Pict’n Mix: art and identity in Ireland and Scotland’s Iron Ages
New research of a small collection of unusual Iron Age artefacts, mostly found in the north of Ireland, has led to a re-examination of communication between Ireland and Scotland, well before the early medieval kingdom of Dal Riada. Recent work carried out by Scottish scientists and archaeologists on the DNA of small groups of Picts have shown a much more mobile people than once thought, inter-related to other groups across Britain and Ireland. Could the designs on the (possibly) Irish objects be connected to the earliest phases of Pictish identity?
Rena Maguire graduated from Queen’s University Belfast, where she is currently a postdoctoral Visiting Research Fellow. She was an IRC funded Research fellow in University College Dublin, where her work used alloy and art changes in metal objects from the Iron Age to establish techno-cultural changes and thereby create more precise chronologies for the period. She specialises in Iron Age material culture, with a speciality focus on ancient equitation, lorinery and weaponry. She is active in EXARC as practitioner and editor of the journal and within editorial work with the Ulster Archaeology Society. Rena is also on the Council of the Royal Archaeological Institute., London, believing that there are no borders or boundaries within archaeology.
Date and Time: Wednesday 10th December, 1pm-2pm
Location: Lecture Theatre, 2 Titanic Boulevard, Titanic Quarter
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