NUIG Post-graduate Archaeological Theory Reading Group

NUIG Post-graduate Archaeological Theory Reading Group Archaeological Theory We meet most weeks to discuss a paper proposed by one of the members. The only pre-requisite for a paper is its length.

The NUI Galway Archaeological Theory Reading Group was initiated at the start of the 2010 academic year with the purpose of creating an informal forum to discuss archaeological theory. We aim to encourage ourselves to think critically about interpretation, whether explicit or unexplicit, intentional or unintentional and in turn improve our own theoretical approaches. Our discussions normally centre on the theoretical underpinning of the chosen paper and our views on the validity of the approach therein. We do not have a chair but each meeting is loosely structured, with an introduction to the paper and author, by the person who chose the paper, followed by discussion of our opinions of its faults and merits. Our choice of paper is not limited to explicitly theoretical or archaeological studies, but can include andy paper a member feels is relevant. Since we meet often, and are all working on our own projects, we try to choose relatively short papers. To propose a paper one must be in attendance, normally the person who least recently had the opportunity is afforded that privilege. The blog is updated shortly after each meeting, with a summary of and our views on the paper we discussed. We welcome comments and further discussion on any of the papers. While we cannot (for copyright reasons) post pdfs of the papers, we will post the full references. If you do not have access to these through a University, perhaps someone you know does…

23/01/2016

Hi everyone! The AYIA conference is being hosted by UCC this year on the 12th and 13th of March. There will be €100 prize for the best talk.

06/06/2015

The Irish Fieldschool of Prehistoric Archaeology Stripping the sod and waiting for the sun!

08/05/2015

We are delighted to announce that Dr Eoin Grogan of NUI Maynooth will be giving a lecture as part of our summer series. His talk is entitled 'Irish Bronze Age pottery with a focus on the material from wedge tombs'. It will be on at 7pm, Tuesday 14th July, in St Patrick's hall, Corofin, County Clare. The image below is of some Early Bronze Age pottery from The Mound of the Hostages at Tara (O'Sullivan 2005); this and more Irish Bronze Age pottery can be seen in the National Museum of Ireland, Kildare St, Dublin.

03/05/2015

Our academic director and author of easily the best book on the archaeology of the Burren, The Burren and the Aran Islands - Exploring the Archaeology, Dr Carleton Jones will be giving a talk as part of our summer lecture series. His talk is entitled 'Regional traditions and distant events in the 4th millennium BC – Parknabinnia (Killinaboy) and other atypical court tombs in north Munster'. It will be on at 7pm, Tuesday 7th July, in St Patrick's hall, Corofin, County Clare. The image below is from his excavation of the court tomb on Roughan Hill - not far from where we will be digging the wedge tomb. I think that is a theodolite in the photo, how many of you remember using them?

02/05/2015

We are delighted to announce that Dr Marion Dowd of IT Sligo will be the opening speaker our summer lecture series. Her talk is entitled 'Seeking darkness: the Bronze Age ritual use of caves in the Burren'. It will be on at 7pm, Tuesday 2nd June, in St Patrick's hall, Corofin, County Clare. The beautiful image below is of Glencurran cave, where Marion carried out some excavation; the photo was taken by and is copyrighted to Ken Williams (http://www.shadowsandstone.com/)

30/04/2015

The Chalcolithic wedge tombs of Ireland represent a dramatic re-emergence of megalithism over a millenium after most Neolithic megaliths were build and many centuries after most had gone out of use. This resurgence of building monuments associated

As part of our summer lecture series: Mary Cahill curator of the National Museum's prehistoric collections will be givin...
30/04/2015

As part of our summer lecture series: Mary Cahill curator of the National Museum's prehistoric collections will be giving a lecture on 'Here comes the sun: solar imagery and gold in Early Bronze Age Ireland' at 7pm Tuesday 16th June in St Patrick's hall, Corofin, Co. County Clare.

09/01/2015
18/06/2013

Welcome to HARTS & Minds, the postgraduate journal of Humanities and Arts. HARTS is an amalgamation of Humanities and Arts. The name reflects the inter-disciplinary nature of our journal.

It was mostly theory but also a little fun at the Prehistoric society last weekend
17/06/2013

It was mostly theory but also a little fun at the Prehistoric society last weekend

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