StillJustRena

StillJustRena, 8 months ago to random

I will be talking online this sunday, about Pictish horses and wee baldy drunken men, and ponies from god knows where! If this sounds like your jam, Tickets available here!

https://www.thepictishartssociety.org.uk/Events

StillJustRena, 8 months ago to random

@RasherMurphy do you want a code for the Blue celestial realms where we all are hanging out? Let me know on email!

VikingDublinDogs, 9 months ago to Dogs

Our crowdfunder closes tonight, all the #Viking #dogs #wolves #horses are about to start a new journey. If you can spare any cash, please support us to find out more about these, their lives and roles over a 1000 years ago. Thx please RT. https://www.vikingdublindogs.ie/category/all-products

StillJustRena, 10 months ago to random

Here's our interview with Shindig Podcast for those who don't have Spotify ( like me ).@vikingdublindogs @ruthcarden and Mary Valante

Tom Horne is from Rubicon, and Luke from Red River Archapeology and they do wonders on outreach
( if I'm distracted it's because my creaky blind terrier was being a total asshat in the background )

https://youtu.be/2QJnJP5evbQ

VikingDublinDogs, 10 months ago to random

8. I like to think those dogs and ponies are too 😊

Thanks for a great week – Im back to the Iron Age now with my own IRC Project, Making Time !
See some of you at EAA? and others? Maybe round Wood Quay,, we’ll pass each other, while Im feeding seagulls, you'll look quizically and say, aren’t you that wan from Twitter?"
Let's sit and watch the Liffey together and imagine those dragon prowed ships?

I'm done. This was @StillJustRena

StillJustRena, 10 months ago to random

Part 8.It’s an era that’s so important to set up the modern world as it’s inextricably caught up in how we in the modern world perceive our own irish identity. It all comes down to identity at the end of the day, how we express that – be it now or in the past. I’m funded by @IRC, there’s a lot of papers now in various stages of waiting publication, review and writing, there’s likely a book at the end, but I’d like to make it one that everyone could read not just academics. Watch this space!

StillJustRena, 10 months ago to random

Part 7.It’s about looking at minute thingsm and then scanning out, cinematically almost, to see the big picture of Ireland in a time of chaos.
Spoiler alert – the elite of the Irish Iron Age aren’t the glorious demi-gods of Jim Fitzpatrick’s paintings. They’re very human, and caught up in main chances ( something which would be important again through the early medieval when we look at those wee islands off the coast of Downpatrick – and again during the Viking period: that east coast!).

StillJustRena, 10 months ago to random

Part 6.Things can ‘bunch’ up at parts of the surface too, so there can be different readings from different parts of the same object! But it cant tell you things are in there that arent and sometimes, if Jupiter is ascending and Venus and Pluto are in trine, the results can be remarkably good.
We’re seeing some really interesting things right now, about who’s in communication with who in different parts of Europe, and when things start to change – and what changes first.

StillJustRena, 10 months ago to random

Part 5. Now there’s a bit of snobbery about pXRFs, so let me give why I chose this method – it wont destroy objects. It acts as a signpost of what’s in an alloy although you have to be aware that deposition can cause funny old enrichments and chemical changes. The beam also only goes a few microns down, so you always have to find a clean part, and also be aware that when metal is molten, elements don’t settle homogenously – especially in the past.

StillJustRena, 10 months ago to random

Part 4. That mythology was important for nation building, in modern |independant Ireland, weaving in all the old stories ( a lot have truth in them – that’s all I’ll say for now), but it’s tricky to pick apart much loved legends which the public associate with the Iron Age from archaeological hardcore science and evidence.
Im using a bit of everything on this: art, manufacture styles, experimental and XRF

StillJustRena, 10 months ago to random

part 3. ( probably around 600BC ish) through to Christianity getting its feet under the table with it becoming politically expedient to convert – elites will always gravitate to where power can be maintained. It’s all just been one big mushy slushy bog, shimmering in twilight and the odd flash of shining metal coming up from the grey waters, sometimes in the hands of a sidhe and others on a watery maned fairy horse.

StillJustRena, 10 months ago to random

2. ? As people communicated face to face and wouldn’t have needed one- it would be a novelty thing with a short life. So ideas, lifestyles, and making things are all linked. This launches an opportunity to look for where the ‘wobbles’ are – because the changes in what’s being made and how starts to illustrate the phases of Ireland’s wonky af Iron Age. Y’see, we don’t have a proper sequence of time and change from the start of the Iron Age

StillJustRena, 10 months ago to random

Part 1: Recently I’ve felt a bit sad; my wee project seems so unimportant compared to other things and the state of thew world today. So I was given advice to tell you why I think it’s important, and why I care, and what I’m up to.
The project is called Making Time, as it’s all about how you make things and when you make them – ideas and technology change. Eg, you wouldn’t find an iPhone in 1978, and would they even want one then?

StillJustRena, 10 months ago to random

If you havent checkked out @VikingDublinDogs website, you probably should. Because it's magic - every tee-shirt, dog bowl, coffee mug and tote turns into part of a radiocarbon date that we can start to understand the animal/human relationships, and trade, of doggos in medieval Dublin and beyond.

StillJustRena, 10 months ago to random

Such lovely details in this little Albanian bronze - can't you just imagine the wind blowing through the horses mane?
https://www.getty.edu/news/horse-and-rider-from-albania-statuette-conservation-exhibition/?fbclid=IwAR0MoHpGgQbib0uz02Wfnk0kytlLx5IQ7EpNtlfyypPyb6e4FN_v2WULeKg

StillJustRena, 10 months ago to random

The folks of #EXARC let me review a book on sustainable practices connected to new draft methods, and here I've reviewed it!
https://exarc.net/issue-2023-3/mm/book-review-draft-animals-past-present-and-future-claus-kropp-and-lena-zoll-eds

StillJustRena, 11 months ago to Archaeology

If you like horsie archaeology you maybe would like #Cheiron journal, which is an open access journal on all things #horse
Just click on the title of the paper you'd like to read, and lo and behold! no paywall. This was my guest editor edition, and our paper is a wistful wee one about change to the modern world, Forging Rural Heritage, but they're all good!
#archaeology #horse #equestrian #openaccess

https://trivent-publishing.eu/home/159-cheiron-vol-3issue-1-2023.html

StillJustRena, 11 months ago to random

A wee while ago I was asked to talk about British lorinery to the Royal Archaeological Institute, If you've nowt better to do, here it is on youtube!

https://www.royalarchinst.org/rai-lectures-online/13-April-20225pm