UCD School of Archaeology, Dublin

It is with great sadness that we heard of the death this morning of Mary de Courcy

Our deepest sympathies to her husband Prof Gabriel Cooney, and all her family and many friends

Ar dheis Dé go raibh a hanam

You can read Mary’s own reflections on her illness here www.irishtimes.com/health/your-...

UCD School of Archaeology supports an SEO for commercial archaeology in Ireland. It would support better employment conditions for young archaeologists and be of benefit to our discipline

'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!

A large mass grave from the Early Iron Age indicates selective violence towards women and children in the Carpathian Basin - Nature Human Behaviour In this analysis of biomolecular and archaeological data from a ninth-century BCE mass grave in the Carpathian Basin, Fibiger et al. find evidence for the targeted killing of mostly unrelated women an...

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...

@ucddublin.bsky.social @ucdsocscilaw.bsky.social

Join us as at UCD Postgraduate Open Day 24 Feb 12.00-5.00 to discuss your grad study opportunities:
🔹Archaeology
🔹Mediterranean Archaeology
🔹Experimental Archaeology and Material Culture
🔹Hunter Gatherer Archaeology
🔹World Heritage Management and Conservation
To register: www.ucd.ie/.../ucd-post...

Thanks to Dublin City Council's Central Library in the Ilac Centre for hosting our exhibition “Objects, war and memory in Ireland past and present”, drawing parallels between the modern refugee experience and Ireland's history of conflict and displacement - on until 31st March!

@researchireland.ie

‘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....

@ucddublin.bsky.social @ria.ie

“Reassessing the Mesolithic ‘shell middens’ of Rockmarshall, Co. Louth”
Congratulations to Dr Martin Moucheron @researchireland.ie Postdoc at @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social and co-authors on publication of a major component of his PhD research in the PRIA
doi.org/10.1353/ria....

@ucddublin.bsky.social

“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

@ucdarchaeology.bsky.social D Hunter-Gatherer Research Group Lab sessions. Voluntary work processing samples. This is what 322 >2mm fraction fish bones look like!

Join us at the 2026 UCD Postgraduate Open Day to discuss your opportunities for full and part-time study on campus and online:
🔹 Archaeology
🔹 Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture
🔹 Mediterranean Archaeology
🔹 Hunter Gatherer Archaeology
🔹 World Heritage Management & Conservation

Congratulations to Grace Rinehart Macrae, PhD student at @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social on her appointment as Museum Assistant Manager and the Medieval Mile Museum in Kilkenny. We wish her well in her new role. Further information: www.medievalmilemuseum.ie

@ucddublin.bsky.social

Thank you to the talented Sydney Thompson, HDip student @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social, who has been working in our laboratory with archaeological conservator Susannah Kelly reconstructing some extremely fragmented and challenging bronze age burial urns

@ucdsocscilaw.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social

🪲 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.
www.ucd.ie/archaeology/...

🎓 Graduate Certificate in Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology and Anthropology at @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social (part-time distance learning online). Registration now open for September 2026 entry.

www.ucd.ie/archaeology/study/graduatetaughtprogrammes

@ucddublin.bsky.social, @graemewarren.bsky.social

Cuisine and culture-contact: lipid residue analysis reveals lack of aquatic products in pottery from Viking Age England | Antiquity | Cambridge Core Cuisine and culture-contact: lipid residue analysis reveals lack of aquatic products in pottery from Viking Age England

‘Cuisine and culture-contact: lipid residue analysis reveals lack of aquatic products in pottery from Viking Age England’

Congratulations Dr Anita Radini and co-authors from the University of York, led by Dr Steve Ashby, on this important new Open Access paper in Antiquity.

doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

Back row from left to right – • Director UCD World Heritage Programme, • Interim Programme Manager for the Orkney World Heritage Programme, • Secretary General, The Great Spa Towns of Europe, • Chief Archaeologist National Monuments Service Front row from left to right – • Head of the World Heritage Unit in Romania, • Independent Consultant on cultural and natural heritage, • Former World Heritage Co-Ordinator and Assistant Director for Edinburgh World Heritage, • World Heritage Unit , Archaeologist NMS, • Regeneration Programme Manager within the Economy and Community Department of Cyngor Gwynedd in Northwest Wales

In collaboration with the @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social, the National Monuments Service delivered the international seminar ‘World Heritage nomination journey: Challenges and Successes’ sharing insights from European case studies to support the Strategy for World Heritage in Ireland 2025–2035.

Day 1 of 2 day research trip to Ceide/Belderrig with Jessica Smyth, Philippe de Smedt & Sam Kelley @arctic-glacial.bsky.social. Lively weather! Fantastic day in Belderrig. lots of new ideas. Mesolithic site. Neolithic field systems. Bronze Age activity. Deglacial/glacial evd & spectacular geology

UCD School of Archaeology hosted a thoughtful and moving seminar with Prof Ian Kuijt of Notre Dame, exploring heritage destruction in Ukraine, memory and conflict through film and discussion. Thank you to everyone who joined us.
(Dr Claire Cave, Prof Ian Kuijt, Dr Ryan Lash)

We are delighted to launch two scholarships for 2026/2027:

🔹School of Archaeology Graduate Scholarship

🔹The Kay Mahon Bursaries

Scholarships are open to EU and international students applying for on-campus MSc programmes. Closing 31 May 2026.

Grad Studies information: www.ucd.ie/archaeology/...

Some wetland archaeology books for World Wetlands Day!

#WorldWetlandsDay

Archaeology of the Irish Revolution in East Limerick Recording the archaeology of Ireland’s War of Independence and Civil War, 1917-1923, across the East Limerick Brigade area.

If you're interested in the archaeology of the Irish War of Independence and Civil War, take a look at Aidan Harte & Jo Brück's Storymap for East Limerick!

Storymap: storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/0eea...

Project information: www.ucd.ie/archaeology/...

@researchireland.ie, @nationalmons.bsky.social

Great news from @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social

Robert Power selected as a finalist in UCD’s Images of Research.

His research focuses on plants in the archaeological record, and the shortlisted image features emmer wheat, highlighting the role of plants in past societies.

www.ucd.ie/research/ima...

Hunter-Gatherer Research Group Lab. Students volunteer for a couple of hours a week. They gain experience processing samples. We get samples processed! Everyone is happy... @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social

UCD School of Archaeology’s social pages are Bluesky and Facebook

🏛️ Announcing our new MSc and GradDip in Mediterranean Archaeology at UCD School of Archaeology and UCD School of Classics.
Join us in Dublin, Ireland, next academic year to take our MSc in Mediterranean Archaeology.

📝 Registration opens in January. For more details: www.ucd.ie/archaeology/...

UCD School of Archaeology’s social pages are Bluesky and Facebook

Yes, Kilmainham Gaol. A door that told you your old life is over

Open for Sept 2026 entry!!!

Campus based MSc details below. Also our PT distance learning Graduate Certificate in Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology and Anthropology. Contact me for details. @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social @eaapam.bsky.social
www.ucd.ie/archaeology/...

First Harvests Project; Jessica Smyth; UCD Untangling climate, chronology and cereal cultivation in Later Neolithic Ireland 3600-2500 BC

Institute of Archaeologists of Ireland of Ireland Seminar
“First Harvests Project”
Jessica Smyth, @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social

Untangling climate, chronology and cereal cultivation in Later Neolithic Ireland 3600-2500BC.

Online event 19 Jan 2026, 19:30

www.eventbrite.ie/e/first-harv...