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Archaeology of Irish Industry
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Two vernacular industrial sites in rural county Galway: a water-powered forge or 'spade mill' at Coola and a brick making site at Brusk. / By Jerry O'Sullivan, John Tierney and Brendon Wilkins. / Paper presented to IHAI, 15th November 2008
The origins of the Irish Cillin: the segregation of infan...
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Paper presented to TAG, Columbia University, 2008. / In later and post medieval Ireland, unbaptised children were rarely buried in consecrated ground. Strangers, suicides, or unrepentant murderers were also treated differently in death, interred in Cillin cemeteries - liminal, clandestine plac...
WAC Newford Pyre
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Paper presented to WAC 06, Dublin, 2008. / Recent decades have seen a proliferation of new scientific approaches to archaeological material. These studies have added impetus to long-standing archaeological debates, but they have also resulted in a disciplinary divergence of archaeological scienc...
WAC Knowledge, Value and the Celtic Tiger
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Paper presented to WAC 06, Dublin, 2008. / The buoyant Irish economy has stimulated an unprecedented boom in commercial sector archaeology. The scale of this work has challenged accepted understanding of regional archaeological sequences with the discovery of new and entirely unexpected archaeo...
Rumsfeldian Archaeology
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Opinion / Opinion / Rumsfeldian Archaeology / “ / A / As we know, there are known knowns. There are things
An early medieval settlemt/cemetery at Carrowkeel, Co. Gl...
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An early medieval settlement/cemetery at Carrowkeel, Co. Galway / Brendon Wilkins and Susan Lalonde / A
Heritage Awards Abstract
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Awards for the Presentation of Heritage Research 2007 / Thursday 13 September 2007: 09.30-19.30 at the
EAA Cork Abstracts Final
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11th EAA Annual Meeting, Cork, Ireland. 5–11 September 2005 / DAVID FONTIJN, UNIVERSITY OF LEIDEN MER
WARP Abstract
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LECTURE PROPOSAL WARP/SWAP/SAS CONFERENCE, EDINBURGH, 21-23 SEPT 2005 ALLUVIAL AND ESTURINE WETLAND
EAA Paper Abstracts
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Fieldwork in an interpret ive world: reconsidering the onsite relationships between subject, object
Known knowns, known unknowns and unknown unknowns: Rumsfe...
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This paper cheerfully accepts the challenge elloquently articulated by the existential poet Donald Rumsfeld. In order to justify the vast public expenditure on development-led archaeology projects, how do we purposely find the unkown unknowns when we don’t even know what they look like? But as we...
If it weren’t for those pesky kids: the spatial segregati...
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Death confronts us with the ultimate boundary through which we all inexorably pass. According to Derrida, awareness of our own mortality calls forth other intangible boundaries, such as ethical constraints to our freedom and the moral indelibility of our actions. Death is the decisive end point f...
Time and Tide: five millennia of environmental change and...
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The archaeological excavation of alluvial and estuarine landscapes in response to large infrastructural development programmes is a relatively new direction for Irish archaeology, albeit one of increasing importance. Site 34, in the townland of Newrath, Co. Kilkenny, was excavated on behalf of Wa...
Excavations at Newrath, Co. Kilkenny as part of the N25 W...
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NRA/UCD Seminar: Towards Best Practice in Alluvial and Estuarine Archaeology.
Site 35 Newrath, Neolithic hoard, structure and Iron Age ...
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Site 35 contained evidence relating to Early Neolithic ‘ritual’ activity in the form of deliberate deposition of artefacts in pits. Activity continued into the Middle Neolithic with a partial ring ditch associated with pottery being recorded. The next phase of activity related to a small scale, a...
Newrath Archaeological and palaeoenvironmental investigat...
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New road developments in southern Ireland are not only improving the infrastructure of the country in terms of road safety and meeting the demands of increasing traffic volume but are also providing a rare opportunity for archaeological and palaeoenvironmental investigations. One such pre-constr...
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diggingthedirt's Documents
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Carrowkeel early med cemetery (Volume 1) 494 Reads |
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Carrowkeel early med cemetery (Volume 2) 271 Reads |
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Clogharevaun Bronze Age burnt mound and po... 320 Reads |
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Brusk early modern brick kilns 519 Reads |
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Newford Bronze Age cremation pyre and burn... 471 Reads |
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Ballykeeran Late Bronze Age Cist and ring-... 292 Reads |
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Time and Tide - presentation of Newrath to... 96 Reads |
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Time and tide: five thousand years of huma... 249 Reads |
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Deerpark Iron Age ring‐ditch with crematio... 463 Reads |
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Newrath Archaeological and palaeoenvironme... 194 Reads |
