Reminder: charity bake sale !

Valentine's bake sale in aid of Aware

Hello everyone!

The Society will be supporting Aware, charity for mental health and support, next week by hosting a bake sale! It will take place during our coffee morning slots in the main foyer of the New Student Centre. 

Wednesday 12th February

12-2pm

New Student Centre

We have decided to make it a Valentine's themed one, and you will be able to buy cakes and gift them to a friend, boyfriend, girlfriend or family thanks to our amazing Sarah who will be writing the name of the person receiving the cake on them! (More details to follow). 


For now, get ready to share the love and support charity !

Seminar series 2013: "Land use and community differentiation in the European Neolithic"

Next week's seminar will be by Prof. Alex Bentley of the University of Bristol, who been kind enough to send us an abstract (see below). This seminar will take place

Room A109

Newman Building

Thursday 6th February

17:30

Abstract:"Community differentiation is a fundamental topic of the social sciences, and its prehistoric origins in Europe are typically assumed to lie among the complex, densely-populated societies that developed millennia after their Neolithic predecessors. Here we present recent isotopic evidence for such differentiation in early Neolithic Europe. Among the indications of the new evidence is differential land use in early Neolithic within a patrilocal kinship system. This can be put in context with new work at Bristol University on stable isotopes and organic residues preserved in Neolithic pottery, to infer the changing roles of animals in human diets (particularly dairying), economies and evolutionary genetics of LBK populations. As these large-scale projects come together, we are obtaining bioarchaeological evidence for diversity and specialization within a culture previously referred to as a homogenous 'package'."

Refresher's Day ! Wednesday 29th January

Hello everyone, 

The Society will have a stall at Refreshers Day tomorrow! It is your chance to join the Society if you still haven't, or to invite your friends to join.  Refresher's Day will take place Wednesday 29th January 10 am - 4 pm  Astra Hall (Old Student Centre) More information here: http://ucdsocieties.com/events/refreshers-day/

Seminar report: "Roman bathing and its legacy on Crete" by Dr A. Kelly

Our 2014 seminar series began with Dr Amanda Kelly (UCD school of Classics) who gave a talk on “Roman bathing and its legacy on Crete”. This talk focused on the early Byzantine period (5-6^th century) of the Island and how the tradition of public baths had survived from roman times into later periods. Dr Kelly is a former student of the college, having completed both her undergraduate degree and her masters here.

The talk was based off of Dr Kelly’s 2004 PHD work surveying the island, during which she managed to locate at least 55 roman bath sites on the island of Crete. It is a testament to the results of Dr Kelly’s research that no bathhouses had been identified prior to her work and goes to show that Crete has a vast archaeological heritage beyond the Minoan culture it is so famed for.

Of great interest was the relationship between the topography of the land and the location of roman bathhouses. The Cretan terrain was well suited to building of Roman aqueducts, the sloping terrain providing the gravity necessary to provide water to settlements and their bathhouses.

Dr Kelly’s work is highly inspired by the work of Italian Giuseppe Gerola’s work surveying the island in 1904, who although he was focused on surveying the Venetian impact on the island, provided extensive information on repurposed sites.

Of interest was what Dr Kelly described as the symbiosis of Roman bath and Early Byzantine church architecture – with the ecclesiastical community having baths named after saints and overall showing a tolerance of the bathing tradition, even into later periods.

Dr Kelly’s lecture was an interesting look into a period of Cretan archaeology that is often overshadowed by the legacy of Minoan archaeology on the island. The UCD archaeology society and the department of Archaeology would like to thank Dr Kelly for taking the time to present her work and wish her the best of luck in future research. 

By Stephen Domican

Welcome back to UCD: drinks in the Clubhouse bar

Hello everyone,

Welcome back to UCD after the Christmas break, and welcome to UCD full stop if you are joining us for the semester! The Archaeology Society has organised a get-together in the UCD bar next week (between the Old and the New Student Centre) from ca. 6 to 7pm.

Source

Thursday 30th January

6-7pm

UCD Clubhouse Bar

It will be a great opportunity to catch up and if you're new to the society, a great way to meet people! We don't bite, promise! The Clubhouse has a great range of alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks for very decent prices and it also has warm food and snacks.

So what are you waiting for? Join us for a relaxed evening on campus!

Team Archaeology on its way !

Dear everyone,

A huge thank you to all who came today to our coffee morning today, and to the Relay for Life information and recruitment session we held ! We are very happy to announce that we have a team of 15 motivated members ready to take the floor on the day of the event! (Date TBC, somewhere in early April).
So a big thank you to everyone who joined the team today !

Relay for Life information and recruitment session, 22/01/2014

If you could not sign up today and would still like to take part, here are the options available to you:

1. There are still some places on the team! Come to our next coffee morning (Wednesday 29th January) for a chance to sign up: it's only a fiver and it's such a good deed. 
2. Join us as one of our bakers or fancy-dressers/reenactors on the day! We will need volunteers to bake for a bake sale, and to dress up in historical costumes to promote our fundraising stall
3. Can't bake or don't have a costume? You can still join us on the day and give us a hand in setting up, decorating the stall and manning the stall throughout the day. Any help will be appreciated!

If you have any queries, please just drop me an email and I'll be glad to answer them. Relay for Life 2014 promises to be just as fantastic as last year, and we are looking forward to seeing you on the day !
You can read more about Relay for Life on the Irish Cancer Society website.  Find out more about what we did last year by watching the video we made with all the pictures from the day ! And why not follow the UCD Relay for Life page on Facebook?

Thanks again,

Alexandra Guglielmi
Social Media Coordinator

PS: We apologise for the size of the only room we could secure for the day and hope that you had a good time. It was good to see so many of you back after the Christmas break.

Coffee morning in the Old Student Centre , 22/01/2014

Coffee morning in the Old Student Centre , 22/01/2014

Coffee morning in the Old Student Centre , 22/01/2014

Coffee morning in the Old Student Centre , 22/01/2014

Our next coffee morning will be Wednesday 29th of January and will take place in rooms 1-3 of the Old Student centre, from 12-2pm.