Welcome to IPEAN

The Irish Palaeoecology and Environmental Archaeology Network website is a vehicle to facilitate communication between environmental archaeologists and palaeoecologists working independently, based in companies and in academic and research positions.

We hope you find the site useful, whether you are looking for a specialist, are interested in joining or are a current member.  We welcome comments, feedback, suggestions and corrections.

We particularly welcome details of upcoming seminars, conferences, workshops and courses relevant to environmental archaeology and palaeoecology.

news and events

UCC is advertising a permanent lectureship in Environmental Archaeology, closing date, May 16

April 20-21st, IAI Spring Conference. Coastal Communities from the Mesolithic to the Modern, Hotel Meyrick, Eyre Square, Galway.

May 9th,The Wild Park: Exploring Livestock Parks in the Lordships of Gaelic Ireland, lecture by Elizabeth Fitzpatrick, Longroom Hub, Trinity College

May 14-15th, Early Farmers: the view from Archaeology and Science, Cardiff University. 

May 19, Friends of Medieval Dublin Seminars, Robert Emmet Theatre, Trinity College

May 19th, Dublin in the Grip of an Ice Age, one day IQUA bus tour to the Wicklow Mountains led by Prof Pete Coxon: Contact pcoxon@tcd.ie

June 6th-9th, International Landscape Archaeology Conference , Freie Universität, Berlin

June 19, Russell Coope Lectures A day of 20 lectures in honour of Russell Coope, Royal Holloway, London.

August 29th-September 1st, Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists University of Helsinki, Finland.

Other events

Susan Lyons asked Gianmarco Cattari to write a GIS course tailored to the needs of environmental archaeologists. The course was a great success when it was held on January 21-22nd.