Tag: Archaeobotany

  • What’s cooking? Military Kitchen at Tully Park

    What’s cooking? Military Kitchen at Tully Park

    Our inhouse archaeobotanist, Roisín Ó Droma, has published an article in the Journal of Irish Archaeology (Volume XXXII, 2023), which is fresh off the press this week. It provides an insight into food and fuel from a Napoleonic-Era Military Kitchen in Ireland dating from the 1790s. Excavations were carried out by IAC in 2022 (Duffy […]

  • Archaeobotanical Analysis reflecting Medieval diet

    Archaeobotanical Analysis reflecting Medieval diet

    On UN World Food Day 2023 we are sharing some interesting results from inhouse archaeobotanical analyses carried out on one of our urban projects. Food is a necessary component of life, and plant macrofossil analysis can help us to identify the foods of the past and learn about what our ancestors ate. Plant macrofossil analysis […]