• Embalmed heads of the Celtic Iron Age in the south of France 

  Ghezal, S.; Ciesielski, E.; Girard, B.; Creuzieux, A.; Gosnell, Peter; Mathe, C.; Vieillescazes, C.; Roure, R. (Elsevier, 2018-11-07)

  Ancient texts described that one of the most impressive ritual practices of the Celts during the Iron Age was to remove the heads of enemies killed in battle and to embalm them for display in front of the victors dwellings. ...
• Iron Age settlement in mid-west Ireland 

  Becker, Katharina (Sidestone Press, 2019)

  Difficulties in answering the question of where and how people lived has for a long time been one of the central obstacles to understanding of Iron Age lifeways in Ireland. The earlier part of this period between 800 or ...
• A multi-proxy Holocene palaeoenvironmental record of climate change and prehistoric human activity from Lough Cullin, southeast Ireland 

  Kearney, Kevin; Gearey, Benjamin R.; Hegarty, Susan; Richer, Suzi; Ferreira, Carla; O'Carroll, Ellen; Hamilton, Derek; Eogan, James; McClatchie, Meriel; Armit, Ian; Nagle, Caitlin; Taylor, Kate; Hull, Graham; Becker, Katharina (SAGE Publications, 2022-01-11)

  A multiproxy (pollen, microcharcoal, loss-on-ignition, magnetic susceptibility and geochemistry) sequence from Lough Cullin, southeast Ireland, supported by a high-resolution radiocarbon chronology, modelled using Bayesian ...
• An Egyptian mummy and coffin at University College Cork 

  Davis, Helen (University College Cork, 1988)

  This thesis is an attempt to establish the relationship between an Egyptian mummy, cartonnage and coffin. To this end, the mummy was x-rayed by conventional means and C.T scanning to discover possible a date and to discover ...
• Archaeological investigations at Ballylin hillfort, Co. Limerick 

  O'Brien, William; Hogan, Nick; O'Driscoll, James (Thomond Archaeological and Historical Society, 2016)

  Ballylin hillfort near Ardagh is the largest prehistoric monument in Co. Limerick. This paper presents the results of an archaeological investigation conducted there in 2012 by a research team from University College Cork. ...

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