bewattled.bsky.social
Medievalist based in Limerick with interests in Ireland and the Irish church in a European context - St Patrick through to King John and all folk in between.
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Mary Immaculate Limerick-sporadically and often informally when people ask.
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Thank you!
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I was always told they didn’t use granite to hear fulachr fia because hot granite can explode? What happened to the pebbles?
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If we can’t, I’ll do a voice over on the PowerPoint and people can get it from me after. Thanks everyone for reposting
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In my view, part of reason is that archaeologists are letting geneticists tell much of the story, forgetting it is a separate discipline with its own imperatives and goals. We focus on incorporating their conclusions without querying the assumptions inherent in their chosen genetic methodologies.
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This is going to be very interesting. DNA studies began with mitochondria (Daughters of Eve) because it is simpler form than Y chromosomes and thus easier to analyse (but with much less well defined groupings). I look forward to learning how they have managed to narrow it to quasi dynastic groups
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As a state we should be giving funding to Céide because it’s important for our sense of ourselves and our heritage as residents of this island and as Europeans. Looking for World Heritage designation is about the tourism market and bragging rights in that relatively small discipline in my opinion.
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Similar to ?Dacre bears in Cumbria? (Am I remembering Dacre right? Two/three freestanding statues in churchyard?