Irish Cave Bones - Ruth Carden
Channel: The Ulster Archaeological Society
Date: 2023-04-25

The Irish Cave Bones Project has been a long running project with stops and starts since 2007, started by Ruth Carden with subsequent multidisciplinary collaborators joining over the years. This talk will introduce the origins of the project, its timeline and pivotal milestones, right up to now. Ruth shall discuss the importance of these bones and current excavations that are ongoing with the project team. Future works will be discussed too and a teaser to a pivotal and significant moment in Irish prehistory shall be dropped - exciting times! 


Ruth is a (palaeo)zoologist, zooarchaeologist and Quaternary faunal specialist working in Ireland on commercial and academic projects for the past 20+ years. Currently she is a part time Research Scientist with the School of Archaeology, UCD on the Irish Cave Bones Project. She has wide-ranging commercial and research interests which are driven by a multidisciplinary approach involving key themes including zoology, palaeoecology, GIS spatial modelling, zooarchaeology and the dynamics between human-animal relationships, and the palaeoenvironment during the past 50,000 years.