end of the post: here . Robert M Chapple *           *           * Archaeogenetics: future potential and challenges Stephen Domican Recent developments in the field of genetics, especially next generation sequencing technologies, has set the stage for archaeogenetic research - that is the study of the ancient past using genetic data (Renfrew, 2001) - to become as revolutionary a methodology in archaeological research as the development of radiocarbon datin...