Miscellaneous: beards, book reviews, obituaries

Beards

Dowd, M. 2010. Beards: an archaeological and historical overview. In: G. Cooney, K.M. Davies and U. Mac Conville (eds.) A Glorious Gallimaufry: a Collection of Interesting Things in Honour of Nick Maxwell, 38–42. Wordwell, Wicklow. Read here

Dowd, M. 2020. The hairy history of beards. RTÉ Brainstorm. Available at: The hairy history of beards

Archaeology at IT Sligo

Dowd, M., Beglane, F., Bonsall, J., Markley, S., Moore, S. and Read, C. 2020. The past in the present: archaeology at IT Sligo. In: J. Foran (ed.) Of What is Past, or Passing, or to Come. Institute of Technology, Sligo: Fifty Years, 122–129. Institute of Technology Sligo, Sligo. Read here

Book reviews

Dowd, M. 2019. Review of ‘Neolithic Cave Burials: Agency, Structure and Environment’, by Rick Peterson, 2019. The Prehistoric Society. Read here

Dowd, M. 2014. Review of ‘Sacred Darkness: a Global Perspective on the Ritual Use of Caves’, edited by Holley Moyes, 2013. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 24(3), 547–550. Read here

Dowd, M. 2014. Review of ‘Caves in Context: the Cultural Significance of Caves and Rockshelters in Europe’, edited by Knut Andreas Bergsvik and Robin Skeates, 2012 European Journal of Archaeology 17(2), 354–358. Read here

Obituaries

Dowd, M. 2018. Obituary: Peter C. Woodman (2 July 1943–24 January 2017). Ulster Journal of Archaeology 73, v–vii. Read here

Dowd, M. 2017. Obituary: Peter Woodman. IAI News: the Newsletter of the Institute of Archaeologists of Ireland 16, 4. Read here

Barry, P. and Dowd, M. 2013. Obituary: Dónal Gilhoys (1920–25 February 2012). Irish Speleology 20, 53. Read here