(Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 1975)
Department of Anthropology faculty representative, BSU Ancient Studies Program
Dr. Hicks also has a webpage.
Research areas: Late Neolithic through Iron Age Ireland; the pre-Christian religion of Ireland as revealed through archaeological, literary, and folkloristic evidence, and its relationship to the landscape and agricultural cycle.
Selected Publications:
Hicks, Ronald 2011 The Sacred Landscape of Ancient Ireland. Archaeology 64(3):40-45.
Hicks, Ronald 2009a Place and Time in the Tána. In Ulidia 2: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on the Ulster Cycle of Tales, edited by Ruairí Ó hUiginn & Brian Ó Catháin, pp. 296-312. Maigh Nuad (Maynooth): An Sagart.
Hicks, Ronald 2009b Cosmography in Tochmarc Étaíne. Journal of Indo-European Studies 37:115-129.
Hicks, Ronald 2009c Some Correlations between Henge Enclosures and Oenach Sites. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 139:35-44. [Published July 2011.]
Hicks, Ronald 2007 Dún Ailinne's Role in Folklore, Myth, and the Sacred Landscape. In Dún Ailinne: Excavations at an Irish Royal Site 1968-1975, edited by Bernard Wailes & Susan Johnston, pp. 183-194. Philadelphia: University Museum.
Hicks, Ronald 2005 Astronomy and the Sacred Landscape in Irish Myth. In The Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomena, edited by Nicholas Campion, pp. 121-134. Bristol: Culture & Cosmos/Cinnabar Books.
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