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Filling in the spaces in Irish prehistory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

P. C. Woodman
P. C. Woodman*
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Department of Archaeology, University College Cork, Ireland
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In this paper the Professor of Archaeology at University College Cork has undertaken a radical re-evaluation of the traditional paradigms of Irish prehistory, which were formed in the 1940s. He makes full use of the results of recent pipeline excavations and radiocarbon dates to show that early settlement in Ireland need not always be associated with monument or artefact types belonging to narrow chronological horizons.

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Antiquity , Volume 66 , Issue 251 , June 1992 , pp. 295 - 314
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1992

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