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Beyond the martial façade: gender, heritage and medieval castles
(Taylor & Francis, 2019-07-02)
Gendered interpretations are rare both within castle-studies and heritage discourses on medieval castles. Yet, castles hold potential to inform multi-vocal accounts of the medieval past and to inspire meaningful heritage ...
Aran Islands, western Ireland: farming history and environmental change reconstructed from field surveys, historical sources, and pollen analyses
(Eagle Hill Institute, 2019)
The Aran Islands are exceptional cultural landscapes at the Atlantic fringe of Europe. They are strongly influenced
by human settlement and small-scale farming that is still pursued according to traditional practices. ...
Gender and medieval archaeology: storming the castle
(Cambridge University Press, 2019-06-17)
Despite more than three decades of feminist critique, archaeological scholarship remains predominantly focused on the exploration of patriarchal narratives and is, therefore, complicit in reinforcing structural inequalities. ...
Book Review: The invention of race in the European Middle Ages
(Taylor & Francis, 2019-06-18)
[No abstract available]
In search of the lost 'cromlech' of Knowth: Geophysical investigations in Area 10 of the Knowth Passage Tomb cemetery, Brú na Bóinne, Co. Meath.
(Meath Archaeological and Historical Society, 2019)
The passage tomb cemetery of Knowth (Fig. 1) is part of the UNESCO Brú na
Bóinne World Heritage Site, Co. Meath. It forms an integral and important
component of what was once a great prehistoric numinous precinct
embraced ...
A3.6 Holocene vegetation history of SW Connemara, Co. Galway with particular reference to Carna and Roundstone
(Irish Quaternary Association, 2019)
Conclusions
A 14C-dated pollen profile from Loch an Chorcail, southern Carna peninsula provides a detailed record of vegetation and land-use change that spans most of the Holocene.
Pine (P. sylvestris, i.e. Scots pine), ...
Ring(s) of truth: responses regarding curious ring-marks at Dowth
(Wordwell, 2019)
Joe Fenwick shares some responses to his question regarding curious ring-marks at Dowth.