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Gabriel Cooney
Bio: Gabriel Cooney is an academic researcher from University College Dublin. The author has contributed to research in topics: Irish & Prehistory. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 50 publications receiving 707 citations.
Topics: Irish, Prehistory, Bronze Age, Mesolithic, Porcellanite
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02 Dec 1999
TL;DR: Landscapes of Neolithic Ireland as mentioned in this paper is the first volume devoted solely to the Irish Neolithic, using an innovative landscape and anthropological perspective to provide significant new insights on the period.
Abstract: Landscapes of Neolithic Ireland is the first volume to be devoted solely to the Irish Neolithic, using an innovative landscape and anthropological perspective to provide significant new insights on the period. Gabriel Cooney argues that the archaeological evidence demonstrates a much more complex picture than the current orthodoxy on Neolithic Europe, with its assumption of mobile lifestyles, suggests. He integrates the study of landscape, settlement, agriculture, material culture and burial practice to offer a rounded, realistic picture of the complexities and the realities of Neolithic lives and societies in Ireland.
153 citations
University of Nice Sophia Antipolis1, University of Exeter2, University of Bordeaux3, University College London4, University of Évora5, University of Turku6, University of Bristol7, University of the Basque Country8, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań9, International Centre for Theoretical Physics10, University of Ljubljana11, University College Dublin12, University of Cantabria13, National University of Ireland, Galway14, University of Lisbon15, University of Pisa16, University of Toulouse17, Queen's University Belfast18, Cardiff University19, University of Hamburg20, Spanish National Research Council21, Istanbul University22, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki23, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut24, University of Tübingen25, University of Franche-Comté26, University of Southampton27, University of Vienna28, Democritus University of Thrace29
TL;DR: Temporally, it is demonstrated that bee products were exploited continuously, and probably extensively in some regions, at least from the seventh millennium cal bc, likely fulfilling a variety of technological and cultural functions.
Abstract: The pressures on honeybee (Apis mellifera) populations, resulting from threats by modern pesticides, parasites, predators and diseases, have raised awareness of the economic importance and critical role this insect plays in agricultural societies across the globe. However, the association of humans with A. mellifera predates post-industrial-revolution agriculture, as evidenced by the widespread presence of ancient Egyptian bee iconography dating to the Old Kingdom (approximately 2400 BC). There are also indications of Stone Age people harvesting bee products; for example, honey hunting is interpreted from rock art in a prehistoric Holocene context and a beeswax find in a pre-agriculturalist site. However, when and where the regular association of A. mellifera with agriculturalists emerged is unknown. One of the major products of A. mellifera is beeswax, which is composed of a complex suite of lipids including n-alkanes, n-alkanoic acids and fatty acyl wax esters. The composition is highly constant as it is determined genetically through the insect's biochemistry. Thus, the chemical 'fingerprint' of beeswax provides a reliable basis for detecting this commodity in organic residues preserved at archaeological sites, which we now use to trace the exploitation by humans of A. mellifera temporally and spatially. Here we present secure identifications of beeswax in lipid residues preserved in pottery vessels of Neolithic Old World farmers. The geographical range of bee product exploitation is traced in Neolithic Europe, the Near East and North Africa, providing the palaeoecological range of honeybees during prehistory. Temporally, we demonstrate that bee products were exploited continuously, and probably extensively in some regions, at least from the seventh millennium cal BC, likely fulfilling a variety of technological and cultural functions. The close association of A. mellifera with Neolithic farming communities dates to the early onset of agriculture and may provide evidence for the beginnings of a domestication process.
126 citations
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01 Jan 1994
TL;DR: In this article, the authors compare the early medieval sculpture of the Govan stones with the production of other sculptures elsewhere in Britain in the tenth century, and find connections and connections between stone carvings in regions around the Irish Sea area.
