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Carleton Jones 

Editorial.

Alison Sheridan and Gabriel Cooney 

The Boyne to Brodgar initiative: understanding—and preserving, presenting and raising awareness of—Neolithic monuments and the people who built and used them in Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man. 

Ann Lynch (with contributions by F. McCormick, E. Shee Twohig, M. McClatchie, K. Molloy, R. Schulting, E. OCarroll and F. Sternke) 

Newgrange revisited: new insights from excavations at the back of the mound in 1984–8 

Thomas Kador, Linda Fibiger, Gabriel Cooney and Paul Fullagar

Movement and diet in early Irish prehistory: first evidence from multi-isotope analysis

Rose M. Cleary and Alan Hawkes (with a contribution by Ellen OCarroll)

Munster ring-ditches, fulachtaí fia and the excavations at Carrigtohill, Co. Cork

Katherine Leonard

Birds of the Otherworld: sacral symbolism and the Dunaverney flesh-hook

Richard Warner

The gold ornaments from Rathgall: the analytical evidence for their date and the sources of their gold

Maeve Tobin and Faith Bailey

Burials and boundaries at Britonstown, Co. Wicklow

Patrick Gleeson

Assembly and élite culture in Iron Age and late Antique Europe: a case-study of Óenach Clochair, Co. Limerick

Linda G. Lynch

Death and burial in the Poor Law Union workhouses in Ireland

REVIEW ARTICLE

Carleton Jones

Bronze Age studies in Europe today 

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