2009 / 2010 Research Seminars
DEPARTMENT OF ARCHAEOLOGY
Research Seminars 2009–10
Tuesday 1-2pm (Room Conn A, Connolly Building)
13 October 2009: Prehistoric Transitions Research Group
Dr Ron Pinhasi: ‘Skull shapes, radiocarbon dates and the spread of farming into Europe’
20 October 2009: Historic Buildings Research Group
Robin Turk: ‘The archaeology of early modern monastic centres in Ireland’
Emma Ryan: ‘Later medieval port walled towns in south-east Munster’
27 October 2009: Historic Buildings Research Group
Dr Colin Rynne: 'Ironworking and the colonial enterprise in early modern Ireland, c. 1593-1640'.
10 November 2009: Historic Buildings Research Group
Elena O’Brien: ‘Urbanization, social stratification and housing in industrial Ireland’
Catherine Desmond: ‘Value conflicts: development control and archaeology’
Laura O’Connor: Archaeology and urban development in Munster towns
17 November 2009: Viking and Early Medieval Research Group
Bernadette McCarthy: ‘Early ecclesiastical settlement in Galway and Mayo’
Karen Moffat: ‘The ogham stones of Ireland’
1 December 2009: Biological Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Research Group
Linda Lynch: Health and disease in nineteenth-century Ireland
8 December 2009: Prehistoric Transitions Research Group
Professor William O’Brien ‘The introduction of tin-bronze metallurgy in Ireland’
12 January 2010: Viking and Early Medieval Research Group
Tracy Collins: ‘The place of religious women in the Irish archaeological record’
19 January 2010: Viking and Early Medieval Research Group
Marie Therese Barrett: ‘The early medieval church sites of Co. Limerick’
Cliodhna O’Leary: ‘The early medieval minor cross sculpture of Iniscealtra’
2 February 2010: Viking and Early Medieval Research Group
Dr Tomas Ó Carragáin: ‘The Making Christian Landscapes project: preliminary patterns’
Gil Boazman: ‘Christianity and regional landscapes in early medieval Ireland’
9 February 2010: Prehistoric Transitions Research Group
Alex Manteiga Brea: ‘Atlantic connections in the Bronze Age: Ireland and Spain’
Alan Hawkes: ‘Fulachtaí fia and burnt mound archaeology in Ireland’
16 February 2010: Archaeology of Cork Research Group
James O’Driscoll: ‘An archaeological remote sensing study of Garranes ringfort’
Rose Cleary: ‘Archaeological excavations at Garranes ringfort’
23 February 2010: Dr Rob Dinnis (University of Sheffield)
‘The Aurignacian of northwestern Europe’
2 March 2010: Historic Buildings and Viking Research Groups
Maire Geaney: ‘Late medieval carpentry in Ireland’
Joe Nunan: ‘The Archaeology of the Munster Plantation, 1580–1642’.
9 March 2010: Archaeological Ceramics and Biological Anthropology Research Groups
Niamh Doyle: ‘Pottery production and consumption in Ireland, 12th to 16th centuries AD’
Mara Tesorieri: The bioarchaeology of health in medieval Ireland
23 March 2010: Historic Buildings Research Group
Angela Buckley: ‘Urban landscapes in medieval Cork, AD 1200–1500’
Paul Rondelez: ‘Iron Working in later medieval Ireland’
30 March 2010: Viking and Early Medieval Research Group
Michelle Higgins: ‘Place-names and early ecclesiastical settlement in Cork’
Patrick Gleeson: ‘The archaeology of early medieval Irish kingship’
Johanna O’Sullivan: ‘Viking glass beads’
20 April 2010: Early Agriculture and Environmental Archaeology Research Group
Suzanne Smith: ‘Iron Age economy in Ireland in its environmental context’
Orla Power: ‘The archaeology and archaeobotany of medieval corn-drying kilns in Ireland’
27 April 2010: Archaeological Ceramics Research Group
Aine Howell Ingelbach: ‘Orléans-type medieval pottery’
Peter Looney: Neolithic pottery in north Munster
Elaine Lynch: Grooved ware in Ireland
4 May 2010: Prehistoric Transitions and Historic Buildings Research Groups
Aoife Feen: ‘The prehistoric stone circle complex of Co. Cork’
Edel Barry: ‘The archaeology of narrow gauge railways in Munster’
11 May 2010: Biological Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Research Group
Ciaran Brewster: ‘Craniometric analysis of Upper Palaeolithic populations in Europe’
Ian Magee: ‘Habitual activities in past populations and the estimation of age-of-death’
18 May 2010: Biological Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Research Group
Dr Anna Linderholm: Migration in Prehistory. DNA and Stable isotope analyses of Swedish skeletal material.