2011 / 2012 Research Seminars
DEPARTMENT OF ARCHAEOLOGY
Research Seminars 2011/12
Tuesdays 1-2pm (Room Conn A, Connolly Building)
A lunch-time seminar each Tuesday when staff, students and visiting academics give presentations on current research. All welcome.
PERIOD 1
18 October: Historic Buildings Research Group
Dr Colin Rynne: ‘Technological change, technological survival: aspects of technological determinism in the study of medieval technology’
25 October: Historic Buildings Research Group
David Gwyn (Llandudno): ‘The industrial archaeology of the Welsh Slate Industry’
1 November: Historic Buildings Research Group
Bernadette McCarthy: ‘Early ecclesiastical settlement in Galway and Mayo’
Gil Boazman: ‘Christianity and regional landscapes in early medieval Ireland’
Joe Nunan: ‘The archaeology of the Munster Plantation 1580–1642 AD’
8 November: Viking and Early Medieval Research Group
Dr Tomas Ó Carragáin: ‘Recalling Jerusalem, Recalling Rome:
The Sacred Topographies of Major Ecclesiastical Sites in Early Medieval Ireland’
15 November: Prehistoric Transitions Research Group
Dr Richard Jennings: ‘Southern Iberia as a glacial refuge for the last Neanderthals’
22 November: Viking and Early Medieval Research Group
Tracy Collins: ‘Medieval nunneries in Ireland’
Karen Moffat: ‘Ogham in Ireland’
29 November: Viking and Early Medieval Research Group
Dr David Griffiths (University of Oxford): ‘Landscape, burial and identity around the Viking-Age Irish Sea’
Preceded on the Monday evening 28 November) by a public lecture on ‘Settlement under the sand: excavation and survey in Birsay and Skaill, Orkney’
6 December: Prehistoric Transitions Research Group
Shaun Aherne: ‘Prehistoric ring-ditches in Ireland’
Alan Hawkes: ‘Fulachtaí fia and burnt mound archaeology in Ireland’
PERIOD 2
10 January: Viking and Early Medieval Research Group
Dr Francis Ludlow (Harvard University) ‘Documenting a Millennium of Extreme Weather in Ireland: The Case of the Medieval Irish Annals’.
17 January: Viking and Early Medieval Research Group
Cliodhna O’Leary: ‘The early medieval minor cross sculpture of Iniscealtra’
Michelle Higgins: ‘Place-names and early ecclesiastical settlement in Cork’
24 January: Viking and Early Medieval Research Group
Patrick Gleeson: ‘The archaeology of early medieval Irish kingship’
Francesca Callaghan: ‘Pagan Viking-Age burial, ritual and cultic practice in Cloghermore cave’.
31 January: Historic Buildings Research Group
Dr James Lyttleton: ‘The seventeenth-century manor house in Co. Offaly’
7 February: Viking and Early Medieval Research Group
Dudley Martin: ‘Viking Age stick pins: a study’
Daniel O’Mahony: ‘A comparative study of the Christianization of the Hiberno-Scandinavian population in Ireland during the Viking Age’.
14 February: Prehistoric Transitions Research Group
Ella Motherway: ‘Lidar survey in archaeology: the prehistoric landscape of Limerick’
Carol Dempsey: ‘Identifying prehistoric stone axes sources in Co. Limerick’
Damien McCarthy: ‘Fields and the evolution of the Irish farmscape’.
21 February: Prehistoric Transitions Research Group
Abigail Ash: ‘Cranial and postcranial morphological variation, activity patterns, behaviour, mobility, diet and demography in early European populations’
Olivia Cheronet: ‘A geometric morphometrics study of the shaping of European populations’.
28 February: Biological Anthropology Research Groups
Ciaran Brewster: ‘Craniometric analysis of Upper Palaeolithic populations in Europe’
Katherine Beatty: ‘Skin and bones: the face in the archaeological imagination’
6 March: Biological Anthropology Research Groups
Mara Tesorieri: ‘Health in Medieval Ireland and Britain’
Niamh Carty: ‘Trauma in medieval Irish populations’
Niamh Daly: ‘Food for thought: an isotopic assessment of food practices in early medieval Ireland’
13 March: Prehistoric Transitions Research Group
Alex Manteiga Brea: ‘Atlantic connections in the Bronze Age: Ireland and Spain’
William O’Brien: ‘Derrycarhoon: a prehistoric copper mine in south-west Ireland’
Helle Helsner: ‘Bronze casting in early Ireland’
20 March: Biological Anthropology Research Groups
Dr Barra Ó Donnabháin: ‘Monks, metal and memory: excavations at Aghmanister, Co Cork’
Paul Rondelez: ‘Ironworking technology at Aghmanister, Co. Cork’
27 March: Prehistoric Transitions Research Group
Dr Alison Sheridan (National Museum of Scotland): ‘Green Treasures from the Magic mountains: Alpine Neolithic axeheads as revealed by Projet JADE’
The same speaker will deliver a lecture at 7pm that evening on:
‘Supernatural power dressing: jewellery and dress accessories, 2500–1500 BC in Ireland and Britain’
