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UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology and Material Culture: “Making, Understanding, Storytelling” www.ucd.ie/archaeology/ceamc Posts by Aidan O’Sullivan & Anita Radini, at UCD School of Archaeology

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Early Medieval People & Things (EMPAT) @empatireland.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
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
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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
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
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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
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
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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Making early medieval souterrain ware pots at our First Year Archaeology module ARCH10170: Making the Past - quality work #EarlyMedievalPeopleAndThings
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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
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 🙂
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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
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.
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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
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
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UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
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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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Get your Archaeology podcasts here with Abarta Heritage!!! All the experts, all the best Irish archaeology stories and insights www.abartaheritage.ie/amplify-arch...
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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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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
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
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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
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
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UCD School of Archaeology, Dublin @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
🪲 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/...
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UCD School of Archaeology, Dublin @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
“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
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Changing the Landscape of Archaeological Publishing | Current Anthropology
Disseminating research is a key component of scholarly labor, but the costs and benefits of the current structure of academic publishing are underexamined within anthropology. This paper brings togeth...
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UCD School of Archaeology, Dublin @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
‘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
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UCD School of Archaeology, Dublin @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
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
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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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UCD School of Archaeology, Dublin @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
'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!
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UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
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...
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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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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
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/...
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Sara Charles @saracharles.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
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
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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
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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
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!
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
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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Happy Christmas to all, may you be at peace, with good memories, this morning, and have loved ones, and have all you need.
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UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
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...
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UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology and Material Culture: Making, Understanding, Storytelling
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UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Vote NMI!! The “Words on the Wave” exhibition and its project is stunning!!!!
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UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
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
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Jacintha @jacinthah.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
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!
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UCD School of Archaeology, Dublin @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
“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...
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University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
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
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UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
A traditional Irish ghost turnip for Halloween #OicheShamhna #Samhain #Halloween #thinveilbetweentheworlds #NaSídhe
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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
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
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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
An Irish ghost turnip - Halloween Jack-o-Lantern, everytime I make one they look different … 😳
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Bara Huber @barahuber.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Really nice coverage on our research on ancient scents by @sciam.bsky.social and @gayoung.bsky.social 🏺🧪👩‍🔬 www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...
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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?
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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
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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UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
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
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UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
The bed in our early medieval house is ready for its blankets …
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UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
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.
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Anthropology.net @anthropology.net · 15/10/2025
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-...
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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.
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UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
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
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UCD School of Archaeology, Dublin @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
"Within|Without: The Archaeology of Partitions", a conference exploring how partitions shape who we are. Join a day of dialogue on how we divide and connect across time. 🗓 Sat 18 Oct 2025, 9:15–17:30 📍 Edmund Burke Theatre, Trinity College Dublin 🌍 In-person and online: 👉 bit.ly/Within-Without
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8th National Monuments Service annual archaeology conference
Within|Without: the archaeology of partitions
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UCD School of Archaeology, Dublin @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Speakers include Prof Aidan O'Sullivan, @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social, and other leading Irish and international researchers.
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National Museum of Ireland @nmireland.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Come and meet the team from the National Museum of Ireland at the National Ploughing Championships, Screggan, Tullamore, Co. Offaly, taking place from 16th to 18th September 2025. www.museum.ie/en-IE/News/T...
Meet our education team at the Ploughing Championship 2025Put your questions to the Irish Antiquities division at the Ploughing 2025Minister of Culture, Communications and Sport Patrick O'Donovan met the Irish Antiquities division, at the Ploughing Championship 2025.
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UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
UCD 2025/26 academic year is beginning! First up, ARCH30500: Experimental Archaeology & Ancient Technologies led by Dr Brendan O’Neill Our third years (and some MSc students) on a week long course making pottery, casting bronze, making huts in one day using hazel and natural ties, etc
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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Interested in experimental archaeology & material culture? This online graduate certificate at UCD is just the best fun - and you can do it from your own home! hub.ucd.ie/usis/!W_HU_M...
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Tuatha @tuatha.ie · 22/08/2025
A wonderful day with Tuatha Members at @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social, where Dr Brendan O'Neill led a workshop on casting Bronze Age axes, and Dr Ryan Lash had us carving early medieval cross slabs and cursing stones. A truly engaging, fun, and immersive day! Looking forward to the next outing!
Carving a stone with hammer and chiselDr Ryan Lash discusses the art and materiality of early medieval stone carving Tuatha Members having a go at stone carvingSmelting copper in an open furnace
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Tuatha @tuatha.ie · 23/08/2025
It was a fantastic experience for us to get hands-on with casting an Early Bronze Age axe at the @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social Dr Brendan O'Neill and Tuatha Members went through the whole process, from creating the clay tuyere & crucible to using the bellows to the all-important pour at the end.
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UCD School of Archaeology, Dublin @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Delighted to welcome Steve and Andrea White to UCD School of Archaeology and to thank them for their generous philanthropic support of our UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture (CEAMC), through their Mary Agnes McDonnell LeBlanc donation. 👏🙏🙂
Steve and Andrea White at a plaque in UCD School of Archaeology acknowledging their financial support Steve and Andrea White at CEAMC
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UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Only the future is unchangeable; the past is constantly changing. How ongoing research and new methods continually change our image of the past, our images of the past in the truest sense of the word. The shaman with many faces:
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UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Shane Smith, filmmaker, & colleagues are filming a movie in the UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture today, “Stone Elegy” “A mythic tale of connection and survival set against the vivid landscapes of ancient Ireland.” You can support the film on Instagram @thinveil_pictures
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National Museum of Ireland @nmireland.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Drop-In Manuscript Makers! 📍 National Museum of Ireland – Kildare Street 📅 Wed 30 July| 13:30–15:30 🎟️ Free | No booking needed Step into the world of early medieval scribes! Try calligraphy, explore ancient pigments & learn how treasures like the Book of Kells were made www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...
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