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Archaeology

Publications

 

Chapters in Books

2003  Trepanations and pseudotrepanations: evidence of cranial surgery from prehistoric and early historic Ireland. In R Arnott, S Finger and CUM Smith (eds) Trepanation: history, discovery, theory. Lisse: Swets & Zeitlinger, 79-94.

2001  Dublin: the biological identity of the Hiberno-Norse town. In S Duffy (ed) Medieval Dublin II. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 65-87 (with B. Hallgrímsson).

2001  A cut above: cranial surgery in medieval Dublin. In S Duffy (ed) Medieval Dublin II. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 216-232.

2000 An appalling vista? The Celts and the archaeology of later prehistoric Ireland. In A Desmond, G Johnson, M McCarthy, J Sheehan and ES Twohig (eds) New Agendas in Irish Prehistory: papers in commemoration of Liz Anderson. Bray: Wordwell, 189-196
Journal Papers

2005 Why are rare traits unilaterally expressed?  Trait frequency and unilateral expression for cranial nonmetric traits in humans. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 128, 14-28 (with B. Hallgrímsson, DE Blom, MC Lozada and KT Willmore). 

2004 Composition of the founding population of Iceland: biological distance and morphological variability in Early Historic Atlantic Europe. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 124, 257-274 (with B. Hallgrímsson, GB Walters, DML Cooper, D Guðbjartsson D and K. Stefánsson).
Booklets

1999 The Treatment of Human Remains: technical paper for archaeologists. Dublin: Irish Association of Professional Archaeologists.

Other Publications

2002  Human remains from Tara, Co Meath. In H Roach, Excavations at Ráith na Ríg, Tara, Co Meath, 1997. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy/ Discovery Programme, 123-125.

2001  aDNA and aRCHAEOLOGY. Archaeology Ireland 15, 34-35.

1998  The origins of the population of Ireland: a survey of putative immigrations in Irish prehistory and history. Emania 17, 47-81 (with J Mallory)

1998  Decommissioning our dead. Archaeology Ireland, 12, 18-19 (with L Buckley and E Murphy).

1998  The human remains.  In B Ó Ríordáin, A Bronze Age cemetery mound at Grange, Co Roscommon. Journal of Irish Archaeology 8, 57-71

1998  The cremated human remains from the pit burial, Glassamucky, Co Dublin. In C Manning (ed) Dublin and Beyond the Pale: studies in honour of Patrick Healy. Bray, Wordwell, 116.

1998  Analysis of the cremated remains. In S Ó Nualláin, Excavation of the smaller court-tomb and associated hut sites at Ballyglass, Co Mayo. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 98C, 144-147 

1996  The human remains from Caherquin, Co Kerry.  In I Bennett, Excavations at Caherquin, Co Kerry.  Journal of the Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society 29, 28-30.

1995  Monuments of shame: some probable trophy heads from medieval Dublin. Archaeology Ireland 9, 12-15.

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