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Archaeology Ireland Conference 2006

Archaeology Ireland, in association with UCD School of Archaeology, is hosting its annual conference on The Body, Dress and Costume on Saturday 18 November 2006, at Astra Hall, UCD Student Centre, Belfield, Dublin 4.

Bronze Age Forum Meeting

17-19 November 2006 The next meeting will be hosted by the School of Archaeology, University College Dublin. The meeting is open to anyone with an interest in the Bronze Age archaeology of Ireland, Britain and our nearest Continental neighbours. 20 minute papers are invited on new research and recent discoveries in any of these regions.

XML in Archaeology Course

XML for archaeologists: beyond the hype a workshop for all archaeologists
York, Thursday 28th September 2006

Dublin City Walls Conference

Friday 1st September, 2006
Dublin Castle Conference Centre
This conference will present, publicly for the first time, a number of innovative actions that have been undertaken since publication of the Dublin City Walls and Defences Conservation Plan.
More info.

Walled Towns Conference, Kilmallock August2006

Limerick County Council with the support of the Irish Walled Towns Network are organising a walled town conference in Kilmallock on Thursday 24th and Friday 25th of August. There is a wide and varied programme. For those interested in attending please book early.

A brochure will be available on the County Council web site.

Routes to the Past

'New Routes to the Past' seminar in Ireland The Archaeology Section of the National Roads Authority is pleased to announce its annual one-day seminar 'New Routes to the Past' which details archaeological discoveries on national road schemes throughout Ireland. Venue: The Chester Beatty Library, Dublin. Date: 31st August, 2006. Admission is free. Booking is essential.

Kingship and Sacrifice in Iron Age Ireland

Date: 17-June-2006

Time: 10:00 - 17:00

Conference: Kingship and Sacrifice in Iron Age Ireland

location: Archaeology & History

The National Museum has organised a one day Conference in conjunction with the exhibition Kingship and Sacrifice in Iron Age Ireland, which will open in the Museum of Archaeology and History, in late May.

The Conference will bring together specialists from a range of disciplines to examine recent significant finds of bog bodies in Ireland, placing them in their archaeological and historical context. Speakers will also address issues relating to the excavation and conservation of human remains.

Food: Culture and Identity

Archaeology Ireland in association with the UCD School of Archaeology

presents a one-day conference:

Food: Culture and Identity

Saturday 12 November 2005

Stillorgan Park Hotel, Co. Dublin

Archaeology Ireland

in association with the UCD School of Archaeology
presents a one-day conference:

Food: Culture and Identity

Saturday 12 November 2005
Stillorgan Park Hotel, Co. Dublin

Food is a hugely significant part of our culture and identity. Archaeology, anthropology, history, sociology and folklore can all be used to explore its many cultural, social and symbolic meanings, teasing out peoples different ideas about what food we should eat, how it should be prepared and consumed. It is strange, then, that the social role of food remains a neglected subject in archaeology. Traditionally, scholars have concentrated more on the economics and technology of food production, and less on where, how and why people ate different foods. In recent years, people have started to recognise how aspects of identity, status, gender and sociality were negotiated and performed through the choice of foods, their preparation, display, consumption, and ultimately even the disposal of human waste. This Archaeology Ireland conference will explore food in all its flavours, subtleties and uses, debating what food means to us as people, what it says about our ideas about plants and animals, and how we use it to build and nurture social relationships with each other.

8.309.15 Registration
9.159.30 Opening address
9.3010.10 Not limpets again! Rethinking Mesolithic meals

(UCD School of Archaeology)
10.1510.55 A grain of truth: from seed impressions to Bronze Age cereal foods

(Institute of Archaeology, University College London)

11.0011.25 Tea/Coffee

11.3012.10 Feasting and fighting consuming passions? Food and social relationships in the Celtic Iron Age

(School of Art History and Archaeology, University of Manchester)
12.1512.55 The social archaeology of meat consumption in early medieval Ireland

(Dept. of Archaeology, Queens University, Belfast)

13.0013.55 Lunch

14.0014.40 Feeding the city: reconstructing diet, lifestyle and health in medieval Dublin

(Discovery Programme)
14.4515.25 Food for thought: human remains, diet and cultural change

(Dept. of Archaeology, UCC)

15.3015.55 Tea/Coffee

16.0016.40 Sea-bird fowling as a food-provision strategy in Ireland and north-western Europe

(UCD School of Irish, Celtic Studies, Irish Folklore and Linguistics)
16.4517.25 Diet, taste and the civilising of appetite: a long-term view

(UCD School of Sociology)

Archaeology Ireland

in association with the UCD School of Archaeology
presents a one-day conference:

