Archaeology Seminar 2007

Programme of Talks

9.30amRegistration
10.00amWelcome & introduction
Rónán Swan, NRA Head of Archaeology (Acting)
10.10amOld routes to new research: the results of the Edercloon wetland excavations and aims for the future (presentation extract)
Caitríona Moore, Excavation Director
10.30am The palaeoenvironmental potential of waterlogged deposits and their contribution to archaeological investigations (presentation extract)
Scott Timpany, Archaeobotanist
10.50amArchaeological investigations at Twomileborris (presentation extract)
Micheál Ó Droma, Excavation Director
11.10amQuestions & answers
11.20amTea/coffee
11.35amFauna & fulachta fiadh: animal bones from burnt mounds on the N9/N10 Carlow Bypass (presentation extract)
Auli Tourunen, Archaeozoologist
11.55am Excavation at Clareabbey on the N18 Ennis Bypass, Co. Clare (presentation extract)
Sébastien Joubert, NRA Senior Archaeologist (Acting)
12.15amExcavation of a multiperiod site at Rahally, Co. Galway (presentation extract)
Gerry Mullins, Excavation Director
12.35pmQuestions & answers
12.45pmLunch
2.00pm The Ballyhanna Research Project—an introduction (presentation extract)
Michael MacDonagh, NRA Senior Archaeologist
2.10pmAn overview of the palaeopathological analysis of the medieval human remains from Ballyhanna, Co. Donegal (presentation extract)
Catriona McKenzie, Osteoarchaeologist
2.30pmOsteoarchaeological analysis of the disarticulated material from the Ballyhanna human skeletal assemblage (presentation extract)
Róisín McCarthy, Assistant Researcher Osteoarchaeologist
2.40pm Multi-elemental analysis of human archaeological bone (presentation extract)
Tasneem Bashir, Analytical Chemist
2.50pmExtraction and amplification of ancient DNA and sex determination in human medieval skeletal assemblages (presentation extract)
Sheila Tierney, Biomolecular Scientist
3.00pmQuestions & answers
3.15pmTea/coffee
3.30pm The new National Monument at Lismullin and other recent developments on the M3 (presentation extract)
Mary Deevy, NRA Senior Archaeologist
3.50pmFragments from the past: the prehistory of the M3 (presentation extract)
Eimear O'Connor, Archaeological Researcher
4.00pm Travels through historic time—the medieval archaeology of the M3 (presentation extract)
Jonathan Kinsella, Archaeological Researcher
4.10pm Early and later medieval historical research on the M3: sources, contexts and analyses (presentation extract)
Anne Connon & Margaret Murphy, Consultant Historians
4.30pmQuestions & answers