@marchaeologist.bsky.social
PhD Student @UCD Dublin | Mediterranean Archaeologist | Archaeobotanist | Archaeology of Food and Cooking in pre-Roman SE Italy | Mediocre Musician
All the lies they're telling about Renee Good are in service of an even bigger lie: that individual human lives have no intrinsic worth and are therefore theirs to dispose of. publiccomment.blog/p/the-poison...
09.01.2026 21:34 — 👍 1335 🔁 325 💬 3 📌 10PLEASE SHARE WITH INTERESTED FOLKS!
I am co-organizing a session for the #EAA2026 with some fellow scholars” Session #65 “Rounding out the Menu: Underrepresented Plants in the Archaeology of Foodways.”
Flyer with session abstract and additional info coming soon!
UCD School of Archaeology PhD/MLitt Research Day kicks off, an exciting range of topics being explored by our researchers
10.12.2025 10:12 — 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Can the archaeological collective help? These are finds from our recent excavation at Glendalough. All from cultivated soils with lots of C19-20 material. Triangular(ish) sections, varied widths. They are very clearly a 'thing' but we don't know what. Any suggestions/parallels appreciated.
14.08.2025 15:39 — 👍 15 🔁 12 💬 3 📌 1
From left: PhD student Marc Morris; M Litt student Keelin Murphy; BA graduate Roisin O Droma (currently working as an archaeobotanist at IAC); Assoc. Prof. Meriel McClatchie; MSc graduate Aoife Soo (currently working as an archaeobotanist at ACSU).
UCD archaeobotanists past and present are at the IWGP conference in Groningen, Netherlands this week. This is the largest gathering of archaeobotanists in the world, providing an excellent opportunity for the Irish team to share their research findings on the global stage
archaeobotany.org/iwgp2025/
Everyone at the end of our @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social student training programme - next two weeks are community volunteer excavation. Thanks to all for their hard work znc engagement, especially in the ridiculous heat of the last couple of days...
20.06.2025 16:54 — 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Marc got the job of planning the small stones at the bottom of the trench - it was all too much in the end 😂
17.06.2025 17:24 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
I will be giving a talk at the IIHSA’s Day School “Hearth And Home: Everyday Lives In The Ancient World” at Trinity College Dublin on 29 March, further details and booking at the link below!
www.iihsa.ie/events/heart...
We are delighted to announce that the Bronze Age Forum will be hosted by UCD School of Archaeology, 14-16 Nov 2025, with kind support of @nationalmons.bsky.social, TII and @nmireland.bsky.social. For info see bronzeageforum2025.wordpress.com #BronzeAge #Archaeology
22.01.2025 15:24 — 👍 17 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 3DEADLINE EXTENDED to 3rd March
Link to submit: rb.gy/lp3j5s
Environmental archaeologist? Work in Ireland or with Irish material? Exploring questions of sustainability, past, present and future?
Calling papers for this year’s Environmental Archaeologists in Ireland Conference in Dublin on 10th May!
Submission link: tinyurl.com/eai2025
Submit by 10/2/2025.
The AYIA conference submission deadline has been extended to the 24th of January 2025! To submit your abstract, please visit tinyurl.com/ayia2025.
Thank you to everyone who has submitted so far - we are delighted to read such a wide range of submissions! 🏛️📚🤎 #AYIA2025
A call for papers poster for session #111 at the European Association of Archaeologists conference 2025. Titled "Let's address the other-than-human animal in the room: moving forward with multispecies archaeologies of prehistory".
Happy New Year!
Calling all animal-interested-prehistorians! Join the grad students of @ansoc-erc.bsky.social Nóra, Ollie, Gywain, @alexsiekmann.bsky.social, and I for our session #111 at #EAA2025 @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social.
Submit by 08/02/25 🐑🐎🐷🐮🫎
