Climate change, whether gradual or sudden, has frequently been invoked as a causal factor
to explain many aspects of cultural change during the prehistoric and early historic periods …

In archaeology, the meta-analysis of scientific dating information plays an ever-increasing
role. A common thread among many recent studies contributing to this has been the …

The ability to control fire has continuously developed over the long history of human
evolution. Modern humans and preceding hominins have used fire since the Lower to …

Abstract In Ireland, the Middle to Late Bronze Age (1500–600 cal bc.) is characterised by
alternating phases of prolific metalwork production (the Bishopsland and Dowris Phases) …

We conducted high-resolution palynological analysis on a sediment core obtained from
Lough Muckno, County Monaghan, Ireland. The results presented represent the first …

This paper explores the origins of pyrolithic technology in Ireland and examines the role
fulachtaí fia may have played in the social customs of cooking among early farming …

This paper examines the technical aspects of indirect cooking using pyrolithic technology in
Ireland with a particular focus on its application during the Bronze Age. The widespread …

Over the last three decades there has been a considerable rise in the number of excavations
which have revealed evidence for Middle–Late Bronze Age (c. 1750–600 BC) settlement in …

Fulachtaí fia are ancient water-boiling sites that are found in large numbers in many parts of
Ireland. They are especially numerous in the Cork region, where some 2,500 examples are …

This article presents the results of multi-scalar investigations into the Later Bronze Age (LBA;
1500–600 bc) landscape of Inishark in County Galway, Ireland. The European LBA along …