Excavations at Ballynamintra cave continues by our mighty crew on site. We are grateful to the continued assistance from the Cork Speleological Group. This work is funded by the Royal Irish Academy and the Irish Research Council COALESCE Instar+ grants. #IrishCaveBones #IrishArchaeology #Archaeology #Zooarchaeology #Quaternary

#AWOOOO a new Researcher Pack member has joined us, he collaborates with Ruth on her #IrishCaveBones projects but we welcome Patrick Randolph-Quinney to #VikingDublinDogs project to help Ruth with all of the bone shape/size analysis of the #dogs & #horses. Welcome to the Pack, Pat!

It’s out now, tune in for a listen. I enjoyed sharing my story and my research with @mnutty & @Johnleemedia. On all platforms,
Here’s the Spotify link (platform I use the most): https://spotify.link/hreboNOFvBb #irishcavebones #VikingDublinDogs #WomenInSTEM #LoveIrishResearch #IrishResearch #zooarchaeology #IrishArchaeology

The night owl in me, has me writing the full outline of Reindeer Paper 1 Draft 0, where I spill the story onto paper, no citations, the facts as much as possible.
Create the flow of a story that’s interesting to the reader (and me). I do some of my best writing in the dark listening to the whispers of #IrishCaveBones!

#IrishCaveBones Killuragh cave horse bones (partial distal tibia and pisiform bones) … earliest post Ice Age horse bones in Ireland found in this cave in Middle Bronze Age. But what kind of horses? We are collab with @StillJustRena to investigate further :) #LoveIrishResearch
#caves #cavearchaeology #horses #bones #zooarchaeology #irisharchaeology #archaeology #ireland #Quaternary #pleistocene #Holocene #heritage

Starting to prepare #IrishCaveBones from Killuragh Cave, Co. Limerick for Licencing applications to the National Museim of Ireland, for radiocarbon dates, #aDNA and stable isotopes from multi-species. Including #dogs ! Will be photographing these & more later in the week and filling in the licence forms. Also some unidentified bone fragments will go for ZooMS analysis to determine the their species. #loveirishresearch #bones #cave #quaternary #palaeozoology #zooarchaeology #Pleistocene

We just got back new results and my god! I'm so excited and can't wait to share these with you all later this year when the paper is published. Ireland is really important, though we knew that already!! #IrishCaveBones