Lia [she / her] 🏳️‍🌈Nov 14, 2023
Just celebrated the tiniest launch party for my website ❤
Just me, the web developer (the gift is for her), vegan hot chocolate and ice cream. I am so proud the site launched today and my business now looks (somewhat) official 😊
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Show threadRuth Carden 🦴Nov 13, 2022

But I jumped forward a few years and digressed a little, only due to mention of the red deer origins paper… but first a need for some coffee to get my brain cells in order to tell you about the next milestone of this untold origins story of #IrishCaveBones project.

#IrishCaveBones #SciCommIE #iSciComm

Show threadRuth Carden 🦴Nov 13, 2022
And this mutual interest was developed in chats with Allan McDevitt (now ATU), whom had worked with me on the Irish red deer paper. So a long collaboration involving many projects started with Allan McDevitt (now ATU) began and still continues to this day. As we still try to answer the colonisation of Ireland many questions, but we have some! We became very good friends too.
#IrishCaveBones #SciCommIE #iSciComm
Show threadRuth Carden 🦴Nov 13, 2022

Back in early years of the #IrishCaveBones project, I was interested in knowing what faunal species were here in Quaternary Ireland, & by knowing the dates/when, we could piece together past ecosystems & investigate why some species survived whilst others didn’t.

But also how and when faunal species got to Ireland - the colonisation of our island in the past in terms of animals and plants. #IrishCaveBones #SciCommIE #iSciComm

Show threadRuth Carden 🦴Nov 13, 2022
I asked and was given permission by the Museum staff, to start a full reassessment and (re)identification of all caves’ bones using up to date zooarchaeological recording techniques and creating a unique catalogue of all the bones. And so, the #IrishCaveBones project began… from just a few empty tables in the museum’s stores to tables filled with bones and fragments. #IrishCaveBones #iSciComm #SciCommIE #iSci .... more tomorrow :) (or later today... my natural night owl is showing!)
Show threadRuth Carden 🦴Nov 13, 2022
Back in 2007/8, during research access to the National Museum of Ireland collections for the origins of Irish red deer project (published Carden et al., 2012 bit.ly/3g2CRhm), to the antiquarian archived animal bones excavation from many different Irish caves which were excavated during late 1800s to mid-1900s, I saw mis-identified red deer bones. These were labelled as pig, sheep, horse and reindeer bones. #IrishCaveBones #iSciComm #SciCommIE #iSci