D. Blair Gibson is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at El Camino College and the director of the college's Anthropology Museum. He has published articles in a number of journals, including the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology and the Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium. He is the editor of two books, Tribe and Polity in Late Prehistoric Europe (with Michael Geselowitz) and Celtic Chiefdom, Celtic State (with Bettina Arnold).
1. Theoretical considerations
2. The climate and geology of Clare
3. Clare's chiefdoms at the dawn of history
4. An early medieval chiefdom of northern Clare
5. Reconstructing the social order of Irish chiefdoms through settlement
6. Of settlements and boundaries: reconstructing the chiefdom of Tulach Commáin
7. The rulers of Tulach Commáin
8. The world of Brian Boroimhe
9. The world of Caithrém Thoirdhealbhaigh
10. The political topography of late medieval Clare
11. An overview of the social and political systems of Thomond.
