Our ARCH10170: Making the Past first year archaeology students at UCD School of Archaeology engaging with “fabric” as a concept:
And is there anything more fundamental to our humanity as cloth and clothes? Dr Anita Radini and Lucy Robinson on spinning and cordage
Our ARCH10170: Making the Past first year archaeology students at UCD School of Archaeology engaging with “fabric” as a concept: clay, sand, water, hair, wool, spinning, weaving, pottery making @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social
Making early medieval souterrain ware pots at our First Year Archaeology module ARCH10170: Making the Past - quality work
#EarlyMedievalPeopleAndThings
Original ironworking activities now being excavated by our MSc students at UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture would have looked a little like this 🙂
Our MSc students digging our own ironsmelting and charcoal production site. Despite only dating from 5-6 years ago, the features are even now subtle - cattle trample, human activities, the passage of a plough in the past would wipe out most of this archaeology, useful learning for our students.
UCD’s early medieval roundhouse under construction (thatching in progress here) at University College Dublin’s Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture (CEAMC)
Come study for MSc, Graduate Diploma or online Grad Cert with us!
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We offer an MSc, or Graduate Diploma (both on-campus) or Graduate Certificate (online, Distance Learning) in Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture programmes.
Lots of seminars, workshops, practicals every Friday or also options - if online -to travel to Ireland for a week’s crafts & making
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ARCH41270: Archaeological Field Methods students digging at CEAMC
Investigating an experimental iron production site (charcoal pit, smelting furnace, slag and debris) and the final stages of a Bronze Age wooden figures experiment (see below video for that project)
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We’re teaching experimental archaeology and archaeological excavation skills this next two weeks at @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social
Popped into our early medieval roundhouse
Makes you think of the thinginess of things, but especially the overwhelming woodiness of the past
🪲 Exploring Past Living Conditions Through Analysis of Archaeological Insects 🐞
For 'International Women and Girls in Science Day' Katie Wyse Jackson, MLitt student, discusses her research exploring what insect remains can tell us about living at Vindolanda Roman fort.
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“Changing the Landscape of Archaeological Publishing”
📚 Congratulations to Dr Jess Beck, Ad Astra Fellow, UCD School of Archaeology, and multi-national co-authors on their important new paper in Current Anthropology critically assessing archaeological publishing.
doi.org/10.1086/739789
‘Insularisation and isolation? Aligning the Mesolithics of Britain and Ireland’
Congratulations to Prof. Graeme Warren @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social on the second of his two co-authored papers in the Proceedings of The Royal Irish Academy 125C.
doi.org/10.1353/ria....
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Congratulations to Assoc Prof Barry Molloy and his team from the @erc.europa.eu funded The Fall of 1200 BC project hosted at @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social their major new publication in Nature Human Behaviour:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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'Querns in context – an exploration of the social and cultural significance of Iron Age quernstones'
Louise Søndergaard, Aarhus University
Please come along to an impromptu UCD School of Archaeology visiting speaker seminar in the Barry Raftery Seminar Room, Ardmore Annexe, 1pm Wed 4th March!
Congrats to our own Dr Anita Radini and her colleagues on their paper
“Cuisine and culture-contact: lipid residue analysis reveals lack of aquatic products in pottery from Viking Age England”
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Don’t forget to follow the links for our new MSc in Mediterranean Archaeology at UCD in our advert in latest issue of Current World Archaeology !
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I'm really looking forward to the wonderful exhibition on the Hereford Gospels later this year. I'll also be giving a talk and hosting an ink making workshop if you are in the area in May! www.herefordcathedral.org/Event/from-p...
www.herefordcathedral.org/Event/making...
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Digging pottery clay on Wicklow lakeshore
A mound of freshly dug pottery clay
A van with 20 bags of clay
Replica medieval pots made with this type of clay at UCD
Right. We have good pottery clay for our first year “Making the past” and our MSc “practical experimental archaeology” modules at University College Dublin’s @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social
Jeepers, but it’s heavy stuff to carry from a lakeshore across fields to a van though!
Happy Christmas to all, may you be at peace, with good memories, this morning, and have loved ones, and have all you need.
Our UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture (CEAMC) has come on a lot since this short introductory film was made, but it’s nice to look back at it m.youtube.com/watch?v=rRR0...
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Vote NMI!! The “Words on the Wave” exhibition and its project is stunning!!!!
UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture celebrated in one of UCD’s new banners!
This image is inspired by a passage in the Old Irish ‘Immram Curaig Mael Dúin’, where the hero enters a house to see gold and silver brooches on the walls
This brooch made by Brendan O’Neill
These are repeating courses! @nordikkraft.bsky.social and I are heading to graduation after our online graduate certificate in Experimental Archaeology and Material Culture! Distance Learning for the win!
“At Samhain, people believed the veil between this world and the other grew thin, when fairies moved through the land, and the dead drew near.”
Prof Aidan O’Sullivan @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social
📷 Filmed at @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social
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Professor AidanO’Sullivan, Head of School of Archaeology at UCD, brings history to life, carving this year’s Irish Halloween Jack O’Lantern from a turnip.
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A traditional Irish ghost turnip for Halloween #OicheShamhna #Samhain #Halloween #thinveilbetweentheworlds #NaSídhe
This was one my best, we’re carving Irish Halloween turnips today, in homage to the ur-turnip from 1943 from Ballyfin, Co Donegal, in National Museum of Ireland
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#Halloween #Samhain #OicheShamhna
