Finbar Mccormick
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3641440 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Finbar Mccormick |
| PRENOMES | Finbar |
| SOBRENOME | Mccormick |
| ASSINATURA | MCCORMICK F |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Queen's University Belfast |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6759-0701 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 29 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1979 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Direct dating confirms the presence of otter and badger in early Holocene Ireland
The origin of Ireland’s fauna is an unresolved issue in the history of the island. Although researchers once considered Ireland’s mammals to have spread to Ireland during the early postglacial from 11,700 cal BP, research has increasingly suggested humans translocated many of these species to Ireland. However, due to sparse evidence, the origin of Ireland’s purported native mustelid species remains unanswered. In this study, we shed light on the …
Changing human-cattle relationships in Ireland
Domesticated cattle were brought to Ireland during the Neolithic. By the early medieval period, 4000 years later, these animals were central to social and economic status in Irish communities and the landscape was organised around cattle husbandry to a degree unattested elsewhere in Europe. How this socio-economic importance developed is unclear. Here, using isotope data spanning six millennia, the authors identify a culturally driven shift towar…
More than meat? Examining cattle slaughter, feasting and deposition in later 4th millennium BC Atlantic Europe
Cattle are widely recognised as having important economic, social, symbolic and religious roles in Neolithic communities. This high status appears strongly linked with feasting and commensality, events during which a great number of cattle are slaughtered and their carcasses purposefully deposited. This paper presents details of an unusually large assemblage of cattle remains recovered from the ditches of a later 4th millennium BC enclosure at Ki…
New integrated molecular approaches for investigating lake settlements in north-western Europe
Lake settlements, particularly crannogs, pose several contradictions—visible yet inaccessible, widespread yet geographically restricted, persistent yet vulnerable. To further our understanding, we developed the integrated use of palaeolimnological (scanning XRF, pollen, spores, diatoms, chironomids, Cladocera, microcharcoal, biogenic silica, SEM-EDS, stable-isotopes) and biomolecular (faecal stanols, bile acids, sedaDNA) analyses of crannog cores…
Characterising life in settlements and structures
Roundhouses are ubiquitous features of Iron Age landscapes across North West Europe, yet the way they were used internally is not well understood. We demonstrate how spatial analyses of steroid lipid biomarkers advances our understanding of household activities, living conditions and animal management associated with a well-preserved 5th century BCE roundhouse from Scotland's first Iron Age wetland village, Black Loch of Myrton, especially when c…
Changing perspectives on early medieval farming in Ireland
Genomic and archaeological evidence suggest a dual origin of domestic dogs
A dogged investigation of domestication The history of how wolves became our pampered pooches of today has remained controversial. Frantz et al. describe high-coverage sequencing of the genome of an Irish dog from the Bronze Age as well as ancient dog mitochondrial DNA sequences. Comparing ancient dogs to a modern worldwide panel of dogs shows an old, deep split between East Asian and Western Eurasian dogs. Thus, dogs were domesticated from two s…
A Viking Ship Graffito from Kilclief, County Down, Ireland
Deep ploughing near Kilclief, County Down, near the site of an early monastery, disturbed a large quantity of buried stones. One of these displayed a Viking-type ship with a furled sail. Decorative artwork on the stone suggests an 11th-century date. The ship displays close similarities to Viking ship graffiti in Viking Dublin and in the Scandinavian homelands. This article describes the decorated stone and suggests that it represents an Irish shi…
Early medieval farming and food production
Agriculture, settlement and society in Early Medieval Ireland
Statistics, sunspots and settlement
Cows, milk and religion
This review of documentary sources, particularly from Early Mesopotamia, Egypt, India and Europe seeks to show how the range of dairy products varied in different areas and to demonstrate that in many societies, cows and dairying played an important role in early religious practice. The range of dairy products consumed also varied greatly between different societies and the use of milk did not automatically imply that dairying technology was appl…
Doonloughan
Emily Murray, Finbar McCormick, Conor Newman, Sheila Hamilton-Dyer, Gill Plunkett, Doonloughan: a seasonal settlement site on the Connemara coast, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy: Archaeology, Culture, History, Literature, Vol. 112C (2012), pp. 95-146
Excavations in the Laird's Hall, Drum Castle, Aberdeenshire
Report of an excavation carried out at the Castle of Drum in 1991 to investigate the possibility of uncovering evidence of the life of the great tower prior to the seventeenth century, and to try to date the structure. Excavation was restricted to the upper Laird's Hall and to part of the cellar. Although few datable artefacts were recovered, organic remains from floor deposits survived. The stone base of a screen was uncovered at the eastern end…
The Food Economies of Atlantic Island Monasteries
Much of our knowledge of Early Medieval monastic economies is based on contemporary documentary sources. Until recently, this literary record has had little in the way of useful archaeo-environmental data to support it. This paper examines the unusually rich environmental remains recovered from the excavations at two early island monasteries – Iona, in the Inner Hebrides, and Illaunloughan, Co. Kerry. The assemblages present a key opportunity to …
Bereavement and Commemoration
Seasonality in a Scottish Diet
A mid-eighteenth century housebook from a Scottish estate provides daily information concerning the food consumed by the household. This allows us to consider the meat diet of the family and their servants in terms of seasonality. It shows that few foods are eaten consistently throughout the year.
