Abstract:The paper describes excavations carried out at Bay Farm, Carnlough, Co. Antrim, between 1977 and 1980, which revealed that a series of hill-washes had covered a number of Later Mesolithic chipping floors located some distance behind the shoreline which existed at that time. A limited number of retouched tools were recovered, many in an upper stratum above the chipping floors and dumps of debris. The material recovered suggested that knapping activities had concentrated on the production of blades. A refitting programme carried out by G. Johnson showed that the so-called 'Larnian' uniplane core was often a final product in the reduction sequence of a nodule of flint. The reason for their abundance was that they represented a point at which it was difficult to remove the preferred blade form and so the core was abandoned in favour of a new nodule.
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{"title":"Studies in the Significance of the Irish Stone Age : The Culture Sequence.","authors":"C. B. Whelan","doi":"10.1353/ria.2022.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ria.2022.0001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43075,"journal":{"name":"PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY SECTION C-ARCHAEOLOGY CELTIC STUDIES HISTORY LINGUISTICS LITERATURE","volume":"1182 1","pages":"115 - 137"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72741265","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Palynology of Ringneill Quay, a New Mesolithic Site in Co. Down, Northern Ireland","authors":"M. Morrison","doi":"10.1353/ria.2022.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ria.2022.0005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43075,"journal":{"name":"PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY SECTION C-ARCHAEOLOGY CELTIC STUDIES HISTORY LINGUISTICS LITERATURE","volume":"27 1","pages":"171 - 182"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84212325","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper presents the first detailed audit and analysis of radiocarbon-dated Mesolithic activity in Ireland. This provides a data set of 119 definite or possible sites and nearly 450 dates. This data set is reviewed to understand how changes in the character of archaeological activity and other biasing factors influence the distribution of radiocarbon dates across space and time. We present very different outcomes than previously published reviews, especially regarding the claimed impact of the 8200 cal BP climatic downturn. This is an outcome of the more reliable data set presented here. Some of the patterns identified are a product of sampling strategies, such as a peak in Earlier Mesolithic activity attributable to multiple dates from Mount Sandel. Others relate to restructuring of activity by hunter-gatherers leading to significant changes to the archaeological visibility of that activity at the change from Earlier to Later Mesolithic. Increasing numbers of radiocarbon dates at the end of the period, alongside the changing character of the archaeological evidence, may indicate low levels of population growth.
本文介绍了爱尔兰放射性碳定年中石器时代活动的第一次详细审计和分析。它提供了119个确定或可能的地点和近450个日期的数据集。对这些数据集进行回顾，以了解考古活动特征的变化和其他偏倚因素如何影响放射性碳年代在时空上的分布。我们提出了与之前发表的评论截然不同的结果，特别是关于8200 cal BP气候衰退的影响。这是这里提供的更可靠的数据集的结果。一些已确定的模式是采样策略的产物，例如中石器时代早期活动的高峰可归因于桑德尔山的多个日期。另一些则与狩猎采集者活动的重组有关，在中石器时代早期到晚期的变化中，狩猎采集者活动的考古可见性发生了重大变化。这一时期末期越来越多的放射性碳测年，加上考古证据的变化特征，可能表明人口增长水平较低。
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The preface to the Memoirs…of the Marquis of Clanricarde (1722) is a curious text. Written by Thomas O’Sullevane, ostensibly in response to the 1720 printing of the ‘Short view of the state and condition of the kingdom of Ireland’ by Edward Hyde, earl of Clarendon, the preface challenged ‘Protestant’ narratives of Catholic butchery in the 1640s. For the most part, O’Sullevane’s claims were supported by a sustained consideration of historical evidence, an uncommon feature in the contemporary discourse. His insights have had little impact, however, on how historians interpret the 1640s. Yet, Celtic scholars frequently invoke O’Sullevane’s preface to describe the schooling of Irish bardic poets—without reference to its broader purpose. The aim of this article is to historicise O’Sullevane’s work and to show how contemporary philological and antiquarian-minded investigations shaped O’Sullevane’s portrayal of the Irish past, especially the Irish bardic world.
