Nikolah Gilligan

Diploma in Nutrition, Irish Training and Educational Centre, Dublin, 2011
MSc Environmental Archaeology, The Institute of Archaeology, University College London, 2010
BA Hons. Archaeology and Ancient History (with Latin) University of Wales, Lampeter, 1999

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E-mail: nikolahg@gmail.com

Phone +353-87-9171105

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Biography

I have been working in commercial archaeology since 1999. During this time I worked in Ireland and Australia on small private developments and large infrastructural projects. I have also worked with the British School of Athens at the Bronze Age site of Phylakopi in Milos, Greece.

I returned to university in 2009 to gain an MSc. in Environmental Archaeology with a particular focus on archaeobotany. My dissertation was based on an assemblage from Bronze Age levels of a multiperiod tell site in Syria and was entitled Tell Shiyukh Tahtani; Diet and Storage. I will continue to be the site archaeobotanist while the annual excavations are ongoing.

Although I have a general interest in archaeobotanical assemblages of all periods, my research interests are primarily focused on the economic and dietary information that can be gained from Neolithic and Bronze Age assemblages in Ireland, Europe and the Near East. I am also interested in adaptation to climate change in the past and how this can be assessed through archaeobotanical assemblages.

Publications

 

Barker, L.W., Gilligan, N. & Fegan, G. (forthcoming) Laois Burial Grounds Survey 2011 (Vol. 2: Gazetteer of Burial Grounds)
Gilligan, N. (2011) The Bronze Age landscape of Aughinish, Co. Limerick. North Munster Antiquarian Journal. Vol 51.
Gilligan, N. 2008.  The Aughinish fulacht fiadh. In Rusal Aughinish News. Vol. 27. No. 2. Aughinish Alumina Ltd., Co. Limerick

Unpublished reports available directly from me