Mapping Death

Year 1 (starting May 2008):

• Compilation of data and design of a searchable database of burials
• The holding of an open Symposium on 22nd November 2008, entitled ‘Mapping Death: people, boundaries and territories in Ireland, 1st to 8th centuries AD’
• Post-graduate seminars relating to the project to be offered in UCD in Autumn Term 2008
• Preliminary entry of data and testing of database

Year 2:

• Continuing entry of data into database
• Testing of database throughout archaeological community
• Compilation of the inter-disciplinary study and interpretation of burial practices. Extension of collaboration with international colleagues
• Continuation of interaction with scientific community with regard to use of isotopic/strontium analysis and c14 dating
• The holding of an International two-day Symposium  on 27th/28th November 2009

Year 3:

• Database to become fully accessible
• Completion of an in-depth inter-disciplinary study of a series of burial sites
• Production of guidelines on aspects of Irish burials
• Production of a blueprint on inter-disciplinary studies (archaeology, landscape, history, documentary sources)

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