Posted on 01/08/2009 8:06:58 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Ireland's first farmers settled the island later than some sites from Ulster have long suggested, but did so in a short period which may also have seen parallel migration into western England and Scotland. Radiocarbon dates indicate that sites from Co Kerry in the South West to Co Derry in Northern Ireland were all settled within the century after 3700BC. The immigrants built rectangular timber houses up to a hundred square metres in area, cultivated cereals such as wheat and barley, used flint tools and made plain pottery bowls... They were not the first people in Ireland: Mesolithic fishers and gatherers lived in Kerry and Waterford, keeping cattle, and many years ago the site of Ballynagilly in Ulster yielded dates around 4000BC associated with what seems to have been a cattle-keeping settlement. Even earlier palaeolithic hunters may also have lived on the island... Many of the radiocarbon dates obtained using older technology are not of "gold standard," McSparron claims; only those run using AMS (accelerator mass spectrometry), from short-lived plant species such as nuts rather than long-lived timbers... data from peat bogs which suggest that land clearance did not begin until after 3850BC. Sites of almost exactly the same age as the Irish ones are known from Llandegai in northwest Wales and from Lismore Fields in the West Midlands, and coeval structures are known from Claish and Balbridie in northern Scotland... Why these houses ceased to be built after around 3600BC is a mystery, but possibly population growth led to the rise of larger settlements, and even to defended ones as competition for the best land developed. A palisaded hamlet at Thornhill, Co Derry, may be an example of this, while in England Neolithic hilltop settlements such as Crickley Hill in the Cotswolds have been known for decades...
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Let me know if they find the spot where Conan battled the Picts.
Yes, but when did they make the whiskey?
But the whiskey was so good they decided to stay.
Sample selection is extremely critical for obtaining accurate radiocarbon dates!
That’s just terrible, what a reprehensible stereotype. Just for that, a bunch of Irish drunks are coming over to your houses. They’ll get in an argument about what they should do, then pass out on your front stoops. That’ll teach ya.
That’s under water now. ;’)
That was a gift from the fairies and the leprechauns.
You’ll find Conann, king of the Fomor, battling “The Nemedians”.
Close enough?...:)
http://www.jimfitzpatrick.ie/mythology/invasions.html
http://www.aislingmagazine.com/aislingmagazine/articles/TAM24/TheFive.html
An old saying claims it was a gift from God;
“God gave the Irish whiskey so they would not rule the world. Then he gave them the potato famine so America would.”
It’s 19 degrees out there, they better bring some whiskey. ;)
Just don’t bring up the subject of Drambuie....:))
Without Irish drunks, the world would not have Irish spelling.
A hundred square meters is a McMansion.
Talk about coincidence, they apparently did that 5700 years ago in Ireland.
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