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Delighted to say I’ve got awarded a grant for 12 radiocarbon dates to use on animal bones from Castlepook cave, from the Speleological Union of Ireland. Thank you very much! #CaveArchaeology #IrishArchaeology #CastlepookCaveProject 🏺🦣 #Zooarchaeology

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Phil Kenny, our lead and supervisor cave archaeologist, out in the bright, warm sunshine after working with the team deep inside the cave for 5hours.

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Funded by @ria.ie & support from @researchireland.ie Cork County Council & CSG

Our cave archaeologists & cavers’ group photos outside Castlepook cave, July 2025 research excavation season, taken on different days but including the first day.

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So now we wait until sometime in December for all the dating results and these will feed into another paper to write. Exciting !

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To get to Pleistocene layers,we always need to go through the Holocene ones. Would be a pity not to use such an opportunity. Within the project we also study the Holocene traces of human occupation in Central Asia caves.

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A old c.1980s can of Fanta found inside Castlepook cave passageways last week. A blast from the past!

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Day 5
#CastlepookCaveProject excavation 2025

A very warm afternoon (26Cel in the shade now). Cooler in the cave.

A great first week and more bones coming out of the cave from various areas. Week 2 should be great!

Post-ex will be fun with me!

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Day 4

“All by myself …”🎶🎤

Everyone working hard in the cave in various areas…

A few bear and reindeer bones coming out today…

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Day 3 … bones coming out today including brown bear and below, a reindeer distal humerus (front leg).

Sun blazing from the blue sky!

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I love the smell of cave dirt - each cave has a different smell I’m finding and I’m here for it all!

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#cavearchaeology
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The different colours of cave bone washing water … early to end ….

Like coffee but not coffee!

Speaking of coffee… time to make some!

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First look into the box of ‘fresh’ cave bones …..

Oooooooooooo 😯

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Oldest evidence of deep-cave rituals in Southwest Asia discovered Archaeological research at Manot Cave in Galilee has unveiled evidence of ritualistic gatherings dating back 35,000 years

Interesting addition to the record of caves as sacred spaces, and the usefulness of dentists.

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The final lot of photos from our funded research cave excavation at Castlepook cave, Co. Cork, Ireland, last April 2024. The amazing team and essential equipment! Thanks to Royal Irish Academy & Irish Research Council grants. 🏺
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