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Sometimes our students have Viking boatyards as classrooms!

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Any guess of where we are today with our students at UCD School of Archaeology?

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Come and join us at UCD open day for postgraduate studies! We are in O’Reilly Hall!

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Lecture is ready! "The archaeology of trade in early medieval Ireland: Olive oil, slaves, wolfhounds & Irish butter? The archaeology of maritime trade between Ireland, Britain, Francia, and the Mediterranean..." Tuatha Talk online, 26th February 2025 A public event as part of our EMPAT project

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Hello and Welcome!! Registration for the Association for Environmental Archaeology #AEA Spring Conference in April 2025 is now open! Visit: envarch.net/conferences for registration details. #environmentalarchaeology #archaeology #palynology #archaeobotany #zooarchaeology #geoarchaeology

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We are officially coming off of X and focusing our efforts on fostering our archaeology community here! Please share our account around so that we can find our people! We look forward to meeting you all!🏺 #ancientbluesky #archaeology #classicsbluesky

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"It might have been like this? Experimental archaeology: Making, understanding, storytelling" by Prof Aidan O'Sullivan This talk was recorded as part of the Garrod research seminar series hosted by the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research on 11 November 2021. youtu.be/x9FIEoWrZyg?...

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A quick look inside our early medieval house reconstruction at UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture (CEAMC) at University College Dublin, afterwards destroyed by fire in 2019. youtube.com/shorts/2FyJz...

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Our field trip for the module #ARCH2017 Discovering Ireland Landscape at UCD School of Archaeology (coordinated by Dr Ryan Lash) ends in a glorious sunshine at Ballymoon Castle - can you imagine a better classroom for your studies? Thank you to our School tutors Ellie and Cara for the help today!

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These are our students taking the Module ARCH20170 Discovering Ireland Landscape learning about Brownshill Megalithic Portal Tomb - and Dr Ryan Lash (UCD School of Archaeology) introducing them to Ireland extraordinary past!

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What a wonderful start of the day with our very own Dr Ryan Lash leading a fantastic field trip for the module ARCH20170 Discovering Ireland Landscape! Glorious day, very engaging talk and equally engaged students! The module is open to all students @ucddublin.bsky.social

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Our latest MemberMail is out with the latest news and links to upcoming events. We cant wait for Prof Aidan O'Sullivan's upcoming talk 'Olive oil, slaves, wolfhounds & Irish butter? The archaeology of maritime trade between Ireland, Britain, Francia, and the Mediterranean in the Early Middle Ages'.

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Our Centre hosts a wide range of teaching and research activities! Here are some pictures!

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Permanent full time Lectureship in Archaeology (Museum Studies) in my lovely department at UCC! Join us! www.ucc.ie/en/future-hu...

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Our Centre hosts a wide range of teaching and research activities! Here are some pictures!

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Come work with us! 🚨 Job Opportunity: Ad Astra Fellow @UCD School of Classics / School of Art History and Cultural Policy !!! 🚨 CORRECTED APPLICATION DEADLINE - March 3!! 📍 Specializing in Digital Technologies & Antiquity 💼 Salary: €62,855–€99,533 👉 Apply now: my.corehr.com/pls/coreport...

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“What do we do at UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology and Material Culture (CEAMC)?” A short video created for UCD Earth Institute, for the EPA's #StoryOfYourStuff Schools' competition youtu.be/44_3AS28EiI?...

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In early medieval Ireland, according to early Irish law and practice, one was entitled to a bed, food, and water for washing. At UCD, we found that using a wooden bucket and granite pebbles, water can be brought to 81° Celsius (too hot for a bath!) inside 3 minutes! 1/ youtube.com/shorts/uJyqx...

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UCD’s Graduate Certificate in Experimental Archaeology and Material Culture (Online/Distance Learning) is a part-time, online, distance learning course designed to provide students with an understanding of rôle of experimental archaeology in understanding material culture hub.ucd.ie/usis/!W_HU_M...

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UCD’s Graduate Certificate in Experimental Archaeology and Material Culture (Online/Distance Learning) is a part-time, online, distance learning course designed to provide students with an understanding of rôle of experimental archaeology in understanding material culture hub.ucd.ie/usis/!W_HU_M...

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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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A great video by the wonderful @petesavin.bsky.social, of one of our firings of the replica Roman Pottery Kiln at Vindolanda Roman Fort and Museum in the Hadrian's Wall World Heritage Site. Experimental Archaeology 🏺 youtu.be/xkHPDl9XnsQ?...

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UCD MSc in Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture students rebuilding a Bronze Age cist excavated at Tevrin, Co Westmeath. The exercise was to not to test how to live heavy stones, but how a community might come together to achieve this task as part of the funeral rituals.

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Blacksmithing at UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture (CEAMC). Dr Brendan O’Neill and some of our MSc students drawing out some of the iron they made themselves from bog ore, to make knives youtu.be/tKssy1fpCGA?...

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“Early medieval houses in Ireland: some perspectives from archaeology, early Irish history, and experimental archaeology” Aidan O’Sullivan, Brendan O’Neill and Eileen Reilly (2017) earlymedievalarchaeologyproject.wordpress.com/2017/05/28/e...

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“Experimental Archaeology: Making, Understanding, Storytelling” (co-edited with Christina Soyoudzoglou) www.amazon.co.uk/Experimental...

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Graduate Certificate (online, distance learning) in Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture at UCD - typically 20 students every year, with participants across USA, Europe and Australia so far (USA attend online at 6am, students in Australia attend at 12am!!) www.ucd.ie/archaeology/...

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MSc/GradDip (on campus) or Graduate Certificate (online, distance learning) in Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture at UCD www.ucd.ie/archaeology/...

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Experimental Archaeology: Making, Understanding, Story-telling. Archaeopress, Oxford, 2019, (Edited by) Christina Souyoudzoglou-Haywood and Aidan O'Sullivan www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress...

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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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We are delighted to announce that the Bronze Age Forum will be hosted by UCD School of Archaeology, 14-16 Nov 2025, with kind support of @nationalmons.bsky.social, TII and @nmireland.bsky.social. For info see bronzeageforum2025.wordpress.com #BronzeAge #Archaeology

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I had an absolutely wonderful weekend at the @ayiaconference.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social. Brilliant talks, turn out, prizes, and experimental workshops @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social!

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