UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture
@experimentarchaeol.bsky.social
UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology and Material Culture: “Making, Understanding, Storytelling”
https://www.ucd.ie/archaeology/ceamc/
Posts by Aidan O’Sullivan & Anita Radini, at UCD School of Archaeology
https://www.ucd.ie/archaeology/ceamc/
Posts by Aidan O’Sullivan & Anita Radini, at UCD School of Archaeology
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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
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 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
Lots of seminars, workshops, practicals every Friday or also options - if online -to travel to Ireland for a week’s crafts & making
February 21, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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
Lots of seminars, workshops, practicals every Friday or also options - if online -to travel to Ireland for a week’s crafts & making
Vote NMI!! The “Words on the Wave” exhibition and its project is stunning!!!!
We’re nominated for Research Project of the Year! 🎉
Vote for Words on the Wave and help us celebrate Ireland’s medieval heritage:
👉 www.museum.ie/en-IE/News/V...
#MedievalIreland #IrishArchaeology
Vote for Words on the Wave and help us celebrate Ireland’s medieval heritage:
👉 www.museum.ie/en-IE/News/V...
#MedievalIreland #IrishArchaeology
December 14, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Vote NMI!! The “Words on the Wave” exhibition and its project is stunning!!!!
UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture celebrated in one of UCD’s new banners!
This image is inspired by a passage in the Old Irish ‘Immram Curaig Mael Dúin’, where the hero enters a house to see gold and silver brooches on the walls
This brooch made by Brendan O’Neill
This image is inspired by a passage in the Old Irish ‘Immram Curaig Mael Dúin’, where the hero enters a house to see gold and silver brooches on the walls
This brooch made by Brendan O’Neill
December 3, 2025 at 6:02 PM
UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture celebrated in one of UCD’s new banners!
This image is inspired by a passage in the Old Irish ‘Immram Curaig Mael Dúin’, where the hero enters a house to see gold and silver brooches on the walls
This brooch made by Brendan O’Neill
This image is inspired by a passage in the Old Irish ‘Immram Curaig Mael Dúin’, where the hero enters a house to see gold and silver brooches on the walls
This brooch made by Brendan O’Neill
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These are repeating courses! @nordikkraft.bsky.social and I are heading to graduation after our online graduate certificate in Experimental Archaeology and Material Culture! Distance Learning for the win!
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
Lots of seminars, workshops, practicals every Friday or also options - if online -to travel to Ireland for a week’s crafts & making
December 1, 2025 at 12:25 AM
These are repeating courses! @nordikkraft.bsky.social and I are heading to graduation after our online graduate certificate in Experimental Archaeology and Material Culture! Distance Learning for the win!
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“At Samhain, people believed the veil between this world and the other grew thin, when fairies moved through the land, and the dead drew near.”
Prof Aidan O’Sullivan @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social
📷 Filmed at @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social
youtube.com/shorts/aCnDu...
Prof Aidan O’Sullivan @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social
📷 Filmed at @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social
youtube.com/shorts/aCnDu...
October 31, 2025 at 4:43 PM
“At Samhain, people believed the veil between this world and the other grew thin, when fairies moved through the land, and the dead drew near.”
Prof Aidan O’Sullivan @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social
📷 Filmed at @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social
youtube.com/shorts/aCnDu...
Prof Aidan O’Sullivan @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social
📷 Filmed at @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social
youtube.com/shorts/aCnDu...
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Professor AidanO’Sullivan, Head of School of Archaeology at UCD, brings history to life, carving this year’s Irish Halloween Jack O’Lantern from a turnip.
@aidanosullivan.bsky.social
@aidanosullivan.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Professor AidanO’Sullivan, Head of School of Archaeology at UCD, brings history to life, carving this year’s Irish Halloween Jack O’Lantern from a turnip.
