National Archaeology Seminar 2009

Programme of Talks

9.30am Registration
10.00am Welcome and introduction
Fred Barry, NRA Chief Executive and Rónán Swan, NRA Head of Archaeology (acting)
10.10am  From boy to man—‘rights’ of passage and the lithic assemblage from the Neolithic mound in Tullahedy, Co. Tipperary (presentation extract)
Farina Sternke, Lithic Finds Specialist
10.30am Spindle whorls and hand spinning in Ireland (presentation extract)
Richard O’Brien, NRA Archaeologist
10.50am Food processing and manufacturing at burnt mounds: what do the archaeological features reveal? (presentation extract)
Finn Delaney and John Tierney, Senior Archaeologists
11.10am Questions & answers
11.20am Tea/coffee
11.40am Clay and fire: the development and distribution of pottery traditions in prehistoric Ireland (presentation extract)
Eoin Grogan and Helen Roche, Independent Consultants
12.00pm  Woodland resource use since the Bronze Age in the Irish midlands (presentation extract)
Ellen OCarroll, Wood Identification Specialist
12.20pm  Reinventing the wheel (presentation extract)
Caitríona Moore, Excavation Director,  and Chiara Chirotti, Surveyor and Illustrator
12.40pm Questions & answers
12.50pm Lunch
2.30pm For whom the bell tolls: the monastic site at Clonfad 3, Co. Westmeath (presentation extract)
Paul Stevens, Senior Archaeologist
2.50pm New evidence for metalworking technology on various NRA projects (presentation extract)
Angela Wallace, Archaeometallurgist
3.10pm Wood charring and fuel production in early medieval and late medieval Ireland—revelations from recent excavations (presentation extract)
Niall Kenny, Archaeological Researcher
3.30pm Questions & answers