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Head of School/Prof at UCD Archaeology; Early Medieval archaeologist; Director @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social Member Royal Irish Academy; Fellow Society of Antiquaries; Dad of boys; Dog Dad; Hurling/Camogie; IC Member; Own Opinions here
“Little pup” (Irish phrase, means immature, callow, entitled, and a bit useless)
The bid to establish a legally binding Sector Employment Order (SEO) for commercial archaeology in Ireland is heading for the Labour Court in April.
If successful the order would impose minimum rates of pay, sick pay and pensions across the sector.
You can read the submissions in the case here...
This is one of my favorite grave decorations in Arras. More personalized dioramas celebrating professions, please.
Jeepers, I haven’t a clue.
🏺🗃️ Also from yesterday, some cuneiform especially for @moudhy.bsky.social : a 4000 year old receipt for a single chicken donated to a temple 🐔
That’s Ryan over on right side, in front
Congratulations to Dr Ryan Lash, of UCD School of Archaeology, recently appointed to the Royal Irish Academy’s “Young Academy Ireland”.
The 21 members of YAI will now begin a four-year focused programme of interdisciplinary collaboration, policy engagement and international partnership.
@ria.ie
NEW Pottery kiln excavated at Bronze Age Kalat-e Yavar, north-eastern Iran. Pottery produced here shares similarities with Iranian and Central Asian traditions, indicating cross-regional interaction between the Iranian Plateau and Central Asia.
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🏺 #Archaeology
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‘Being Early Medieval: Encounters with Early Irish Society through Archaeology, History and Experimental Archaeology’ University of Chester, 2021-2022 research seminar. youtu.be/jFBXAivgd5s?...
The manuscript of the week is RIA MS 23 E 25, Lebor na hUidre / The Book of the Dun Cow. This 12th century manuscript is best known for containing the oldest extant version of the Táin Bó Cuailgne, or the Cattle Raid of Cooley, a renowned Irish epic.
Dunmore Cave is associated with a brutal massacre by the Vikings, and large quantities of bones were found in the dark depths.
But does archaeology tell a different tale? Read all about it in our article
www.tuatha.ie/dunmore-cave/
But run of the mill in early medieval Ireland, according to early Irish law. Every mruigfer grade free commoner farmer was expected to own an iron cauldron
They don’t survive here though in archaeology, they would rust as soon as you look at them, if you didn’t oil them
Iron pan from 10th century AD York, England #IronworkThursday
Used by the Anglo-Scandinavian population, metal vessels such as this are rare and often fragmentary.
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📷 @yorkarchaeology.bsky.social / CC BY-NC 4.0
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Great, insightful article by @codohertynews.bsky.social on the reality of what's happening on #Peat in Ireland & the impact ...
The export figures say it all
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
Repeatedly the UK government have sought to save smaller British industries, while ignoring the huge university sector which has enormous impacts, in a university city for example
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I read an article once, about an elderly Texas couple, wealthy, smiling - happy to hear of wars in the Middle East, the end times are coming Darling!
Confident they were amongst the Righteous; happy, smiling, misanthropically evil in their hatred of humanity
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armaged...
Oh I don't know. I think if you're a Christian fundamentalist, the End Times and the rapture is very cool. Finally, all those dark-skinned people, all those people who use their genitalia different than you do, foreign people with funny names - they're all going to hell. What's not to like?
Yes, I was delighted to catch it! A classic detailed one
Mind you, the fundamentalists are loving their proximity to power. And for some, the exciting prospect now of Armageddon in Middle East and the end times, woohoo!!!
We have an incredible new PhD placement opportunity to help support the development and curation of our major exhibition on the Norman Conquest, opening in October 2027.
Learn more and apply through the link below!
www.bl.uk/services/res...
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)
@experimentarchaeol.bsky.social
A marginal figure drags an omitted portion of text into place in this copy of Thomas Hoccleve's Regiment of Princes (Arundel MS 38).
#ArchaeologyIsNotPolitical News
"UNESCO is deeply concerned by the first impact that the hostilities [in Iran] are already having on many world heritage sites,"
Lazare Eloundou Assomo
Director: World Heritage Centre, to Reuters.
spring/summer hot fashion tip: i heard that zoomorphic fibulae are expected to make a BIG comeback!
Let's see why clean energy technologies are so much more energy secure than oil.
A single solar panel (450W) costs about €100, same as a tank of petrol.
How many EV kilometres can the solar panel power compared to the tank of diesel?
Take a guess while I work it out on the back of an envelope.
The abject, pathetic failure of the Irish government on energy and renewables
www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