@aidanosullivan.bsky.social
@aidanosullivan.bsky.social
A traditional Irish ghost turnip for Halloween #OicheShamhna #Samhain #Halloween #thinveilbetweentheworlds #NaSídhe
October 29, 2025 at 11:22 AM
A traditional Irish ghost turnip for Halloween #OicheShamhna #Samhain #Halloween #thinveilbetweentheworlds #NaSídhe
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This was one my best, we’re carving Irish Halloween turnips today, in homage to the ur-turnip from 1943 from Ballyfin, Co Donegal, in National Museum of Ireland
@nmireland.bsky.social
#Halloween #Samhain #OicheShamhna
@nmireland.bsky.social
#Halloween #Samhain #OicheShamhna
October 27, 2025 at 8:33 AM
This was one my best, we’re carving Irish Halloween turnips today, in homage to the ur-turnip from 1943 from Ballyfin, Co Donegal, in National Museum of Ireland
@nmireland.bsky.social
#Halloween #Samhain #OicheShamhna
@nmireland.bsky.social
#Halloween #Samhain #OicheShamhna
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An Irish ghost turnip - Halloween Jack-o-Lantern, everytime I make one they look different … 😳
October 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM
An Irish ghost turnip - Halloween Jack-o-Lantern, everytime I make one they look different … 😳
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Really nice coverage on our research on ancient scents by @sciam.bsky.social and @gayoung.bsky.social
🏺🧪👩🔬
www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...
🏺🧪👩🔬
www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...
History Smelled. Here’s How We’re Sniffing It Out
How can reconstructing long-lost smells of ancient artifacts help us connect with the past?
www.scientificamerican.com
October 28, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Really nice coverage on our research on ancient scents by @sciam.bsky.social and @gayoung.bsky.social
🏺🧪👩🔬
www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...
🏺🧪👩🔬
www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...
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Back in the winter of 2012, it says here, we decided to position UCD School of Archaeology as a “leading centre for experimental archaeology in Europe.”
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October 21, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Back in the winter of 2012, it says here, we decided to position UCD School of Archaeology as a “leading centre for experimental archaeology in Europe.”
… 🙂
… 🙂
Dr Anita Radini is growing dye-plants at UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture, such as madder, woad and weld.
And they’ll be used by our own students in dyeing textiles
It’s time to apply for our online Grad Cert or our on-campus MSc/GradDip Experimental Archaeology
And they’ll be used by our own students in dyeing textiles
It’s time to apply for our online Grad Cert or our on-campus MSc/GradDip Experimental Archaeology
October 17, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Dr Anita Radini is growing dye-plants at UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture, such as madder, woad and weld.
And they’ll be used by our own students in dyeing textiles
It’s time to apply for our online Grad Cert or our on-campus MSc/GradDip Experimental Archaeology
And they’ll be used by our own students in dyeing textiles
It’s time to apply for our online Grad Cert or our on-campus MSc/GradDip Experimental Archaeology
The bed in our early medieval house is ready for its blankets …
October 17, 2025 at 4:24 PM
The bed in our early medieval house is ready for its blankets …
UCD Archaeology students doing their experimental archaeology practicals today, as they do every Friday at CEAMC! This week, stone carving and flint knapping with Dr Anita Radini and Dr Ryan Lash, assisted ably by Lucy Robinson and Deborah Buchanan.
October 17, 2025 at 4:18 PM
UCD Archaeology students doing their experimental archaeology practicals today, as they do every Friday at CEAMC! This week, stone carving and flint knapping with Dr Anita Radini and Dr Ryan Lash, assisted ably by Lucy Robinson and Deborah Buchanan.
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Ancient DNA from Neolithic chewing gum reveals how Europe’s first farmers lived, worked, and ate. Birch tar preserves the intimacy of their daily lives in astonishing molecular detail. #Archaeology #Neolithic #AncientDNA #Anthropology www.anthropology.net/p/the-resin-...
