A Chronological Framework for the Period 208 BC to AD 600
The period, from the Iron Age through to what is sometimes called the Early Christian Period or the Early Middle Ages, includes some of the most enigmatic centuries in the whole of Irish history. In this article we intend to look at various strands of evidence that have become available from the per...
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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2013
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| Summary: | The period, from the Iron Age through to what is sometimes called the Early Christian Period or the Early Middle Ages, includes some of the most enigmatic centuries in the whole of Irish history. In this article we intend to look at various strands of evidence that have become available from the perspective of dendrochronology. However, interpretation of dendrochronological results works best when there is other information to push against. In the case of this period one of the best sources of parallel information – information essentially as well dated as tree rings – has to be records of atmospheric chemistry from the ice cores that have been drilled at several locations across Greenland. Combining such information with evidence from tree rings, palaeoecological research, and occasionally from history, allows us to trace out a series of events and episodes that form the beginnings of an understanding of this period between the Iron Age flowering – with sites such as Emain Mache, Tara, Cruachain – and the Early Christian flowering – widespread foundation of churches and monasteries. |
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