Food: Culture and Identity

Saturday 12 November 2005
Stillorgan Park Hotel, Co. Dublin

Food is a hugely significant part of our culture and identity. Archaeology, anthropology, history, sociology and folklore can all be used to explore its many cultural, social and symbolic meanings, teasing out peoples different ideas about what food we should eat, how it should be prepared and consumed. It is strange, then, that the social role of food remains a neglected subject in archaeology. Traditionally, scholars have concentrated more on the economics and technology of food production, and less on where, how and why people ate different foods. In recent years, people have started to recognise how aspects of identity, status, gender and sociality were negotiated and performed through the choice of foods, their preparation, display, consumption, and ultimately even the disposal of human waste. This Archaeology Ireland conference will explore food in all its flavours, subtleties and uses, debating what food means to us as people, what it says about our ideas about plants and animals, and how we use it to build and nurture social relationships with each other.

8.309.15 Registration
9.159.30 Opening address
9.3010.10 Not limpets again! Rethinking Mesolithic meals

(UCD School of Archaeology)
10.1510.55 A grain of truth: from seed impressions to Bronze Age cereal foods

(Institute of Archaeology, University College London)

11.0011.25 Tea/Coffee

11.3012.10 Feasting and fighting consuming passions? Food and social relationships in the Celtic Iron Age

(School of Art History and Archaeology, University of Manchester)
12.1512.55 The social archaeology of meat consumption in early medieval Ireland

(Dept. of Archaeology, Queens University, Belfast)

13.0013.55 Lunch

14.0014.40 Feeding the city: reconstructing diet, lifestyle and health in medieval Dublin

(Discovery Programme)
14.4515.25 Food for thought: human remains, diet and cultural change

(Dept. of Archaeology, UCC)

15.3015.55 Tea/Coffee

16.0016.40 Sea-bird fowling as a food-provision strategy in Ireland and north-western Europe

(UCD School of Irish, Celtic Studies, Irish Folklore and Linguistics)
16.4517.25 Diet, taste and the civilising of appetite: a long-term view

(UCD School of Sociology)

Archaeology Ireland

in association with the UCD School of Archaeology

presents a one-day conference:

Food: Culture and Identity

Saturday 12 November 2005

Stillorgan Park Hotel, Co. Dublin

Food is a hugely significant part of our culture and identity. Archaeology, anthropology, history, sociology and folklore can all be used to explore its many cultural, social and symbolic meanings, teasing out peoples different ideas about what food we should eat, how it should be prepared and consumed. It is strange, then, that the social role of food remains a neglected subject in archaeology. Traditionally, scholars have concentrated more on the economics and technology of food production, and less on where, how and why people ate different foods. In recent years, people have started to recognise how aspects of identity, status, gender and sociality were negotiated and performed through the choice of foods, their preparation, display, consumption, and ultimately even the disposal of human waste. This Archaeology Ireland conference will explore food in all its flavours, subtleties and uses, debating what food means to us as people, what it says about our ideas about plants and animals, and how we use it to build and nurture social relationships with each other.

Programme8.309.15 Registration

9.159.30 Opening address

9.3010.10 Not limpets again! Rethinking Mesolithic meals Graeme Warren (UCD School of Archaeology)

10.1510.55 A grain of truth: from seed impressions to Bronze Age cereal foods Meriel McClatchie (Institute of Archaeology, University College London)

11.0011.25 Tea/Coffee

11.3012.10 Feasting and fighting consuming passions? Food and social relationships in the Celtic Iron Age

Melanie Giles (School of Art History and Archaeology, University of Manchester)

12.1512.55 The social archaeology of meat consumption in early medieval Ireland

Finbar McCormick (Dept. of Archaeology, Queens University, Belfast)

13.0013.55 Lunch

14.0014.40 Feeding the city: reconstructing diet, lifestyle and health in medieval Dublin

Margaret Murphy and Michael Potterton (Discovery Programme)

14.4515.25 Food for thought: human remains, diet and cultural change

Barra Ó Donnabháin (Dept. of Archaeology, UCC)

15.3015.55 Tea/Coffee

16.0016.40 Sea-bird fowling as a food-provision strategy in Ireland and north-western Europe

Patricia Lysaght (UCD School of Irish, Celtic Studies, Irish Folklore and Linguistics)

16.4517.25 Diet, taste and the civilising of appetite: a long-term view

Stephen Mennell (UCD School of Sociology)

ArchaeoIogy Ireland gratefully acknowledges the assistance of the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government and The Heritage CouncilEarly booking advisableCost is Eu50 cpntact: Conference Secretary Archaeology Ireland P.O. Box 69, Bray Co. Wicklow Ireland, or contact Tel. 01-2765221 Fax 01-2765207 email: carol@wordwellbooks.com