《克莱里卡德侯爵回忆录》(1722)的序言是一篇奇怪的文章。由Thomas O ' sullevane撰写，表面上是对1720年出版的爱德华·海德(Edward Hyde)的《爱尔兰王国的状态和状况》的回应，克拉伦登伯爵，序言挑战了“新教”对1640年代天主教屠杀的叙述。在很大程度上，O 'Sullevane的主张得到了对历史证据的持续考虑的支持，这在当代话语中是不常见的特征。然而，他的见解对历史学家如何解读17世纪40年代几乎没有影响。然而，凯尔特学者经常引用O 'Sullevane的序言来描述爱尔兰吟游诗人的学校教育，而没有提及其更广泛的目的。本文的目的是将O 'Sullevane的作品历史化，并展示当代文献学和古物研究是如何塑造O 'Sullevane对爱尔兰过去，特别是爱尔兰诗歌世界的描绘的。
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A hoard containing five gold lunulae of Early Bronze Age date was found in north Co. Kildare in 1859. Although this hoard is better recorded than most others of the period, it has been mistakenly provenanced. This paper examines all relevant archival sources to re-establish the find place, the circumstances of discovery, the dispersal of the hoard, and its reconstitution. Most of the lunulae in this hoard belong to a particular sub-type which is examined and discussed. Fragmentation and manipulation of lunulae during their period of use and prior to deposition are also discussed. An appendix listing 76 extant lunulae from Ireland is also provided, with notes on new or corrected provenances where available.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.3318/PRIC.2006.106.1.1
R. Cleary, N. Finlay, Sandra A. Mc Keown, M. Mccarthy, Meriel Mc Clatchie
Abstract:The site was first detected in an aerial survey of the Bruff region as a large oval enclosure, visible as a crop mark. Geophysical prospection techniques indicated evidence of archaeological remains inside and outside the enclosure. The excavation concentrated on the enclosing element and part of the interior. The excavated area was small relative to the size of the site and produced evidence for sequential use from the early-sixth to early-eleventh centuries AD. The settlement included sixth century circular houses that appear to have been unenclosed and the construction of a double palisade fence around the site in the eighth-ninth century. Pits within the enclosure have similar dates to the palisade and others date to the early-eleventh century. A trackway on the west side of the enclosure pre-dated the palisade fence and was in use from the seventh century. Upcast from digging the footings for the palisade fence covered part of the trackway surface. The site included a second trackway and part of an enclosure ditch dating from the late-tenth to early-eleventh century. The site had a long period of use and the settlement may have been relatively continuous. Evidence for the economy was provided by the animal bones that showed a reliance on cattle and charred plant remains confirmed barley cultivation. Iron working debris, albeit limited, suggested some industrial activity on the site.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.3318/PRIC.2002.102.1.137
M. Comber
Abstract:Excavations in 1948 and 1949 identified a two-phase bivallate ringfort of the Early Historic period at Rathgurreen, Co. Galway. Approximately a quarter of the site was dug, comprising the south-western quadrant and the entrance area. Well-preserved dumps of animal bone and sea-shells were discovered throughout the excavated area, while a number of different crafts (such as the production of purple dye) were represented in the artefactual assemblage. The latter also included a fragment of an oil lamp of Roman origin. The site is just one of over thirty ringforts on the Maree peninsula, although it is probably the best preserved of these. Radiocarbon analyses date the occupation of the site from the fourth or fifth century AD to at least the ninth century.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.3318/PRIAC.2011.112.08
E. Murray, F. McCormick, C. Newman, S. Hamilton‐Dyer, G. Plunkett
Abstract:A series of shell middens and miscellaneous habitation sites, located in a dune system in west County Galway, have been exposed and are slowly disappearing through wind, wave and surface erosion. In 1992 a project was initiated to record, sample and date some of these sites and the radiocarbon results demonstrated that activity in the area spanned the Early Bronze Age through to the Iron Age and into the early and post medieval periods. This preliminary fieldwork was succeeded by the excavation of three of the better-preserved sites; a Bronze Age midden in 1994 and two early medieval sites (the subject of this paper), in 1997. The medieval sites dated to the late-seventh to ninth century ad and were represented by a sub-circular stone hut with a hearth and the charred remains of a more ephemeral wooden tent-like structure. The discovery of a bronze penannular brooch of ninth/tenth century date at the latter site would suggest that the settlements are not the remains of transient, impoverished peoples of the lower classes of society, eking out a living along the coast. The calcareous sands ensured good preservation of organic remains—fish and mammal bones, charred cereal grains, seeds and seaweed, and marine molluscs. Analyses of these indicated exploitation of marine resources but, otherwise, were comparable with the diet and economy represented by assemblages from established contemporary site types of the period. Unlike raths, crannógs and monastic settlements, however, the volume of material represented at the Galway sites was slight, despite the excellent preservation conditions. A range of seasonal indicators also suggested temporary habitation: probable late-spring/-summer occupation of the stone hut site and autumnal occupancy of the second, less substantial site. It is suggested that the machair plain, beside which the dunes are located, was most probably the attraction for settlers to the area and was exploited as an alternative pasture for the seasonal grazing of livestock.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.3318/priac.2020.120.09
Annracháin
Abstract:Comhbhá an dúlra is the name given to the idea that Nature acts in sympathy with rightful rulers. It is one of the most enduring tropes of Gaelic literature from earliest times. If the correct ruler was in place and acted justly, Nature was deemed to flourish and the weather would conspire to support him. If he died, suffered mishap or misbehaved, Nature would be held to wither and even the weather would deteriorate. Modern poets, whose work is examined in this paper, have taken up the trope of comhbhá an dúlra in intriguing and fruitful ways. Their work often display a high degree of irony as they reflect on non-traditional forms of relationship between humans and the natural world. In doing so they demonstrate the malleability and acuity of the modern Gaelic poetic tradition, which now challenges the supremacy of humans, sometimes in an ecocritical spirit, while reconfiguring some of the most deeply rooted Gaelic images.
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