Team | Irish Cave Bones

Our Research Team

Multidisciplinary. Collaborative. Innovative.

We collaborate with various researchers and partners with our research.

Research Scientist (COALESCE),

Co-PI (Royal Irish Academy)

Principal Investigator reindeer/human project

Zooarchaeologist & Quaternary faunal specialist, Palaeoecology, GIS, Photography

Dr Ruth Carden

University College Dublin

Ireland

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Principal Investigator (COALESCE),

Co-PI (Royal Irish Academy)

Assoc. Prof. Helen Lewis

University College Dublin

Ireland

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Project Research Partner (COALESCE)

Principal Investigator (Royal Irish Academy)

Dr Richard Jennings

Liverpool John Moores University

Project Partner

Cork Speleological Group; Clare Crawlers

& The Breifne Caving Club; (Speleological Union of Ireland)

Stan Drapala, Jerry Ahearne, Brian Mac Coitir, Denise McCullagh, Monika Jur, Daniel Drozd, Terry Casserly, Michael Burford, Rowena

Project Partner - radiocarbon dating

Dr Maarten Blaauw

14CHRONO

Queen's University Belfast

Northern Ireland

Project Partner - stable isotopes

Dr Brian Hayden

University of Brunswich

Canada

Project Partner - aDNA canids

Dr Pontus Skoglund

The Francis Crick Institute

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Project Partner - cave karst geology

Dr Mike Simms

National Museums Northern Ireland

Project Partner - mapping, 3D scanning, photogrammetry, forensic science, GMM/morphometrics, Karst cave archaeology

Assoc. Prof. Patrick Randolph-Quinney

Uppsala University

Sweden

Collaborator - ZooMS

Dr Mike Buckley

University of Manchester

Collaborator - aDNA

Prof. Dan Bradley

Trinity College Dublin

Ireland

Project Partner

Co-PI reindeer/human project

Dr Allan McDevitt

Atlantic Technological University

Galway, Ireland

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Artist-in-residence

John Flynn - Castle Studio

John is collaborating with Ruth Carden in the creation of unique science-art fusion interpretative art based on the Irish Cave Bones research. Exciting things to come later in 2023+!

Our cave archaeologists

Our highly experienced cave archaeologists, past and present, form an integral part of our excavation team, working in confined underground spaces, the retrieval of artfacts and cave bones, and recording within each cave site.

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Phil Kenny

Cave site supervisor

Clare Ryan

Senior cave archaeologist

Louise Callan

Senior cave archaeologist

Keziah Warburton

Cave archaeologist