Blogs Posts on "About Archaeology"

Tara Symposium by Moore Groups Blog on Oct 22, 2009Via the IAI: Tara – From the Past to the Future hosted by the UCD School of Archaeology will take place this weekend in the John Hume Institute for Global Irish Studies. Featuring forty papers by an international group of scholars, the symposiu...

Dining and Dwelling Part 4 by Moore Groups Blog on Sep 20, 2009Part four of Dining and Dwelling publication (Part one here,  part two here and part three here) CONCLUSION So, what is the evidence for brewing? First, the experiment worked. Fermentation caused by wind-blown yeast even occurred in the leftover mas...

Dining and Dwelling Part 3 by Moore Groups Blog on Sep 18, 2009Part three of Dining and Dwelling publication (Part one here, and part two here) Our first brewing experiment was carried out at Billy’s home in Headford, Co. Galway, in August 2007. In an effort to make the experiment authentic the equipment had t...

Dining and Dwelling part 2 by Moore Groups Blog on Sep 16, 2009Part two of Dining and Dwelling publication (Part one here) THE GREAT MYSTERY OF PREHISTORIC BREWING. In prehistoric times until the late Iron Age, metallurgy was limited to small hand tools and high-status items. Throughout prehistoric Europe one o...

Dining & Dwelling by Moore Groups Blog on Sep 14, 2009Last year Billy and Declan gave a presentation at the National Roads Authority’s annual archaeology seminar about the fulacht beer theory. You can see a video of the presentation here. The resultant  monograph Dining and Dwelling has just bee...

My Summer Holidays by Billy Quinn aged 41 and a half. by Moore Groups Blog on Aug 18, 2009Following a recent excursion to Belgium to investigate German trench positions in the vicinity of the the village of Messines, Declan asked if I would post an entry describing my experiences …here it is. The excavations were directed by Martin Brow...

Moore on Beer by Moore Groups Blog on Jul 23, 2009Okay: It’s not exactly TED. But anyway, here’s our (Billy & Dec’s) presentation at the 2008 NRA Seminar (Dining and Dwelling) which is due for publication next month. Entitled: ‘Fulachta fiadh and the beer e...

Ancient Egyptian Barley by Moore Groups Blog on Jul 21, 2009Via our daily Google Alert email we learned of some interesting research into ancient barley at the University of Warwick, where ‘boffins’ have recovered significant DNA information ‘from a lost form of ancient barley that triumphed for over 30...

New Archaeological Guidelines by Moore Groups Blog on Jul 14, 2009VIA Brian Dolan’s informative Blog – Seandalaiocht (wordpress won’t allow me to use a fada): New archaeological guidelines have just been launched by the Minister for the Environment, John Gormley. They relate to development by the...

IAI (un)employment survey by Moore Groups Blog on Jul 2, 2009The results of the Institute of Archaeologists of Ireland’s (IAI) recent employment survey are now online here. And, although not unexpected, it makes for a very sobering read. Although not necessarily definitive, given that the survey numbers acco...