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Sling Defence of Iron Age Hillforts (Read 48699 times)
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Here's an attempt to show you my presentation from the conference at Liverpool last autumn. I hope it's not too boring. My commentary is a bit quiet, so you may have to turn the volume up.
If it works, please don't post it elsewhere, as I haven't yet got permissions from all the publishers whose agreement I will need to make a formal paper from it.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/qty94v6dk3as5it/The%20Defence%20of%20Iron%20Age%20Hill...
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Reply #181 -
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oh yeah sorry about that - converting your video into a streaming version is still on my todo list.
Is it just me or is this year going by too bloody fast ?
Anyway your dropbox version seesm to work - maybe you could disable the download part ? As it streams okay.
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Turns out Dropbox only streams 15 minutes of video. So use the link above to see the start of the presentation, and this one to see the remainder of it:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/7aje94q8piy8qt7/The%20Defence%20of%20Iron%20Age%20Hill...
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Just noticed a Freudian slip: in the narration I refer to work by "Cynthia Payne" when I meant "Cynthia Poole"!
Quite a difference! (Non-Brits may need to Google Cynthia Payne to see why this is embarrassing.)
My sincere apologies to Ms Poole.
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I'd say you definitely boobed there!
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It's the whiplash effect
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Reply #186 -
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That really doesn't show an overwhelming advantage to the defenders, considering the massive amount of labor required to construct a hill fort.
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Yep... that is a pretty freaking embarrasing error.
lol
I honestly think slinging up is easier than slinging down.
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Reply #188 -
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I know it's been a long time, but my "book" has finally been published by Archaeopress. It's 90% the same as my dissertation, but in black-and-white. Details are at
http://archaeopress.com/ArchaeopressShop/Public/displayProductDetail.asp?id=%7b8...
. It came out in July.
The contributions of C_A, David M and Slinging.org are of course acknowledged.
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Excellent!
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a free copy would be appreciated
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I have a couple of copies, but I'm really saving them for people who will actually read it (only archaeology students, I'd think . . .) But no argument that you "earned" one. Let me see how they go. Pete
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cheeky sod - I'd read it
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Wasn't trying to imply that you don't read; merely that it's a rather narrow topic unless you're studying Iron Age stuff. (Of course, there is slinging info in there but you already know all that, and it's too late to tell me which bits I got wrong!) And it's summarised a couple of times above here.
However, you definitely earned it, so as you want a copy, I'll put one in the mail to you. Send me the address in a message or email to be sure I get it right.
But . . . there will be a test!
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lol I sat through the multimedia lecture version, I've even subjected poor innocent people to it, I figure I can read the book
Plus might be stuff in there I don't know.
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