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Reply #180 - Feb 26th, 2014 at 7:47am
 
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 - Feb 27th, 2014 at 4:17am
 
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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Reply #182 - Feb 27th, 2014 at 6:25pm
 
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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Reply #183 - Feb 27th, 2014 at 6:40pm
 
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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Reply #184 - Mar 7th, 2014 at 12:44pm
 

I'd say you definitely boobed there!  Grin
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Reply #185 - Mar 12th, 2014 at 6:25am
 
It's the whiplash effect  Grin
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Reply #186 - Mar 12th, 2014 at 10:05am
 
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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Reply #187 - Mar 13th, 2014 at 5:48pm
 
Yep... that is a pretty freaking embarrasing error.
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I honestly think slinging up is easier than slinging down.
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Reply #188 - Aug 24th, 2016 at 5:41am
 
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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Reply #189 - Aug 25th, 2016 at 3:26am
 
Excellent!
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Reply #190 - Aug 25th, 2016 at 5:42am
 
a free copy would be appreciated Smiley
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Reply #191 - Aug 30th, 2016 at 6:38am
 
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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Reply #192 - Aug 30th, 2016 at 6:39am
 
cheeky sod - I'd read it Smiley
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Reply #193 - Aug 30th, 2016 at 6:57am
 
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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Reply #194 - Aug 30th, 2016 at 10:45am
 
lol I sat through the multimedia lecture version, I've even subjected poor innocent people to it, I figure I can read the book Smiley

Plus might be stuff in there I don't know.

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