Foragers, Farmers and Fishers in a Coastal Landscape: An Intercultural Archaelogical Survey of the Shannon Estuary, 1992-7
People have been living by Ireland’s coast since earliest times, but archaeologists are only now only begetting to explore its potential. The Discovery Programme publishes in this monograph the results of the North Munster Project’s pioneering intertidal archaeological survey in south-west Ireland. The Shannon estuary is introduced in a multidisciplinary chapter that uses archaeology, history, folklore, cartographic sources and placename studies to explore its role in the region’s history. The geology, soils, hydrography and paleoenvironmental deposits of the estuary are then described
(Dublin, Royal Irish Academy for the Discovery Programme 2001), 345 ++