The Resin That Remembered: How Ancient Birch Tar Is Rewriting the Story of Neolithic Life
New biomolecular evidence from prehistoric chewing gum reveals the intimate daily habits, diets, and toolmaking ingenuity of Europe’s first farmers.
www.anthropology.net
October 15, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Ancient DNA from Neolithic chewing gum reveals how Europe’s first farmers lived, worked, and ate. Birch tar preserves the intimacy of their daily lives in astonishing molecular detail. #Archaeology #Neolithic #AncientDNA #Anthropology www.anthropology.net/p/the-resin-...
Delighted to welcome Assoc. Prof Roy Flechner’s 3rd year class on “History from below: Rural life in the middle ages (HIS32800)”, to our Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture, where we explored daily life and work in an early medieval Irish rath
October 15, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Delighted to welcome Assoc. Prof Roy Flechner’s 3rd year class on “History from below: Rural life in the middle ages (HIS32800)”, to our Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture, where we explored daily life and work in an early medieval Irish rath
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"Within|Without: The Archaeology of Partitions", a conference exploring how partitions shape who we are. Join a day of dialogue on how we divide and connect across time.
🗓 Sat 18 Oct 2025, 9:15–17:30
📍 Edmund Burke Theatre, Trinity College Dublin
🌍 In-person and online: 👉 bit.ly/Within-Without
🗓 Sat 18 Oct 2025, 9:15–17:30
📍 Edmund Burke Theatre, Trinity College Dublin
🌍 In-person and online: 👉 bit.ly/Within-Without
8th National Monuments Service annual archaeology conference
Within|Without: the archaeology of partitions
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September 19, 2025 at 11:08 AM
"Within|Without: The Archaeology of Partitions", a conference exploring how partitions shape who we are. Join a day of dialogue on how we divide and connect across time.
🗓 Sat 18 Oct 2025, 9:15–17:30
📍 Edmund Burke Theatre, Trinity College Dublin
🌍 In-person and online: 👉 bit.ly/Within-Without
🗓 Sat 18 Oct 2025, 9:15–17:30
📍 Edmund Burke Theatre, Trinity College Dublin
🌍 In-person and online: 👉 bit.ly/Within-Without
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Speakers include Prof Aidan O'Sullivan, @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social, and other leading Irish and international researchers.
September 19, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Speakers include Prof Aidan O'Sullivan, @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social, and other leading Irish and international researchers.
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Come and meet the team from the National Museum of Ireland at the National Ploughing Championships, Screggan, Tullamore, Co. Offaly, taking place from 16th to 18th September 2025.
www.museum.ie/en-IE/News/T...
www.museum.ie/en-IE/News/T...
September 16, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Come and meet the team from the National Museum of Ireland at the National Ploughing Championships, Screggan, Tullamore, Co. Offaly, taking place from 16th to 18th September 2025.
www.museum.ie/en-IE/News/T...
www.museum.ie/en-IE/News/T...
UCD 2025/26 academic year is beginning!
First up, ARCH30500: Experimental Archaeology & Ancient Technologies led by Dr Brendan O’Neill
Our third years (and some MSc students) on a week long course making pottery, casting bronze, making huts in one day using hazel and natural ties, etc
First up, ARCH30500: Experimental Archaeology & Ancient Technologies led by Dr Brendan O’Neill
Our third years (and some MSc students) on a week long course making pottery, casting bronze, making huts in one day using hazel and natural ties, etc
September 4, 2025 at 5:53 AM
UCD 2025/26 academic year is beginning!
First up, ARCH30500: Experimental Archaeology & Ancient Technologies led by Dr Brendan O’Neill
Our third years (and some MSc students) on a week long course making pottery, casting bronze, making huts in one day using hazel and natural ties, etc
First up, ARCH30500: Experimental Archaeology & Ancient Technologies led by Dr Brendan O’Neill
Our third years (and some MSc students) on a week long course making pottery, casting bronze, making huts in one day using hazel and natural ties, etc
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Interested in experimental archaeology & material culture? This online graduate certificate at UCD is just the best fun - and you can do it from your own home!
hub.ucd.ie/usis/!W_HU_M...
