Eight separate excavations were carried out after the county council undertook two road realignment projects on the N73 (main road between Mallow and Mitchelstown) close to the villages of Shanballymore and Kildorrery.
Posted on 09/01/2020 7:57:22 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
The foundations of a 5,700-year-old Neolithic house, evidence of Bronze Age burials and Iron Age smelting have been discovered by archaeologists as a result of excavations at the sites of two road realignment projects in Co. Cork.
They were unearthed in a total of eight separate excavations carried out after the county council undertook two road realignment projects on the N73 (the main road between Mallow and Mitchelstown) close to the villages of Shanballymore and Kildorrery.
On one of the sites, archaeologists discovered the foundations of a Neolithic house dating back to approximately 3,700 BC, which they believe may have belonged to some of the first farming families to inhabit the area.
It's believed it once formed part of a small rural settlement founded by these pioneering early farmers.
Pottery, stone tools and grain from the same period were also discovered at the site.
It's believed that farming knowledge would only have arrived in Ireland around 200 years before this community was established in the North Cork area.
Neolithic settlers were also the first people in Ireland to produce pottery and used distinctive stone tools, examples of which were found at the site.
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Thanks, SunkenCiv.
Another interesting article.
Considering that one of my grandfathers was from County Cork, that just might be the manse of an ancestor.
...and a fine Neolithic house it is at that.
Was it Fred and Wilma’s old place?
That’s not supposed to be there. This is the age of the first ‘human’ civilizations in Sumer. Heavy stone work and metal work was typically relegated exclusively to the cradle of civilization. That’s an interesting find.
Given the extreme age of it, odds are probably good. :^)
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Be interesting if they could use DNA from the grain to trace its area of origin, as a clue to where those farmers came from; or of their trade contacts.
My pleasure.
Whomever they were, they weren't Irish, or the grain wouldn't even be there, it would have been made into beer.
Two Irishmen walked out of a pub.
Hey, it could happen.
Indeed it is. And of course, the leprechauns preceded humans in Ireland, during the Weeolithic.
The earliest settlers came to Ireland around 10,000 years ago, in Stone Age times. There are still remnants of their presence scatter across the island. Mountsandel in Coleraine in the North of Ireland is the oldest known site of settlement in Ireland - remains of woven huts, stone tools and food such as berries and hazelnuts were discovered at the site in 1972.
But where did the early Irish come from? For a long time the myth of Irish history has been that the Irish are Celts. Many people still refer to Irish, Scottish and Welsh as Celtic culture - and the assumtion has been that they were Celts who migrated from central Europe around 500BCE. Keltoi was the name given by the Ancient Greeks to a 'barbaric' (in their eyes) people who lived to the north of them in central Europe. While early Irish art shows some similarities of style to central European art of the Keltoi, historians have also recognised many significant differences between the two cultures.
The latest research into Irish DNA has confirmed that the early inhabitants of Ireland were not directly descended from the Keltoi of central Europe. In fact the closest genetic relatives of the Irish in Europe are to be found in the north of Spain in the region known as the Basque Country. These same ancestors are shared to an extent with the people of Britain - especially the Scottish.
DNA testing through the male Y chromosome has shown that Irish males have the highest incidence of the haplogroup 1 gene in Europe.DNA shows Irish people have more complex origins than previously thought [01/11/2014]
The name of the area is thought to have been derived from the light, balsa-like wood the Neolithites used to cap their earthen and clay jugs of proto-boozian alcoholic beverages.
One large capped jug was found next to a pile of well preserved neolithic vomit.
That deserves a complimentary rimshot at the least.
Looks like my backyard.
Wakanda?
Great location, nice layout...needs a little TLC.
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