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This book investigates the archaeological evidence for crafts and
production in early medieval Ireland, AD 400-1100, with a
particular focus on the extensive excavated evidence from rural
secular and ecclesiastical settlements. The volume firstly provides
an overview of the social and ideological contexts of crafts and
technologies in early Ireland. It then outlines the extant evidence
specifically for iron-working, non-ferrous metalworking, glass,
enamel and millefiori, bone, antler and horn, and stone working,
and characterises each craft practice in terms of scale, outputs
and implications for society. Tables provide additional information
on wood craft and pottery. The book then provides a detailed review
of the use of different materials in dress and ornament, touches on
cloth and textile production, and explores how social identities
were performed through objects and material practices. The book
then provides a voluminous site gazetteer accounting for all
evidence for craft and production on hundreds of early medieval
settlements, with numerous tables of data, site plans, artefact
drawings and photographs and an extensive bibliography. The book is
based on the work of the Early Medieval Archaeology Project (EMAP),
which was funded through the Irish Heritage Council and Department
of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht's INSTAR programme, a
collaborative research project carried out by University College
Dublin and Queens University Belfast which reviewed all
archaeological excavations in Ireland between c.1930-2012. This
particular book, building on EMAP's previous studies of dwellings
and settlements, and agriculture and economy, provides the baseline
for a generation of studies of early medieval crafts and production
in Ireland in its northwest European contexts.
This book describes, collates and analyses the archaeological,
zooarchaeological and palaeobotanical evidence for agriculture,
livestock and cereal production in early medieval Ireland, AD
400-1100, particularly as revealed through archaeological
excavations in Ireland since 1930. It is based on the research of
the Heritage Council-funded Early Medieval Archaeology Project
(EMAP), a collaborative research project between University College
Dublin and Queens University Belfast, supported by the Irish
government Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.
Providing a range of insights into farmsteads and field enclosures,
livestock management (particularly of cattle) and crop cultivation,
along with a series of datasets presented in tables and gazetteer
descriptions, it is arguably amongst the most detailed, focused and
comprehensive analyses of early agricultural practice in its social
and economic contexts in Europe, and the wider world.
This monograph provides a comprehensive synthesis and discussion of
the archaeology of early medieval settlement in Ireland. Drawing on
both published and unpublished material, it sets out an
interpretive, analytical text and a gazetteer of some 241 key early
medieval settlements revealed through archaeological excavations.
Analysis focuses on four major areas: early medieval houses and
other buildings; settlement enclosures; agriculture as part of the
wider settlement landscape; and crafts and industrial activities on
early medieval settlements.
Experimental Archaeology: Making, Understanding, Story-telling is
based on the proceedings of a two-day workshop on experimental
archaeology at the Irish Institute of Hellenic Studies at Athens in
2017, in collaboration with UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology
and Material Culture. Scholars, artists and craftspeople explore
how people in the past made things, used and discarded them, from
prehistory to the Middle Ages. The papers include discussions of
the experimental archaeological reconstruction and likely past
experience of medieval houses, and also about how people cast
medieval bronze brooches, or sharpened Bronze Age swords, made gold
ornaments, or produced fresco wall paintings using their knowledge,
skills and practices. The production of ceramics is explored
through a description of the links between Neolithic pottery and
textiles, through the building and testing of a Bronze Age Cretan
pottery kiln, and through the replication and experience of Minoan
figurines. The papers in this volume show that experimental
archaeology can be about making, understanding, and storytelling
about the past, in the present.
The Oxford Handbook of Wetland Archaeology is the most
comprehensive survey of global wetland archaeology ever published.
Well known for the spectacular quality of its surviving evidence,
from both an archaeological and environmental perspective, wetland
archaeology enables scholars to investigate and reconstruct past
people's dwellings, landscapes, material culture, and daily lives
in great detail. Through concise essays written by some of the
world's leading scholars in the field, this Handbook describes the
key principles, methodologies, and revealing results of past and
present archaeological investigations of wetland environments. The
volume provides unique insights into past human interactions with
lakes, bogs, rivers, and coastal marshlands across the world from
prehistory to modern times. Opening with a detailed introduction by
the editors, the Handbook is divided into seven parts and contains
54 essays and over 230 photographs, figures, maps, and graphs.
Ireland is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by seas that
link it to a wider world. From earliest times, its peoples have
lived beside its shorelines, bays and estuaries, navigating seaways
and gathering diverse resources. Since Ireland's first peoples
arrived - Mesolithic hunter-gatherers who came by boat about 10,000
years ago - the sea has been of enormous cultural, economic and
ideological significance in its long story. In this book, two of
Ireland's leading maritime archaeologists explore rich and
intriguing evidence for its past maritime resources and traditions
and how these changed through prehistory, the Middle Ages and up
until the present day. Using archaeological discoveries, linked
with historical and environmental evidence, they reveal the often
overlooked cultural heritage of Ireland's coastal landscapes in
their European and Atlantic contexts. This book will appeal to
anyone interested in Ireland's cultural, environmental and maritime
inheritance - and to anyone who has walked along this island's
shoreline and wondered about its peoples and its past.
This series of short volumes, each devoted to a theme, which is the
subject of contemporary debate in archaeology, ranges from issues
in theory and method to aspects of world archaeology. Wetland
archaeology has provided some of the most exciting discoveries in
world archaeology, from bog bodies in northern Europe, to
prehistoric and medieval wetland dwellings in central and western
Europe, New Zealand, Japan and the Pacific Northwest. Arguably,
however, the amount of evidence from these sites and the need for
intense multidisciplinary scientific analysis, allied to a general
tendency towards empiricist research, has led to wetland
archaeology being isolated from current theoretical debates.
"Rethinking Wetland Archaeology" shows how wetland studies can be
contextualised within broader geographical, cultural and
theoretical frameworks. It discusses how wetland archaeological
discoveries can be understood in terms of past people's perception
and understanding of landscape, which was not only a source of
economic benefit, but a storehouse of, and a metaphor for, cultural
values and beliefs. It argues that archaeologists interested in the
temporal rhythms of life, and in cultural biographies of place and
objects, should look again at the astonishingly detailed narratives
produced by wetland archaeology. Finally, it considers the past and
future role of wetland archaeologists in contemporary political and
social discourses.
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