UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture

🪲 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.
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“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

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...

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

'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!

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

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...

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

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From Parchment to Binding - 29/05/2026 19:00:00 The Practical Processes of Making a Medieval Manuscript with Dr Sara Charles

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

Digging pottery clay on Wicklow lakeshore

A mound of freshly dug pottery clay

A van with 20 bags of clay

Replica medieval pots made with this type of clay at UCD

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.

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

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...

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

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

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!

“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

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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

This was one my best, we’re carving Irish Halloween turnips today, in homage to the ur-turnip from 1943 from Ballyfin, Co Donegal, in National Museum of Ireland

@nmireland.bsky.social
#Halloween #Samhain #OicheShamhna

An Irish ghost turnip - Halloween Jack-o-Lantern, everytime I make one they look different … 😳

History Smelled. Here’s How We’re Sniffing It Out How can reconstructing long-lost smells of ancient artifacts help us connect with the past?

Really nice coverage on our research on ancient scents by @sciam.bsky.social and @gayoung.bsky.social
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www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

Back in the winter of 2012, it says here, we decided to position UCD School of Archaeology as a “leading centre for experimental archaeology in Europe.”

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Dr Anita Radini is growing dye-plants at UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture, such as madder, woad and weld.

And they’ll be used by our own students in dyeing textiles

It’s time to apply for our online Grad Cert or our on-campus MSc/GradDip Experimental Archaeology

The bed in our early medieval house is ready for its blankets …

True even, but through will do too.. 🤣

UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture, Dublin - where dreams come through 🙂

UCD Archaeology students doing their experimental archaeology practicals today, as they do every Friday at CEAMC! This week, stone carving and flint knapping with Dr Anita Radini and Dr Ryan Lash, assisted ably by Lucy Robinson and Deborah Buchanan.

The Resin That Remembered: How Ancient Birch Tar Is Rewriting the Story of Neolithic Life New biomolecular evidence from prehistoric chewing gum reveals the intimate daily habits, diets, and toolmaking ingenuity of Europe’s first farmers.

Ancient DNA from Neolithic chewing gum reveals how Europe’s first farmers lived, worked, and ate. Birch tar preserves the intimacy of their daily lives in astonishing molecular detail. #Archaeology #Neolithic #AncientDNA #Anthropology www.anthropology.net/p/the-resin-...

Delighted to welcome Assoc. Prof Roy Flechner’s 3rd year class on “History from below: Rural life in the middle ages (HIS32800)”, to our Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture, where we explored daily life and work in an early medieval Irish rath