Seasonality in a Scottish Diet
A mid-eighteenth century housebook from a Scottish estate provides daily information concerning the food consumed by the household. This allows us to consider the meat diet of the family and their servants in terms of seasonality. It shows that few foods are eaten consistently throughout the year
Excavations at Niddry Castle, West Lothian, 1986-90
Excavations at St Andrews, Castlecliffe, 1988-90
Excavation to the immediate west of the castle revealed considerable evidence of occupation (probably not continuous) dating from c. 1200 to at least the mid-sixteenth century. Most of the structures uncovered were associated with the medieval burgh not the castle. The first timber buildings gave way to a fourteenth-century tannery, probably when the castle was in ruins and unoccupied. The tannery gave way to two phases of residential buildings, …
Excavations at Pluscarden Priory, Moray
This report, prefaced by a brief history of Pluscarden Priory, and by a description of the church, describes excavations on the western side of the Priory. Features investigated include the western end of the nave, a series of burials, a stone-lined pit containing a rich organic deposit, and walls associated with the medieval monastic complex. The excavation was arranged and funded by Historic Scotland
On the edge
Early Christian metalworking on Iona
Excavations at Rattray, Aberdeenshire. A Scottish Deserted Burgh
DOCUMENTARY sources identify the deserted settlement of Rattray, Aberdeenshire, as a royal burgh from the mid 16th century and as a probable burgh of barony from the 13th century. Excavation has revealed a more complex settlement history with a late 12th- or early 13th-century defensive motte having been replaced by a more manorial establishment which encouraged the development of an adjacent settlement between the 13th and 15th centuries. Domest…
Legions of pigs in the early medieval West
Early Faunal Evidence for Dairying
The high incidence of young calves and mature females in faunal assemblages is often interpreted as being indicative of the practice of specialised dairying. an alternative model is suggested here on the basis of faunal and documentary evidence from the early historical period in Ireland
Statistics, sunspots and settlement
Characterising life in settlements and structures
Roundhouses are ubiquitous features of Iron Age landscapes across North West Europe, yet the way they were used internally is not well understood. We demonstrate how spatial analyses of steroid lipid biomarkers advances our understanding of household activities, living conditions and animal management associated with a well-preserved 5th century BCE roundhouse from Scotland's first Iron Age wetland village, Black Loch of Myrton, especially when c…
The excavation of post-medieval burials from Braigh, Aignish, Lewis, 1989
During the course of road works in 1989 two groups of skeletons were unearthed from sand dunes. Excavation has shown that eleven corpses were deposited in two parallel trenches. The date of the burial is estimated, on the basis of the coin evidence, to be c. 1700. The skeletons were probably all male with a wide span of ages, though most died in early adulthood. It seems most likely that they were victims of a shipwreck
A Viking Ship Graffito from Kilclief, County Down, Ireland
Deep ploughing near Kilclief, County Down, near the site of an early monastery, disturbed a large quantity of buried stones. One of these displayed a Viking-type ship with a furled sail. Decorative artwork on the stone suggests an 11th-century date. The ship displays close similarities to Viking ship graffiti in Viking Dublin and in the Scandinavian homelands. This article describes the decorated stone and suggests that it represents an Irish shi…
The Food Economies of Atlantic Island Monasteries
Much of our knowledge of Early Medieval monastic economies is based on contemporary documentary sources. Until recently, this literary record has had little in the way of useful archaeo-environmental data to support it. This paper examines the unusually rich environmental remains recovered from the excavations at two early island monasteries – Iona, in the Inner Hebrides, and Illaunloughan, Co. Kerry. The assemblages present a key opportunity to …
Changing human-cattle relationships in Ireland
