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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

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UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social · Feb 21

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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UCD School of Archaeology, Dublin @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social · 19d

"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

8th National Monuments Service annual archaeology conference

Within|Without: the archaeology of partitions

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UCD School of Archaeology, Dublin @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social · 19d

Speakers include Prof Aidan O'Sullivan, @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social, and other leading Irish and international researchers.

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National Museum of Ireland @nmireland.bsky.social · 22d

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...

Meet our education team at the Ploughing Championship 2025

Put your questions to the Irish Antiquities division at the Ploughing 2025

Minister of Culture, Communications and Sport Patrick O'Donovan met the Irish Antiquities division, at the Ploughing Championship 2025.

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UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social · Sep 4

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

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · Aug 29

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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Tuatha @tuatha.ie · Aug 22

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!

Dr Ryan Lash discusses the art and materiality of early medieval stone carving

Tuatha Members having a go at stone carving

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Tuatha @tuatha.ie · Aug 23

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.

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UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social · Feb 21

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UCD School of Archaeology, Dublin @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social · Aug 16

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. 👏🙏🙂

Steve and Andrea White at a plaque in UCD School of Archaeology acknowledging their financial support

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UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social · Aug 7

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:

Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · Aug 6

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...

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…

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UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social · Jul 29

Shane Smith, filmmaker, & colleagues are filming a movie in the UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture today, “Stone Elegy”

“A mythic tale of connection and survival set against the vivid landscapes of ancient Ireland.”

You can support the film on Instagram @thinveil_pictures

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National Museum of Ireland @nmireland.bsky.social · Jul 28

Drop-In Manuscript Makers!
📍 National Museum of Ireland – Kildare Street
📅 Wed 30 July| 13:30–15:30
🎟️ Free | No booking needed
Step into the world of early medieval scribes! Try calligraphy, explore ancient pigments & learn how treasures like the Book of Kells were made
www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · Jul 19

"Is this Ireland’s earliest hurley? A possible 7th century AD cammán from Skehacreggaun, Mungret, Co. Limerick"
earlymedievalarchaeologyproject.wordpress.com/2025/07/19/i...

#Hurling #Camogie #All-Ireland #Medieval #Ireland

A photoshop reconstruction showing an early medieval thatched house and the Skehacreggaun stick in the doorway

The Skehacreggaun, Mungret, Co. Limerick stick, made of willow, dated to the 7th century AD

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Tuatha @tuatha.ie · Jul 15

Join us for our Tuatha Talk Webinar: The Early Medieval Origins of Hurling & Camogie with Professor Aidan O'Sullivan

In this richly illustrated lecture, Professor @aidanosullivan.bsky.social of @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social will explore the evidence for the origins of hurling and its development.

A promotional image for our upcoming webinar The Early Medieval Origins of Hurling and Camogie – the main image features the reconstructed roundhouse at the Centre for Experimental Archaeology at UCD and a picture of the speaker Professor Aidan O Sullivan

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UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social · Jun 25

“Experimental archaeology: making, understanding, storytelling” www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress...

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UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social · Jun 25

Scientists Retrace 30,000-Year-Old Sea Voyage, in a Hollowed-Out Log
Japanese researchers turned to “experimental archaeology” to study how ancient humans navigated powerful ocean currents and migrated offshore

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/s...

Scientists Retrace 30,000-Year-Old Sea Voyage, in a Hollowed-Out Log

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · Jun 19

Delighted to welcome the “Medieval and Later Pottery Research Group” (of Britain and Ireland) to UCD School of Archaeology/Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture today, for one day of their 50th Anniversary Conference 18-20 June 2025

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UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social · Jun 8

Soooo tiny! (Anita Radini here) - looks a little bit annoyed - I hope he will survive

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UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social · Jun 7

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UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social · Jun 7

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UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social · Jun 7

UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture busy for UCD Festival 2025

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · Jun 7

Early Medieval People and Things (EMPAT) Project at UCD Festival Saturday 7th June, 12-6pm!

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Dr Edward Stewart @eddiecstewart.bsky.social · Jun 2

We're hoping this session may be of interest to those involved in field-based teaching both inside and outside of the academy - if you think we might be the session for you this TAG, drop us a line! @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social @mafs-scot.bsky.social @archscot.bsky.social

Dr Edward Stewart @eddiecstewart.bsky.social · Jun 2

Cole Juckette and I will be running a session at TAG York this winter on the topic of teaching theory in the field - call for papers opens today! tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/call-for-...

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(Dr) Rena Maguire @justrena.bsky.social · Jun 7

If you are around Dublin, do go to the big mega Open Day at @ucddublin.bsky.social and visit the @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social section. Good folks, great archaeology :)

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