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Once were Celtic warriors? Searching for the Bronze Age origins of warrior identity in Ireland

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11/11/2016
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Like many people in Ireland, I grew up on stories of the great heroes of our mythological cycles – Cuchulainn, Fionn MacCumhaill, the Red Branch Knights, the Fianna and more. These are some of Europe’s earliest documented tales and are set in a quite recent prehistoric past, yet one which retains a strong resonance today […]

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A tale of two hoards: Looking for prehistoric metalworker’s tool kits in Ireland and Bosnia

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29/08/2016
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Hindsight can ironically make it hard to conceive just how revolutionary the changes of the Bronze Age were for the people living in Europe at the time. If we imagine a world without metal, we imagine most of the human past. But then, over the course of a few hundred years, what was once a prestigious […]

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