Early Medieval People and Things (EMPAT) project online lecture for the Institute of Archaeologists of Ireland (IAI), Monday 27 April, 2026 Funded by Research Ireland COALESCE programme Booking on Eventbrite

Aidan O'Sullivan@aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"How people in early medieval Ireland, AD 400-1100, made, used and discarded things" EMPAT will create knowledge from large amounts of data from existing Irish archaeological excavation reports, museum catalogues, and scientific literature. www.eventbrite.ie/e/early-medi...

Our ARCH10170: Making the Past first year archaeology students at UCD School of Archaeology engaging with “fabric” as a concept: And is there anything more fundamental to our humanity as cloth and clothes? Dr Anita Radini and Lucy Robinson on spinning and cordage

Our ARCH10170: Making the Past first year archaeology students at UCD School of Archaeology engaging with “fabric” as a concept: clay, sand, water, hair, wool, spinning, weaving, pottery making @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social

Making early medieval souterrain ware pots at our First Year Archaeology module ARCH10170: Making the Past - quality work #EarlyMedievalPeopleAndThings

Original ironworking activities now being excavated by our MSc students at UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture would have looked a little like this 🙂

Our MSc students digging our own ironsmelting and charcoal production site. Despite only dating from 5-6 years ago, the features are even now subtle - cattle trample, human activities, the passage of a plough in the past would wipe out most of this archaeology, useful learning for our students.

UCD’s early medieval roundhouse under construction (thatching in progress here) at University College Dublin’s Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture (CEAMC) Come study for MSc, Graduate Diploma or online Grad Cert with us! @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social

We offer an MSc, or Graduate Diploma (both on-campus) or Graduate Certificate (online, Distance Learning) in Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture programmes. Lots of seminars, workshops, practicals every Friday or also options - if online -to travel to Ireland for a week’s crafts & making

Get your Archaeology podcasts here with Abarta Heritage!!! All the experts, all the best Irish archaeology stories and insights www.abartaheritage.ie/amplify-arch...

Amplify Archaeology Podcast - Dig Into the Story of Ireland

Dig into the story of Ireland with the Amplify Archaeology Podcast. In this podcast series we will examine key aspects of Irish archaeology.

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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

We’re teaching experimental archaeology and archaeological excavation skills this next two weeks at @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social Popped into our early medieval roundhouse Makes you think of the thinginess of things, but especially the overwhelming woodiness of the past

🪲 Exploring Past Living Conditions Through Analysis of Archaeological Insects 🐞 For 'International Women and Girls in Science Day' Katie Wyse Jackson, MLitt student, discusses her research exploring what insect remains can tell us about living at Vindolanda Roman fort. www.ucd.ie/archaeology/...

“Changing the Landscape of Archaeological Publishing” 📚 Congratulations to Dr Jess Beck, Ad Astra Fellow, UCD School of Archaeology, and multi-national co-authors on their important new paper in Current Anthropology critically assessing archaeological publishing. doi.org/10.1086/739789

‘Insularisation and isolation? Aligning the Mesolithics of Britain and Ireland’ Congratulations to Prof. Graeme Warren @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social on the second of his two co-authored papers in the Proceedings of The Royal Irish Academy 125C. doi.org/10.1353/ria.... @ucddublin.bsky.social @ria.ie

Congratulations to Assoc Prof Barry Molloy and his team from the @erc.europa.eu funded The Fall of 1200 BC project hosted at @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social their major new publication in Nature Human Behaviour: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @ucddublin.bsky.social @ucdsocscilaw.bsky.social

A large mass grave from the Early Iron Age indicates selective violence towards women and children in the Carpathian Basin - Nature Human Behaviour

In this analysis of biomolecular and archaeological data from a ninth-century BCE mass grave in the Carpathian Basin, Fibiger et al. find evidence for the targeted killing of mostly unrelated women an...

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'Querns in context – an exploration of the social and cultural significance of Iron Age quernstones' Louise Søndergaard, Aarhus University Please come along to an impromptu UCD School of Archaeology visiting speaker seminar in the Barry Raftery Seminar Room, Ardmore Annexe, 1pm Wed 4th March!

Congrats to our own Dr Anita Radini and her colleagues on their paper “Cuisine and culture-contact: lipid residue analysis reveals lack of aquatic products in pottery from Viking Age England” www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Cuisine and culture-contact: lipid residue analysis reveals lack of aquatic products in pottery from Viking Age England | Antiquity | Cambridge Core

Cuisine and culture-contact: lipid residue analysis reveals lack of aquatic products in pottery from Viking Age England

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Don’t forget to follow the links for our new MSc in Mediterranean Archaeology at UCD in our advert in latest issue of Current World Archaeology ! @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social www.ucd.ie/archaeology/...

I'm really looking forward to the wonderful exhibition on the Hereford Gospels later this year. I'll also be giving a talk and hosting an ink making workshop if you are in the area in May! www.herefordcathedral.org/Event/from-p... www.herefordcathedral.org/Event/making... @bibliojenni.bsky.social

From Parchment to Binding - 29/05/2026 19:00:00

The Practical Processes of Making a Medieval Manuscript with Dr Sara Charles

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Right. We have good pottery clay for our first year “Making the past” and our MSc “practical experimental archaeology” modules at University College Dublin’s @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social Jeepers, but it’s heavy stuff to carry from a lakeshore across fields to a van though!

Happy Christmas to all, may you be at peace, with good memories, this morning, and have loved ones, and have all you need.

Our UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture (CEAMC) has come on a lot since this short introductory film was made, but it’s nice to look back at it m.youtube.com/watch?v=rRR0...

UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology and Material Culture: Making, Understanding, Storytelling

YouTube video by UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology and Material Culture

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Vote NMI!! The “Words on the Wave” exhibition and its project is stunning!!!!

National Museum of Ireland@nmireland.bsky.social · 8mo ago

We’re nominated for Research Project of the Year! 🎉 Vote for Words on the Wave and help us celebrate Ireland’s medieval heritage: 👉 www.museum.ie/en-IE/News/V... #MedievalIreland #IrishArchaeology

UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture celebrated in one of UCD’s new banners! This image is inspired by a passage in the Old Irish ‘Immram Curaig Mael Dúin’, where the hero enters a house to see gold and silver brooches on the walls This brooch made by Brendan O’Neill

These are repeating courses! @nordikkraft.bsky.social and I are heading to graduation after our online graduate certificate in Experimental Archaeology and Material Culture! Distance Learning for the win!

UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture@experimentarchaeol.bsky.social · last yr.

We offer an MSc, or Graduate Diploma (both on-campus) or Graduate Certificate (online, Distance Learning) in Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture programmes. Lots of seminars, workshops, practicals every Friday or also options - if online -to travel to Ireland for a week’s crafts & making

“At Samhain, people believed the veil between this world and the other grew thin, when fairies moved through the land, and the dead drew near.” Prof Aidan O’Sullivan @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social 📷 Filmed at @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/aCnDu...

University College Dublin@ucddublin.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Professor AidanO’Sullivan, Head of School of Archaeology at UCD, brings history to life, carving this year’s Irish Halloween Jack O’Lantern from a turnip. @aidanosullivan.bsky.social

Professor AidanO’Sullivan, Head of School of Archaeology at UCD, brings history to life, carving this year’s Irish Halloween Jack O’Lantern from a turnip. @aidanosullivan.bsky.social

A traditional Irish ghost turnip for Halloween #OicheShamhna #Samhain #Halloween #thinveilbetweentheworlds #NaSídhe