Abstract: belied by its very workmanlike appearance; despite its slight height it may well have functioned as a tenon. Assessing the Govan stones against a wider context Derek Craig looks at The early medieval sculpture of the Glasgow area' and Colleen Batey at The sculptured stones in Glasgow Museums' , while Richard Bailey writes on 'Govan and Irish Sea sculpture'. Bailey's initial reaction to the Govan sculptures was to notice the unfamiliar, yet, as he points out, there are broad comparisons to be drawn between the production of these pieces and the production of other sculptures elsewhere in Britain in the tenth century. His insights on this, and on what he terms connections and 'disconnections' between stone carvings in regions around the Irish Sea area are informed by the results of intensive research on British stone sculpture, in which he himself has been involved, over the last two decades in particular. One wonders whether views will change as similar research in Ireland catches up; in particular will the view of 'disconnections' between Ireland and western Britain between north Wales and southern Scotland have to be modified as the Irish corpus of stone sculpture becomes more readily accessible. In the meantime one feels a slight envy of the ability displayed by Bailey to recognise the products of identifiable centres of mass production and distribution systems, an ability deriving in part from the accumulation of knowledge resulting from this intensive research in Britain. Similar expertise marks Rosemary Cramp's analysis of the Govan recumbent cross-slabs. These are confidently assigned to two distinct groups, in part because of the different techniques of carving: one group has ornament constructed by pecking the outline from the surface, a technique identified also on Viking Age sculpture in Northumbria, the other group more deeply carved ornament made by a chisel as well as a point, and laid out using a simple grid of circular holes.
76 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce the concept of seeing land from the sea, and present a series of images from the seafloor of the Mediterranean Sea and its surrounding waters.
Abstract: (2004). Introduction: seeing land from the sea. World Archaeology: Vol. 35, Seascapes, pp. 323-328.
64 citations
01 Jan 2014
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TL;DR: Rappaport as mentioned in this paper discusses the role of faith in the making of human beings and their relationship to the creation of the world. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999, p.536 pp.
Abstract: Ritual and Religion in the Making of Humanity. Roy A. Rappaport. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999.536 pp.
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276 citations
01 Jan 2016
TL;DR: In this paper, a human skeletal remains excavation analysis interpretation interpretation was downloaded from a malicious virus inside a desktop computer, but ended up in harmful downloads, rather than reading a good book with a cup of tea in the afternoon.
Abstract: Thank you very much for downloading human skeletal remains excavation analysis interpretation. Maybe you have knowledge that, people have look hundreds times for their chosen readings like this human skeletal remains excavation analysis interpretation, but end up in harmful downloads. Rather than reading a good book with a cup of tea in the afternoon, instead they juggled with some malicious virus inside their desktop computer.
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TL;DR: An Archaeology of Natural Places as mentioned in this paper is a collection of natural places from the early 1800s to the early 2000s with a focus on trees in the early stages of the human evolutionary process.
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TL;DR: The first ancient whole genomes from Ireland, including two at high coverage, demonstrate that large-scale genetic shifts accompanied both Neolithic and Bronze Age transitions, and suggest the establishment of central attributes of the Irish genome 4,000 y ago.
Abstract: The Neolithic and Bronze Age transitions were profound cultural shifts catalyzed in parts of Europe by migrations, first of early farmers from the Near East and then Bronze Age herders from the Pontic Steppe. However, a decades-long, unresolved controversy is whether population change or cultural adoption occurred at the Atlantic edge, within the British Isles. We address this issue by using the first whole genome data from prehistoric Irish individuals. A Neolithic woman (3343–3020 cal BC) from a megalithic burial (10.3× coverage) possessed a genome of predominantly Near Eastern origin. She had some hunter–gatherer ancestry but belonged to a population of large effective size, suggesting a substantial influx of early farmers to the island. Three Bronze Age individuals from Rathlin Island (2026–1534 cal BC), including one high coverage (10.5×) genome, showed substantial Steppe genetic heritage indicating that the European population upheavals of the third millennium manifested all of the way from southern Siberia to the western ocean. This turnover invites the possibility of accompanying introduction of Indo-European, perhaps early Celtic, language. Irish Bronze Age haplotypic similarity is strongest within modern Irish, Scottish, and Welsh populations, and several important genetic variants that today show maximal or very high frequencies in Ireland appear at this horizon. These include those coding for lactase persistence, blue eye color, Y chromosome R1b haplotypes, and the hemochromatosis C282Y allele; to our knowledge, the first detection of a known Mendelian disease variant in prehistory. These findings together suggest the establishment of central attributes of the Irish genome 4,000 y ago.
208 citations