http://eachtra.ie An Irish archaeological partnership Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:35:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Searching the Internet Archive for 'archaeology' is like sticking your trowel into a deep layer filled with seeds, charcoal, pottery and iron objects. http://eachtra.ie/index.php/journal/searching-the-internet-archive/ The 16th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists will be held in the city of The Hague in the Netherlands from 1st-5th September 2010. An excellent venue for the meeting has been found in Leiden University Campus The Hague, in the building of the Royal Conservatoire, adjacent to the ... http://eachtra.ie/index.php/journal/eaa-conference-september-2010-the-haag-netherlands/ A Predominantly Neolithic Origin for European Paternal Lineages Abstract The relative contributions to modern European populations of Paleolithic hunter-gatherers and Neolithic farmers from the Near East have been intensely debated. Haplogroup R1b1b2 (R-M269) is the commonest European Y-chromosomal lineage, increasing in frequency from east to west, and carried by 110 million European ... http://eachtra.ie/index.php/journal/new-plos-biology-article-on-genetic-origins-of-europeans/ Mitchelstown Historical Lectures 2010 February Tuesday 23rd 2010 Jacinta Kiely- Archaeological Excavation: Results from the N8 Fermoy to Mitchelstown road. Town Hall, Mitchelstown at 8pm http://eachtra.ie/index.php/journal/lecture-archaeological-excavation-results-from-the-n8-fermoy-to-mitchelstown-road/ Early Medieval Northumbria Research Seminar New Research on Early Medieval Burial 30th April 2010 Contacts: Dr Sam Turner: sam.turner@ncl.ac.uk Dr David Petts: d.a.petts@durham.ac.uk Venue: Shefton Room, School of Historical Studies 1st Floor, Armstrong Building, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE1 7RU Tel: 0191 222 8110 Free admission. All are welcome xref Owenbristy Via Archaeology in Europe http://eachtra.ie/index.php/journal/new-research-on-early-medieval-burial-seminar-april-2010/ The Association of Young Irish Archaeologists are holding their 42nd Annual Conference in UCC next week. February 26-28th 2010. Venue Boole 1. UCC, Cork City. http://eachtra.ie/index.php/journal/ayia-spring-conference-26-28th-february-2010-university-college-cork/ The Archaeology Society, UCC, is hosting a lecture byDr Brian Lacey, CEO of the Discovery Programme, on the 25th of February in Conn S2 on Western Road at 7pm. The topic of Dr Lacey's talk will be: 'The Landscape Archaeology of the Early Medieval Donegal Kingdoms' The first two, and possibly the first ... http://eachtra.ie/index.php/journal/lecture-the-landscape-archaeology-of-the-early-medieval-donegal-kingdoms/ The 46th Consecutive Conference The Gaelic World and Irish Christianity before the Vikings 9th-11th April 2010 http://eachtra.ie/index.php/journal/roscrea-spring-conference-2010-the-gaelic-world-and-irish-christianity-before-the-vikings/ This is a three day conference on in Waterford city over the last weekend in March 2010. Waterford Museum of Treasures in association with the National Museum of Ireland Woodtown_Conf_2010 http://eachtra.ie/index.php/journal/international-viking-conference-viking-woodstown-and-hiberno-norse-waterford/ PLANETS - PRESERVATION AND LONG-TERM ACCESS THROUGH NETWORKED SERVICES are holding a conference in London today and tomorrow. I see there are a number of European countries represented and I wonder if anybody from the National Museum or DOE Archaeology Section have been able to attend. (http://www.planets-project.eu/events/london-2010/programme/) http://eachtra.ie/index.php/journal/planets-digital-preservation-conference-london-feb-2010/