LAB: Laboratory for Artefact Biographies

LAB: Laboratory for Artefact Biographies Archaeological science laboratory for the study of past material culture School of Archaeology You are very welcome to contact us if interested!

At the LAB we work with all kinds of inorganic materials including metals, ceramics and lithics. Our facilities include stereo- and reflected- / transmitted light microscopes, a handheld XRF, 3D scanner and 3D printer, as well as instrumentation for elemental and lead isotope analysis through our running collaborations. We welcome early career researchers who wish to work on the analytical investi

gation on any aspect of inorganic past material culture. External funding can be acquired through the Irish Research Council scheme for doctoral and postdoctoral research.

New publication out by the LAB and The Fall of 1200 BC team led by Vana Orfanou
16/07/2024

New publication out by the LAB and The Fall of 1200 BC team led by Vana Orfanou

UCD School of Archaeology invites applications for a 1-year fixed term Teaching Fellow!
20/05/2024

UCD School of Archaeology invites applications for a 1-year fixed term Teaching Fellow!

Job Opportunity
Teaching Fellow, Temporary Fixed Term 1 year

UCD School of Archaeology seeks to appoint a Teaching Fellow for the 2024/2025 academic year primarily to support teaching in the Schoolโ€™s undergraduate programmes.

Competition Ref. No.: 017323.
For details of the position please visit:
https://www.ucd.ie/workatucd/jobs/

For more information on UCD School of Archaeology please visit: www.ucd.ie/archaeology.

University College Dublin, UCD College of Social Sciences and Law, Institute of Archaeologists of Ireland, National Monuments Service - Archaeology, National Museum of Ireland

  publication alert from the LAB and The Fall of 1200 BC team โœ’๏ธHave you heard of โ€˜๐™œ๐™๐™ค๐™จ๐™ฉ ๐™›๐™ง๐™–๐™˜๐™ฉ๐™ž๐™ค๐™ฃ๐™จโ€™? No? Then youโ€™re in ...
06/03/2024

publication alert from the LAB and The Fall of 1200 BC team โœ’๏ธ

Have you heard of โ€˜๐™œ๐™๐™ค๐™จ๐™ฉ ๐™›๐™ง๐™–๐™˜๐™ฉ๐™ž๐™ค๐™ฃ๐™จโ€™? No? Then youโ€™re in for a treat because we have just published a new study spearheaded by the amazing Dr Caroline Bruyere, where we demonstrate that:

The frequent mixing of copper from different sources with varying lead concentrations to make objects resulted in the masking of the low-lead LIA signatures by the high-lead ones. This means that in ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฑ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐š ๐ก๐ข๐ ๐ก-๐ฅ๐ž๐š๐ ๐จ๐ซ๐ž ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐š ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฐ-๐ฅ๐ž๐š๐ ๐จ๐ซ๐ž ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐๐ฎ๐œ๐ž ๐š ๐›๐ข๐š๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฅ๐ž๐š๐ ๐ข๐ฌ๐จ๐ญ๐จ๐ฉ๐ž ๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ฌ, ๐ฅ๐ž๐š๐ง๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ญ๐จ๐ฐ๐š๐ซ๐๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ก๐ข๐ ๐ก-๐ฅ๐ž๐š๐ ๐ž๐ง๐.

This has extremely important implications on how we interpret Lead Isotope Analyses in ancient copper-based alloys and on how we understand trade and craftsmanship in the past generally in the past and in the ๐˜“๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ฆ ๐˜‰๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ป๐˜ฆ ๐˜ˆ๐˜จ๐˜ฆ ๐˜Š๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ฑ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ข๐˜ฏ ๐˜‰๐˜ข๐˜ด๐˜ช๐˜ฏ specifically

Read it all on our recent paper as part of The Fall of 1200 BC project:

๐™๐™ง๐™–๐™™๐™š, ๐™ง๐™š๐™˜๐™ฎ๐™˜๐™ก๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐™ข๐™ž๐™ญ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐™ž๐™ฃ ๐™ก๐™ค๐™˜๐™–๐™ก ๐™ข๐™š๐™ฉ๐™–๐™ก ๐™ข๐™–๐™ฃ๐™–๐™œ๐™š๐™ข๐™š๐™ฃ๐™ฉ ๐™จ๐™ฉ๐™ง๐™–๐™ฉ๐™š๐™œ๐™ž๐™š๐™จ ๐™ค๐™› ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š ๐™ก๐™–๐™ฉ๐™š๐™ง ๐˜ฝ๐™ง๐™ค๐™ฃ๐™ฏ๐™š ๐˜ผ๐™œ๐™š ๐™จ๐™ค๐™ช๐™ฉ๐™ ๐˜พ๐™–๐™ง๐™ฅ๐™–๐™ฉ๐™๐™ž๐™–๐™ฃ ๐˜ฝ๐™–๐™จ๐™ž๐™ฃ: ๐™‡๐™š๐™–๐™™ ๐™ž๐™จ๐™ค๐™ฉ๐™ค๐™ฅ๐™š ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐™˜๐™๐™š๐™ข๐™ž๐™˜๐™–๐™ก ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™–๐™ก๐™ฎ๐™จ๐™š๐™จ ๐™ค๐™› ๐™๐™ค๐™–๐™ง๐™™๐™š๐™™ ๐™ข๐™š๐™ฉ๐™–๐™ก๐™ฌ๐™ค๐™ง๐™ 

Open access, of course

DOI: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440324000232?via%3Dihub

Have you heard about the metallurgical experiments we contducted back in September? Here's a little update from the samp...
01/03/2024

Have you heard about the metallurgical experiments we contducted back in September? Here's a little update from the sample processing stage ๐Ÿ“ท

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