Carleton jones

Lecturer 

Studying the development of prehistoric societies and their interactions with landscapes

Biography

Carleton Jones received his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 1997 with a study of prehistoric landscapes in Ireland. After receiving his Ph.D. he directed Burren Archaeology Research, an organisation set up to facilitate the continuation of research on Roughan Hill, a remarkably preserved prehistoric landscape on the Burren in Co. Clare. The fieldwork component of the Roughan Hill landscape project ran from 1994 to 2001 and involved a combination of survey and excavation. In addition to support provided by Burren Archaeology Research, the project received grants from The Heritage Council and the Royal Irish Academy. The project is now in the writing-up stage.

  
Office ARC209, Department of Archaeology, School of Geography and Archaeology, Arts/Science Building, NUI, Galway.
Tel 091 492303
Fax 091 525700   
E-mail carleton.jonesnuigalway.ie

Research

• The development of societies
• Neolithic and Bronze Age landscapes
• The Beaker and Early Bronze Age periods in Ireland
• The roles and landscape settings of megalithic tombs
• Regionality in prehistoric Ireland
• The prehistoric archaeology of the Burren

Current Writing Projects

• Roughan Hill and the Beaker/Early Bronze Age landscape of northwest Munster. This forthcoming monograph details the results of my excavations and surveys on Roughan Hill from 1994 onwards and puts the findings in a wider context.
• Excavation of the Cl. 153 chambered tomb on Roughan Hill (Parknabinnia), Co. Clare.
• Excavations at Horse Island.      

Current Graduate Supervision

PhD

• Michael Grealy: Geophysical analysis of Irish henges.  

M.Litt.

• Olive Carey: Coolnatullagh – A Final Neolithic/Early Bronze Age Secular and Ritual Landscape in the Eastern Burren.
• Clare Hennigar: The Late Bronze Age Settlement Landscape of the Burren.
• Joanna Nolan: A typochronological and functional analysis of Irish Neolithic and Bronze Age lithic assemblages.

MA in Landscape Archaeology

• Lynda McCormack: A comparative and multi-period analysis of Loughcrew, Co. Meath: A landscape of the living.
• Cian Scollard: A landscape study of hillforts in Co. Galway.

Now accepting post-graduate students in all aspects of Irish prehistory.

Teaching

• AR238 Archaeological Methodology (2BA)
• AR334 Ancient Civilizations - The Rise of Complex Societies (2BA)
• AR336 Europe in the Bronze Age (3BA)
• AR344 Debating Irish Prehistory (3BA)
• AR325 Minor Dissertation (3BA)
• MA in Landscape Archaeology: constructing research designs; phenomenology; writing archaeology
• SU 402 The Archaeological Heritage of Ireland (Irish Studies Summer School)

Administration

• Visiting Student Liaison Officer
• Erasmus coordinator
• Open Day Management
• First Year Examination Officer
• Department Consultation Day
• Teaching Schedule Committee
• First and Second Year Curriculum Committee
  

External Responsibilities

Community Outreach Activities

• Patron of the Burrenbeo Trust, a registered charity dedicated to the sustainable management of the Burren landscape.
• Burren Landscape and Settlement Conference - December 2008 - Organised (with help) a one-day conference in Ballyvaughan which presented the results of the Burren Landscape and Settlement project to a wide audience (open to the public).
• Community Talks - talks to various groups including: the Burren Life Project (National Parks and Wildlife Service, Teagasc, and the Burren Irish Farmers Association), schools, local societies, and museums.

• Community Excavation - July 2006 - In co-operation with the County Clare Monuments Advisor. A small excavation on Horse Island which had as one of its aims the raising of the profile of archaeology in the local community.

Professional Contributions

• Co-Principal Investigator for the Burren Landscape and Settlement Project (Heritage Council INSTAR funded) (April 2008 – Dec. 2008)
• Committee for Archaeology of the Royal Irish Academy - Feb. 2008 to present.
• Journal of Irish Archaeology - Nov. 2008 to present - occasional anonymous referee.
• NUI Interview Panel - Nov. 2008 - Member of interview panel awarding the NUI Centennial Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Irish Studies.
• Editor of Western Stone Forts Project publication - The Discovery Programme (Nov. 2006 - Nov. 2007)

Publications

Books: Sole Author

• forthcoming. Roughan Hill and the Beaker/Early Bronze Age landscape of northwest Munster.
• 2007 Temples of Stone - Exploring the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Cork: The Collins Press.
• 2004 The Burren and the Aran Islands - Exploring the Archaeology. Cork: The Collins Press.

Books & Journal Volumes: Editor

• Cotter, C. forthcoming. The Western Stone Fort Project, Vol. 1 Excavations at Dún Aonghasa and Dún Eoghanachta (edited by C. Jones). Discovery Programme Monograph.
• Jones, C. and C. Hayden (eds.) 1998 The Archaeology of Perception and the Senses. Archaeological Review from Cambridge 15(1).

Articles & Chapters: Sole Author

• (In press) Coasts, mountains, rivers and bogs.  Using the landscape to explore regionality in Ireland.  In Brophy, K. and G. Barclay (eds.) Defining a Regional Neolithic: Evidence from Britain and Ireland. Oxford: Oxbow.
• 2003 Neolithic beginnings on Roughan Hill and the Burren.  In Armit, I. et. al. (eds.)  Neolithic Settlement in Ireland and Western Britain. Oxford: Oxbow.
• 2002 Selection of Axeheads, A Selection of Spearheads, A Selection of Arrowheads, Axe Mould, Two Daggers. In H. Armitage (ed.) The Hunt Museum Essential Guide. London: Scala Publishers Ltd.
• 1998 The Discovery and Dating of the Prehistoric Landscape of Roughan Hill in Co. Clare.  The Journal of Irish Archaeology 9.
• 1998 Interpreting the Perceptions of Past People.  In Jones, C. and Hayden, C. (eds.) ’The Archaeology of Perception and the Senses’ Archaeological Review from Cambridge 15(1).

Articles: Co-authored (lead author)

• Jones, C. and J. Kenny forthcoming. Excavation of the Cl 153 chambered tomb on Roughan Hill (Parknabinnia), Co. Clare.
• Jones, C. and P. Walsh 1996 New Discoveries on Roughan Hill.   Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 126.

Articles: Co-authored (2nd author)

• Lynch, M. and C. Jones forthcoming. Excavations at Horse Island.

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