stefan bergh

Lecturer 

Interaction between people, place and landscape in prehistory. 

Biography

Stefan Bergh is a graduate of University of Stockholm from which he received his PhD in 1995. The PhD research was focused on the Irish Passage Tomb Tradition, involving extensive fieldwork in mainly the west of Ireland. He worked for 10 years as an Archaeologist and later as a Senior Archaeologist with the  Bureau of Archaeological Excavations, National Heritage Board, Sweden. In 1998 a Post Doctoral Research Fellowship to explore the archaeology of Knocknarea Mountain, Co. Sligo, brought him back to Irish soil. Stefan joined the Department of Archaeology, NUI, Galway in 2001, where he is the Programme Director for the MA in Landscape Archaeology, and also teaches undergraduate courses in prehistoric archaeology. Stefan has initiated various archaeological projects focusing on upland archaeology in the west of Ireland, which in various forms have received substantial funding from The Heritage Council, the Royal Irish Academy and IRCHSS.

Office ARC215, Department of Archaeology, School of Geography and Archaeology, Arts/Science Building, NUI, Galway
Tel 091 492052
Fax 091 525700   
E-mail stefan.berghnuigalway.ie

Awards/Distinctions

• Post Doctoral Research Fellow, Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Education (1998-1999)
• Government of Ireland Research Fellow, IRCHSS Fellowships in the Humanities and Social Sciences 2000
• Government of Ireland Research Fellow, IRCHSS Fellowships in the Humanities and Social Sciences 2009 

Research

• Interaction between people and place
• Role of mountains in prehistory
• Megalithic monuments
• Upland settlements in prehistory
• Lithics technologies in prehistory

Current Writing Projects

• Knocknarea Mountain
• The Mullaghfarna Enclosures – an upland 'settlement’ in a passage tomb context
• Turlough Hill, Co. Clare: A prehistoric place apart
• AMS dating of antler/bone pin material from Carrowmore megaltihic complex, Co. Sligo (with Robert Hensey)

Professional Membership

Institute of Irish Archaeologists

Swedish Archaeological Society

Current Graduate Supervision

Ph.D.

• Andrew Whitefield.  (PhD3) Sustainable change: temporality and the Neolighic in Western Ireland. 
• Lynda McCormack. (PhD1). The Mechanics of Passage tomb Cemeteries: A study of spatial templates and the sequential development of the ritual arena at Loughcrew Co. Meath in the context of the Irish Passage Tomb tradition.
• Ed Danaher. (PhD1).  The Introduction of the early Neolithic and the concept of early Neolithic enclosure in the north west of Ireland. 
• Yolande O'Brien. (PhD1). Negotiating the Landscape: prehistoric and early medieval movement in a landscape of esker and bog

M.A. in Landscape Archaeology

• Seamus McGinley
• William McEvilly
• Ruairi Manktelow

Completed Gruauate Supervision

• Robert Hensey:(PhD - 2010). Ritual and belief in the Passage Tomb tradition of Ireland.  
• Noel McCarthy. (PhD - 2010). The Prehistoric Archaeology of Slieve Gamph: movement, place and patterns.
• Killian Driscoll (MLitt - 2006). The early Prehistory in the west of Ireland.  Investigations into the social archaeology of the Mesolithic, west of the Shannon, Ireland.

Welcoming Graduate research students in the following areas: 
          Monuments and landscape in prehistory
          Neolithic landscapes
          Prehistoric settlements
          Prehistoric archaeology

Teaching  

• AR113 Prehistoric Ireland and Europe
• AR225 Hunters and Farmers in Early Europe
• AR336 Europe in the Bronze Age
• AR344 Debating Irish Prehistory
• AR325 Minor Dissertation in Archaeology
• MA in Landscape Archaeology 

Administration

• Programme Director, MA in Landscape Archaeology
• Graduate Research Committee (Dept. of Archaeology)
• Equipment Committee (Dept. of Archaeology)
• GIS Co-ordinator (Dept. of Archaeology)
• Research Committee (School of Geography and Archaeology)
• Equipment, Laboratory & Fieldwork Committee (School of Geography and Archaeology)

External Responsibilities

• Committee member, Ministerial Expert Committee reviewing legislation, policy and practice in Irish Archaeology
• Committee member, County Sligo Heritage Forum – Archaeology Working Group

Publications

Books

• Forthcoming.  Knocknarea. The Archaeology of a mountain.
• 1995 Landscape of the monuments. A study of the passage tombs in the Cúil Irra region, Co. Sligo, Ireland. Stockholm: Riksantikvarieämbetet Arkeologiska Undersökningar

Books Edited

• 1996. Åkerlund, A., Bergh, S., Nordblad, J. & Taffinder, J.. Till Gunborg. Arkeologiska samtal. Stockholm Archaeologial Reports 33. Stockholm University

Other Publications

• 2009 Black is the Colour. Chert, concave scrapers and passage tombs. In Cooney, G., O’Connor, B., & Chapman, J. (eds), 2009. Materialitas: working stone, carving identity. Prehistoric Society Research Papers 3. Oxford: The Prehistoric Society and Oxbow Books, 105-112.
• 2002. Knocknarea - the ultimate monument. Megaliths and mountains in Neolithic Cúil Irra, north west Ireland. In C. Scarre (ed.) Monuments and Landscape in Atlantic Europe. Routledge
• 2002. Monuments of meaning. Role and symbolism of passage tombs in Cúil Irra, Co. Sligo. In Timoney M. (ed) A celebration of Sligo, first essays for Sligo Field Club, 65-72.

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