The Pre-History of Ulster until the arrival of St Patrick - A Lecture by Dr Cormac McSparron of QUB
Wed 17 Mar, 2:30PM
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The Pre-History of Ulster Until The Arrival Of St Patrick - A Lecture By Dr Cormac McSparron of Queen's University, Belfast.
An online lecture, brought to you through Zoom
This event is 'Pay What You Can'. Please give what you feel would be an appropriate price for this show. We recommend £5 per ticket.
This lecture is a whistle stop tour of Irish
prehistory, focused on Ulster.
The lecture begins with the retreat of the
icecaps, discusses the earliest known hunter gather settlers in Ireland approximately 8000BC, before moving on to look at
the first farming communities in what archaeologists call the New Stone Age or
Neolithic commencing about 4000BC years ago.
We will discuss, briefly, these first farmers, settlements, their
technology and the impressive megalithic tombs which they have left scattered
across the landscape.
We will next look at the first
metallurgists, who arrive at our shores around 2500BC mining and making
copper, and the cultural changes which occur in their wake: wedge tombs, the
cist burials of the Early Bronze Age , the hillforts of the later bronze age, ,
the manufacture of increasingly sophisticated bronze tools and weapons, and the
social implications of these changes.
We will finally look at the sudden end of Bronze Age Ireland, around 800BC and the succeeding Iron Age a period known as much for
its invisibility as its visibility in the Irish archaeological record. On the way I hope to
touch such thorny topics as DNA, migration, and whether there was such a thing
as "Celts".
For more information about this talk please email Roisin Daley r.daley@ulster.ac.uk
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