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August 29, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Interested in experimental archaeology & material culture? This online graduate certificate at UCD is just the best fun - and you can do it from your own home!
hub.ucd.ie/usis/!W_HU_M...
hub.ucd.ie/usis/!W_HU_M...
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A wonderful day with Tuatha Members at @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social, where Dr Brendan O'Neill led a workshop on casting Bronze Age axes, and Dr Ryan Lash had us carving early medieval cross slabs and cursing stones.
A truly engaging, fun, and immersive day!
Looking forward to the next outing!
A truly engaging, fun, and immersive day!
Looking forward to the next outing!
August 22, 2025 at 8:22 PM
A wonderful day with Tuatha Members at @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social, where Dr Brendan O'Neill led a workshop on casting Bronze Age axes, and Dr Ryan Lash had us carving early medieval cross slabs and cursing stones.
A truly engaging, fun, and immersive day!
Looking forward to the next outing!
A truly engaging, fun, and immersive day!
Looking forward to the next outing!
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It was a fantastic experience for us to get hands-on with casting an Early Bronze Age axe at the @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social
Dr Brendan O'Neill and Tuatha Members went through the whole process, from creating the clay tuyere & crucible to using the bellows to the all-important pour at the end.
Dr Brendan O'Neill and Tuatha Members went through the whole process, from creating the clay tuyere & crucible to using the bellows to the all-important pour at the end.
August 23, 2025 at 9:36 AM
It was a fantastic experience for us to get hands-on with casting an Early Bronze Age axe at the @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social
Dr Brendan O'Neill and Tuatha Members went through the whole process, from creating the clay tuyere & crucible to using the bellows to the all-important pour at the end.
Dr Brendan O'Neill and Tuatha Members went through the whole process, from creating the clay tuyere & crucible to using the bellows to the all-important pour at the end.
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Delighted to welcome Steve and Andrea White to UCD School of Archaeology and to thank them for their generous philanthropic support of our UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture (CEAMC), through their Mary Agnes McDonnell LeBlanc donation. 👏🙏🙂
August 16, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Delighted to welcome Steve and Andrea White to UCD School of Archaeology and to thank them for their generous philanthropic support of our UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture (CEAMC), through their Mary Agnes McDonnell LeBlanc donation. 👏🙏🙂
Only the future is unchangeable; the past is constantly changing.
How ongoing research and new methods continually change our image of the past, our images of the past in the truest sense of the word.
The shaman with many faces:
How ongoing research and new methods continually change our image of the past, our images of the past in the truest sense of the word.
The shaman with many faces:
Nur die Zukunft ist unveränderlich, die Vergangenheit wandelt sich stetig.
Wie andauernde Forschung und neue Methoden unser Bild der Vergangenheit, unsere Bilder der Vergangenheit im Wortsinne, immer wieder verändern.
Die Schamanin mit den vielen Gesichtern: trowelandpen.com/2025/07/30/v...
Wie andauernde Forschung und neue Methoden unser Bild der Vergangenheit, unsere Bilder der Vergangenheit im Wortsinne, immer wieder verändern.
Die Schamanin mit den vielen Gesichtern: trowelandpen.com/2025/07/30/v...
Von wegen blond: Wie anhaltende Forschung andauernd unser Bild der Vergangenheit verändert
Aus einer gewissen Affinität zu Comics, zu solchen mit archäologischen Themen sowieso, habe ich an dieser Stelle ja keinen Hehl gemacht. Da sollte es wenig wundern, dass ich, natürlich, auch an der…
trowelandpen.com
August 7, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Only the future is unchangeable; the past is constantly changing.
How ongoing research and new methods continually change our image of the past, our images of the past in the truest sense of the word.
The shaman with many faces:
How ongoing research and new methods continually change our image of the past, our images of the past in the truest sense of the word.
The shaman with many faces: