There is also a big, windy ocean just to the left of Ireland…

Once upon a time I’d go to archaeology conferences in the USA, and after the day’s work the Irish - and those fond of the Irish - would go find a room in a pub and sing into the late night This was one of mine, “Lord Franklin” By Kevin Burke & Mícheál Ó Domhnaill youtu.be/0_KeDoVPTJc?...

Old Soviet Joke : A man posses the news vendor every day, picks up the paper, looks at the front page, puts it back instantly. Finally the vendor asks him why he does it. I'm looking for an obituary, he says Obituaries are at the back, the vendor says Not this one, says the man.

“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go”

Oh, that’s very nice - PhD on migrant labour and craft in the 18th century

"The results are astonishingly clear. On rewilded land, biodiversity surged across the board, with the number of bird species up 261%. The variety of bumblebee and butterfly species more than doubled, their abundance increased over 10x." The cure for nature loss exists. share.google/w30RUdw1902W...

📰 3500-year-old textile workshop preserved by fire opens a window into understanding the 'textile revolution' of the Bronze Age 🏺 #AntiquityResearch #ArchaeologyNews via @labrujulaverde.bsky.social www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/03/a...

Shoe-shaped ceramic vessels, buried with a skeleton missing both feet at 6th-century-AD Germany. In medieval Europe, physical disability was seen as an impediment to moral goodness. The shoes may have symbolically 'restored' the body. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... #FolkloreThursday 🏺 #Archaeology

'Preserved fingerprints, 50 in total, allowed researchers to identify who made [the beads]. The prints belong to individuals of different ages: children, adolescents, and adults.'

#FindsFriday Frankish Disk Brooch, 7th Century. Gold, filigree, mother-of-pearl, garnets, blue and green stones. Metropolitan Museum of #Art #Archaeology #History #artwork

As global biodiversity decreases at an alarming rate, picturing the nature-rich worlds in which past peoples lived becomes more and more difficult. How can archaeologists learn from current rewilding projects to 'rewild their minds'? #WorldRewildingDay 🏺 #Archaeology 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

Our First Years made our new bed in the early medieval roundhouse, based on archaeological and environmental evidence from Deer Park Farms, Co Antrim Sods, heavy hazel branches, lighter branches, then blankets … and Dr Anita Radini tried it out

“We have lumps of it out the back” Bags of bog iron ore, turf, wood, and our own charcoal made at UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture, all for projects and teaching students What a very odd place we have made on UCD’s campus 🙂

1/ Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland in January, with military support from France, Germany, and Nordic nations. Elite troops and F-35 jets with live ammunition were sent, and runways were to be blown up to prevent an invasion. ⬇️

UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture on a sunny day in March 2026, in three minutes! youtu.be/aW1mTlaRXVc?...

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

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

📰 #Medieval burials in a #Neolithic monument at Antequera, Spain indicates it was a sacred place across five millennia, shaping culture and rituals long after its original builders were gone. 🏺 #ArchaeologyNews via @medievalists.bsky.social www.medievalists.net/2026/03/two-...

Wooden beams from an early medieval fortification on the island of Ostrów Lednicki, Poland, preserved underwater #Woodensday Incised with lines, likely markers for the builders, they provide an unprecedented glimpse into medieval construction methods. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

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

This is an extraordinary St Patrick’s Day message from NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani He’s clearly been briefed by someone familiar with the Irish history of anti-colonialism and the Irish people’s overwhelming sympathy for Palestinians today

Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig oraibh St. Patrick’s Day blessings to you all, wherever you are in the world #StPatrick #PaddysDay www.irishtimes.com/opinion/edit...

Imagine you sent your little girl off to school, lunch box packed.. and hours later you were scrambling over rubble, hoping, praying that your beloved, darling child had survived? Imagine hearing the US President saying this ‘Maybe we shouldn’t even be there’ www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

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 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

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

Applications are now open to join our 2026 UCL Master's programme in human evolution. Covering the Palaeolithic, Palaeoanthropology & other key disciplines, the course is designed to equip you for a career in the deep human past. #PaPa 🦣📷https://tinyurl.com/5duy6twh

Which of these early medieval funky faces captures your #FridayFeeling? Spread from modern Germany to Russia, they suggest a shared artistic and spiritual tradition across Slavic central and eastern Europe during the Early Middle Ages. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Revealed: face of 75,000-year-old female #Neanderthal from cave where species buried their dead www.cam.ac.uk/stories/shan... #women #archaeology #paleontology #science

Fearmhíniú (mansplaining), báinín (flat white) and other Irish words for modern life

“Little pup” (Irish phrase, means immature, callow, entitled, and a bit useless)

The bid to establish a legally binding Sector Employment Order (SEO) for commercial archaeology in Ireland is heading for the Labour Court in April. If successful the order would impose minimum rates of pay, sick pay and pensions across the sector. You can read the submissions in the case here...

This is one of my favorite grave decorations in Arras. More personalized dioramas celebrating professions, please.

What a remarkable story and find !! www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a...

🏺🗃️ Also from yesterday, some cuneiform especially for @moudhy.bsky.social : a 4000 year old receipt for a single chicken donated to a temple 🐔

Congratulations to Dr Ryan Lash, of UCD School of Archaeology, recently appointed to the Royal Irish Academy’s “Young Academy Ireland”. The 21 members of YAI will now begin a four-year focused programme of interdisciplinary collaboration, policy engagement and international partnership. @ria.ie

NEW Pottery kiln excavated at Bronze Age Kalat-e Yavar, north-eastern Iran. Pottery produced here shares similarities with Iranian and Central Asian traditions, indicating cross-regional interaction between the Iranian Plateau and Central Asia. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

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‘Being Early Medieval: Encounters with Early Irish Society through Archaeology, History and Experimental Archaeology’ University of Chester, 2021-2022 research seminar. youtu.be/jFBXAivgd5s?...

The manuscript of the week is RIA MS 23 E 25, Lebor na hUidre / The Book of the Dun Cow. This 12th century manuscript is best known for containing the oldest extant version of the Táin Bó Cuailgne, or the Cattle Raid of Cooley, a renowned Irish epic.

Dunmore Cave is associated with a brutal massacre by the Vikings, and large quantities of bones were found in the dark depths. But does archaeology tell a different tale? Read all about it in our article www.tuatha.ie/dunmore-cave/

Iron pan from 10th century AD York, England #IronworkThursday Used by the Anglo-Scandinavian population, metal vessels such as this are rare and often fragmentary. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 📷 @yorkarchaeology.bsky.social / CC BY-NC 4.0 🏺 #Archaeology

Great, insightful article by @codohertynews.bsky.social on the reality of what's happening on #Peat in Ireland & the impact ... The export figures say it all www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

Repeatedly the UK government have sought to save smaller British industries, while ignoring the huge university sector which has enormous impacts, in a university city for example

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

We have an incredible new PhD placement opportunity to help support the development and curation of our major exhibition on the Norman Conquest, opening in October 2027. Learn more and apply through the link below! www.bl.uk/services/res...

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

A marginal figure drags an omitted portion of text into place in this copy of Thomas Hoccleve's Regiment of Princes (Arundel MS 38).