IAI Autumn Conference 2008
New Horizons:
Advances in technical methods in Irish archaeology
17 - 19 October 2008
Clarion Hotel Sligo
This conference will present the
most recent technical applications developed and used in archaeological and
landscape surveys, excavation, recording, analysis (including materials and
environmental analyses), dating, archiving and visualisation. Papers will seek
to present individual techniques and methodologies and/or case study examples
with particularly successful results.
* Admission Prices *
Members
€50/£35
Non-members €65/£45
Students/OAPs €35/£25
Non-members €65/£45
Students/OAPs €35/£25
Programme Details (TBC)
Friday 17th October
| 9.15 – 9.30 | Introduction to the Conference |
| 9.30 – 9.50 | Whole Horizon Analysis and Megalithic Monument Siting Criteria |
| Mike Wilson | |
| 9.50 – 10.10 | Preservation in-situ of archaeological remains: a case study from Marlhill, County Tipperary |
| Richard
O'Brien National Roads Authority |
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| 10.10 – 10.30 | Archaeomagnetic dating of a medieval pottery kiln in Kilkenny City |
| Emma Devine Archaeological director of Kilkenny Archaeology |
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| 10.30 – 10.50 | Discovering Early Technology: Analysis of Archaeological Materials in an Irish Context |
| Angela
Wallace Connacht Archaeological Services |
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| 10.50 – 11.00 | Discussion |
| 11.00 – 11.30 | Tea/Coffee |
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| 11.30 – 11.50 | Conversations with Readers: an informal response to archaeological publications by the National Roads Authority |
| Martin Jones National Roads Authority |
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| 11.50 – 12.10 | The Itrax Core Scanner: archaeological and palaeoenvironmental potential |
| Stephen Davies
& Jonathan Turner UCD School of Archaeology & UCD School of Geography |
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| 12.10 – 12.30 | Developing Tephrachronoloy and Stable Isotope analysis to examine the relationship between climate change and human activities in the wetlands of Ireland |
| Jane Whitaker and Dr. Nick Branch Archaeological Development Services & Royal Holloway University London |
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| 12.30 – 12.50 | A smiths' job: a methodology for its investigation |
| Dr Effie Photos-Jones Scottish Analytical Services for Art and Archaeology (SASAA) |
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| 12.50 – 1.00 | Discussion |
| 1.00 – 2.00 | Lunch |
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| 2.00 – 2.20 | Tillage Crops, Geophysics and the ghost ridges of Co. Galway |
| Jerry O'Sullivan National Roads Authority |
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| 2.20 – 2.40 | Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) dating at Ballynamuck cave, Co. Waterford and Hook Head, Co. Wexford |
| Cóilín O Drisceoil Archaeological director of Kilkenny Archaeology |
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| 2.40 – 3.10 | Testing Time: creating and investigating an archive of radiocarbon dates from the archaeological record |
| P. Barratt, N. Whitehouse, R. Schulting, R. McLaughlin, M. McClatchie, & A Bogaard | |
| 3.10 – 3.30 | Assessing Past Landscape Structure using Palaeoecological Data: recent progress using modern analogue data |
| N. Whitehouse, D. Smith, J. Bunting | |
| 3.30 – 3.50 | Early Medieval Archaeology Project (EMAP): dealing with data and enabling knowledge |
| Aidan O'Sullivan, Finbar
McCormick, Thom Kerr, Lorcan
Harney, Robert Sands and Conor McDermott, Matt Seaver, (CRDS) Rob O Hara (ACS) UCD School of Archaeology, School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology, QUB |
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| 3.50 – 4.00 | Discussion |
| 4.00 – 4.30 | Tea/Coffee |
| 4.30 – 6.00 | Ordinary General Meeting |
| 7.30 | Conference Dinner - Clarion Hotel Sligo (£/€pp TBC) |
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Saturday 18th October
| 9.30 – 9.50 | Ground Penetrating Radar Surveys of Athboy and Duleek, Co. Meath |
| Richard Clutterbuck & Brice LeCompte CRDS & BMA |
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| 9.50 – 10.10 | Drawing with Stylus and Screen: finds illustration in the digital age |
| Sara Nylund Headland Archaeology Ltd |
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| 10.10 – 10.30 | Working in 3D - Digital recording of the Drogheda Boat timbers |
| Holger
Schweitzer Underwater Archaeology Unit |
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| 10.30 – 10.50 | Using gaming technology to create an interactive 3d model of medieval Clonmacnoise |
| Gavin Duffy RealSim Ltd (formerly NUI Galway) |
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| 10.50 – 11.00 | Discussion |
| 11.00 – 11.30 | Tea/Coffee |
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SESSION IN MEMORY OF MARKUS CASEY
| 11.30 – 11.50 | TBC |
| Tom Condit | |
| 11.50 – 12.10 | ‘Just for the Record’: aerial archaeology in the Archaeological Survey of Ireland |
| Michael Moore | |
| 12.10 – 12.30 | TBC |
| Gillian Barrett |
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| 12.30 – 12.50 | Cameras, Flights, Action! The National Mapping Programme for England moves on |
| David
MacLeod English Heritage |
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| 12.50 – 1.00 | Discussion |
| 1.00 – 2.00 | Lunch |
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| 2.00 - 2.20 | Remote Sensing at OSI: an evolving technology |
| Andy McGill Ordnance Survey Ireland |
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| 2.20 – 2.40 | Mapping Moygara Castle; from Markus Casey’s instrument survey to the Moygara Castle Research Project |
| Kevin Barton Landscape & Geophysical Services |
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| 2.40 – 3.10 | High Resolution LiDAR: Application to Irish Archaeology |
| Anthony Corns & Robert Shaw The Discovery Programme |
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| 3.10 – 3.30 | On a Wing and a Prayer |
| Mick Gibbons | |
| 3.30 – 4.00 | Discussion |
| 4.00 | Conference Close |
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Conference Poster Session
The Institute is currently organising a poster-display
area where members of the Institute, conference sponsors and post-graduate
students of archaeology may display posters which illustrate the nature of their
research or highlight interesting aspects of their fieldwork, but which need not
necessarily address the conference theme. Posters should be A1 or A0 in size,
should be printed on a single sheet of good quality paper and should, ideally,
be composed of a combination of text (600-1,000 words) and high quality colour
or greyscale images. A prize will be awarded to the best poster displayed by a
post-graduate student. Please contact rory_sherlock@yahoo.co.uk
for further information and to indicate your
willingness to present a poster before September 19th 2008.
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Venue Information and Accomodation
Clarion Hotel, Clarion Road, Sligo
T: +353 71 9119099
F: +353 71 9119001
Conference rates are €95 single occupancy and €120 per double room - B&B.