Domesticated cattle were brought to Ireland during the Neolithic. By the early medieval period, 4000 years later, these animals were central to social and economic status in Irish communities and the landscape was organised around cattle husbandry to a degree unattested elsewhere in Europe. How this socio-economic importance developed is unclear. Here, using isotope data spanning six millennia, the authors identify a culturally driven shift towar…
New integrated molecular approaches for investigating lake settlements in north-western Europe
Lake settlements, particularly crannogs, pose several contradictions—visible yet inaccessible, widespread yet geographically restricted, persistent yet vulnerable. To further our understanding, we developed the integrated use of palaeolimnological (scanning XRF, pollen, spores, diatoms, chironomids, Cladocera, microcharcoal, biogenic silica, SEM-EDS, stable-isotopes) and biomolecular (faecal stanols, bile acids, sedaDNA) analyses of crannog cores…
Excavations at Rattray, Aberdeenshire. A Scottish Deserted Burgh
DOCUMENTARY sources identify the deserted settlement of Rattray, Aberdeenshire, as a royal burgh from the mid 16th century and as a probable burgh of barony from the 13th century. Excavation has revealed a more complex settlement history with a late 12th- or early 13th-century defensive motte having been replaced by a more manorial establishment which encouraged the development of an adjacent settlement between the 13th and 15th centuries. Domest…
A Group of Tradesmen's Headstones (With Notes on Their Trades and Tools)
The excavation of post-medieval burials from Braigh, Aignish, Lewis, 1989
During the course of road works in 1989 two groups of skeletons were unearthed from sand dunes. Excavation has shown that eleven corpses were deposited in two parallel trenches. The date of the burial is estimated, on the basis of the coin evidence, to be c. 1700. The skeletons were probably all male with a wide span of ages, though most died in early adulthood. It seems most likely that they were victims of a shipwreck
Early Faunal Evidence for Dairying
The high incidence of young calves and mature females in faunal assemblages is often interpreted as being indicative of the practice of specialised dairying. an alternative model is suggested here on the basis of faunal and documentary evidence from the early historical period in Ireland
A short cist at Grainfoot, Longniddry, East Lothian
Describes the excavation of a Bronze Age cist containing two inhumations and a deposit of pig bones
On the edge
Early Christian metalworking on Iona
Excavations at Rattray, Aberdeenshire. A Scottish Deserted Burgh
DOCUMENTARY sources identify the deserted settlement of Rattray, Aberdeenshire, as a royal burgh from the mid 16th century and as a probable burgh of barony from the 13th century. Excavation has revealed a more complex settlement history with a late 12th- or early 13th-century defensive motte having been replaced by a more manorial establishment which encouraged the development of an adjacent settlement between the 13th and 15th centuries. Domest…
Excavations at Pluscarden Priory, Moray
This report, prefaced by a brief history of Pluscarden Priory, and by a description of the church, describes excavations on the western side of the Priory. Features investigated include the western end of the nave, a series of burials, a stone-lined pit containing a rich organic deposit, and walls associated with the medieval monastic complex. The excavation was arranged and funded by Historic Scotland
Excavations at St Andrews, Castlecliffe, 1988-90
Excavation to the immediate west of the castle revealed considerable evidence of occupation (probably not continuous) dating from c. 1200 to at least the mid-sixteenth century. Most of the structures uncovered were associated with the medieval burgh not the castle. The first timber buildings gave way to a fourteenth-century tannery, probably when the castle was in ruins and unoccupied. The tannery gave way to two phases of residential buildings, …
Seasonality in a Scottish Diet
A mid-eighteenth century housebook from a Scottish estate provides daily information concerning the food consumed by the household. This allows us to consider the meat diet of the family and their servants in terms of seasonality. It shows that few foods are eaten consistently throughout the year.
