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Welcome
Welcome to our blog. This reports on a UCD School of Archaeology project that aims to build a Mesolithic (middle stone age) house in the Centre for Experimental Archaeology at UCD. Basing our...
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Tree felling
After a lot of planning and organising, on Friday 22nd Feb we were able to get underway with the practical side of the Building Mesolithic project – felling some of the trees that will form the...
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Plant fibre cord
One of the things that sometimes gets forgotten in understanding prehistoric lives is the importance of cord. Lime bast cord As with many materials, when we buy string from the shop we rarely stop to...
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Building the framework
Work on the house has resumed over the last few weeks, with the focus being on getting the timber framework up. We’re very grateful to Eoin Donnelly for advice and expertise in this process. The...
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Raising the Roof – and surviving the floods
The house is finished. After two days (Tues/Wed) of non-stop work we’ve laid a turf roof over the entire structure. smoke rising from our fire The timber and wattle frame support...
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building mesolithic in the news…
A key aspect of this project was public engagement – taking the opportunity to promote archaeology, experimental archaeology and the study of the Mesolithic and hunter-gatherers in general. I’m...
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collapse, but not failure…
It is with mixed feelings that I find myself having to describe the collapse of our Mesolithic house which managed to stand for a somewhat shorter period of time (three months) than we had hoped . We...
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