2025 website updates
We are in the middle of working on our website and archiving some of the older pages. Please bear with us while we update and change!
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2023 conference
Our 2023 conference took place on 6th May at the Royal Society of Antiquaries. The day was dedicated to the memory of Dr Eileen Reilly and it was lovely to see her family and friends on the day. Thanks to all who took part and attended!
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CPD wrap up
Thanks to everyone who participated in the EAI/IAI CPD course last week. Resources from the day are available here.
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CPD resources
Some of the resources for tomorrow’s EAI/IAI CPD course are now available here: https://eaireland.net/blog/cpd-resources/
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Sampling in environmental archaeology
EAI’s CPD course for members of the IAI, ‘Sampling for the study of environmental remains from archaeological excavations’, will be running on Wednesday, 15th March 2023. The course will be taking place in the Ardmore Annexe seminar room and laboratories, in UCD School of Archaeology. Here’s the schedule for the day: 09.30 – 10.00 Coffee/Tea…
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Environmental Archaeology CPD
Our training course in Environmental Archaeology, run by EAI with the Institute of Archaeologists of Ireland, is coming up soon (Wednesday 15th March). The aim of the one-day course is to highlight the importance of recovering and studyingenvironmental remains from Irish archaeological sites. These studies can make a huge contribution to our understanding of the…
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Archiving organic remains
How do we store the organic remains that are analysed by environmental archaeologists? It’s really important that these are available for follow-up work by the researchers of the future. This is a frequent topic at EAI meetings. One of our members, Penny Johnston, has been involved in writing a collaborative paper to discuss why we…
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Congratulations!
We’d like to congratulate one of our members, Dr David Stone who won the Máire de Paor Award for his PhD thesis. (David is pictured here with his PhD supervisor, Dr Meriel McClatchie, who is also an EAI member!) Some of David’s award-winning research has recently been published in Vegetation History and Archaeobotany. It’s an…
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TII training day
EAI organised a training day for TII archaeologists on 19th October 2022. Practicals included hands on experience processing samples and examining plant macro-remains, insect remains and pollen.
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First EAI seminar of 2022
Our next seminar in the series (and our first in 2022) will take place online on Thursday 27th January 2022 from 7pm to 8.30pm (Dublin time). We will feature short presentations and discussion on the development of the new zooarchaeology sampling guidelines from TII (download here). The presentations will be by Dr Fiona Beglane (Lecturer,…
