Encounters Between Peoples Proceedings of a Public Seminar on Archaeological Discoveries on National Road Schemes, August 2011

This monograph contains the proceedings of the NRA National Archaeology Seminar held in the City Wall Space, Wood Quay Venue, Dublin Civic Offices, on 25 August 2011. Encounters between Peoples contains seven papers by a number of archaeologists and a historian who were invited to address the multifaceted nature of our archaeological heritage and the varied peoples that contributed to its creation. In these proceedings we encounter early prehistoric farming communities in County Wexford, Iron Age assembly and ritual in County Meath and the diverse peoples who inhabited a County Tipperary townland over six millennia. Encounters between Peoples also presents material evidence for interactions between communities of differing religion and ethnicity during the historic period.