Seasonality in a Scottish Diet
A mid-eighteenth century housebook from a Scottish estate provides daily information concerning the food consumed by the household. This allows us to consider the meat diet of the family and their servants in terms of seasonality. It shows that few foods are eaten consistently throughout the year
Excavations at Niddry Castle, West Lothian, 1986-90
Bereavement and Commemoration
The Food Economies of Atlantic Island Monasteries
Much of our knowledge of Early Medieval monastic economies is based on contemporary documentary sources. Until recently, this literary record has had little in the way of useful archaeo-environmental data to support it. This paper examines the unusually rich environmental remains recovered from the excavations at two early island monasteries – Iona, in the Inner Hebrides, and Illaunloughan, Co. Kerry. The assemblages present a key opportunity to …
Excavations in the Laird's Hall, Drum Castle, Aberdeenshire
Report of an excavation carried out at the Castle of Drum in 1991 to investigate the possibility of uncovering evidence of the life of the great tower prior to the seventeenth century, and to try to date the structure. Excavation was restricted to the upper Laird's Hall and to part of the cellar. Although few datable artefacts were recovered, organic remains from floor deposits survived. The stone base of a screen was uncovered at the eastern end…
Doonloughan
Emily Murray, Finbar McCormick, Conor Newman, Sheila Hamilton-Dyer, Gill Plunkett, Doonloughan: a seasonal settlement site on the Connemara coast, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy: Archaeology, Culture, History, Literature, Vol. 112C (2012), pp. 95-146
Cows, milk and religion
This review of documentary sources, particularly from Early Mesopotamia, Egypt, India and Europe seeks to show how the range of dairy products varied in different areas and to demonstrate that in many societies, cows and dairying played an important role in early religious practice. The range of dairy products consumed also varied greatly between different societies and the use of milk did not automatically imply that dairying technology was appl…
Statistics, sunspots and settlement
Agriculture, settlement and society in Early Medieval Ireland
Early medieval farming and food production
Genomic and archaeological evidence suggest a dual origin of domestic dogs
A dogged investigation of domestication The history of how wolves became our pampered pooches of today has remained controversial. Frantz et al. describe high-coverage sequencing of the genome of an Irish dog from the Bronze Age as well as ancient dog mitochondrial DNA sequences. Comparing ancient dogs to a modern worldwide panel of dogs shows an old, deep split between East Asian and Western Eurasian dogs. Thus, dogs were domesticated from two s…
A Viking Ship Graffito from Kilclief, County Down, Ireland
Deep ploughing near Kilclief, County Down, near the site of an early monastery, disturbed a large quantity of buried stones. One of these displayed a Viking-type ship with a furled sail. Decorative artwork on the stone suggests an 11th-century date. The ship displays close similarities to Viking ship graffiti in Viking Dublin and in the Scandinavian homelands. This article describes the decorated stone and suggests that it represents an Irish shi…
Changing perspectives on early medieval farming in Ireland
Characterising life in settlements and structures
Roundhouses are ubiquitous features of Iron Age landscapes across North West Europe, yet the way they were used internally is not well understood. We demonstrate how spatial analyses of steroid lipid biomarkers advances our understanding of household activities, living conditions and animal management associated with a well-preserved 5th century BCE roundhouse from Scotland's first Iron Age wetland village, Black Loch of Myrton, especially when c…
More than meat? Examining cattle slaughter, feasting and deposition in later 4th millennium BC Atlantic Europe
Cattle are widely recognised as having important economic, social, symbolic and religious roles in Neolithic communities. This high status appears strongly linked with feasting and commensality, events during which a great number of cattle are slaughtered and their carcasses purposefully deposited. This paper presents details of an unusually large assemblage of cattle remains recovered from the ditches of a later 4th millennium BC enclosure at Ki…
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