Archaeological excavations in Moneen Cave, the Burren, Co. Clare : insights into Bronze Age and post-medieval life in the West of Ireland /: insights into Bronze Age and post-medieval life in the West of Ireland. ([2016])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Marion Dowd.
• Authors: Dowd, Marion
• Other Names: Archaeopress, publisher.
• Contents: Part I The site, background and archaeological excavation ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Geology and geomorphology - David Drew; 3. History of investigation; 4. Cave morphology; 5. Excavation and post-excavation methodology; 6. Stratigraphic report; Part II Excavation results and specialist analyses; 7. Radiocarbon dates; 8. Mammalian faunal remains - Fiona Beglane; 9. Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry (ZooMS) analysis of four butchered animal bones - Keri Rowsell and Matthew Collins; 10. Bird and fish bones - Sheila Hamilton-Dyer; 11. Late Bronze Age oyster (Ostrea edulis) shells - Rory Connolly; 12. Charcoal; 13. Early Bronze Age antler hammerhead/macehead - Ruth F. Carden; 14. Middle/Late Bronze Age pottery - Elaine Lynch and Helen Roche; 15. Post-medieval human skeletal remains - Catriona McKenzie; 16. DNA analysis of the human skeletal remains - Mike Taylor; 17. Metagenomic analysis and mitochondrial genome reconstruction of the post-medieval individual from Moneen Cave - Åshild J. Vågene, Johannes Krause and Kirsten I. Bos; 18. Isotopic analysis of the human skeletal remains - Thomas Kador; 19. Analysis of Growth Recovery Lines (Harris lines) in the human skeletal remains - Fran O'Keeffe; 20. Historical context of the adolescent boy from Moneen Cave - Ciarán Ó Murchadha iHis; 21. Hints of an Early Mesolithic and/or Neolithic presence; Part III Discussion and interpretation: Moneen Cave in context; 22. An Early Bronze Age horizon: an antler hammerhead/macehead and a pig pelvis; 23. Middle and Late Bronze Age deposits; 24. Moneen Cave within the wider Bronze Age landscape of the Burren; 25. A post-medieval boy; 26. Public archaeology and Moneen Cave; 27. Future work; 28. References; Appendix 1 Context register; Appendix 2 Finds register; Appendix 3 Mammalian faunal remains by context - Fiona Beglane; Appendix 4 List of human bones - Catriona McKenzie.
• Publisher Details: Oxford : Archaeopress
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 936.101; Bronze age -- Ireland -- Clare; Excavations (Archaeology) -- Ireland -- Clare; Antiquities; Bronze age; Excavations (Archaeology); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology; Clare (Ireland) -- Antiquities; Ireland -- Clare; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781784914554
• Related ISBNs: 178491455X
• Notes: Note: Online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 14, 2016).
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