Ronald Hicks

My research, focusing on landscape and cognitive archaeology, is concerned with the nature of the pre-Christian religion of Ireland and the way this is expressed in myth and on the landscape in sacred sites.  Basic to my work is the assumption that the religion bore a close relationship to, and was reflective of, the way of life of the ancient Irish, which was dominantly transhumant pastoralism. Thus one would expect both the mythology and traces of the religion on the landscape to be concerned with the annual agricultural cycle (e.g., through site orientation).
Address: Dept. of Anthropology
Ball State University
Muncie, IN 47306