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Breaking ground, finding graves : reports on the excavations of burials by the National Museum of Ireland, 1927-2006 / edited by Mary Cahill and Maeve Sikora ; principal osteoarchaeologists, Laureen Buckley and Barra O Donnabhâain ; principal illustrators, Niamh O Broin and Angela Gallagher. - Dublin : Wordwell, in association with the National Museum of Ireland, 2011. - 2 v. xxvii, 670 pages ; xxi, 605 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 31 cm - National Museum of Ireland. Monograph series ; 4. . - National Museum of Ireland monograph series ; 4. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Vol.1: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Neolithic graves -- Chapter 3: Early Bronze Age graves -- Vol.2: Chapter 4: Iron Age and early medieval graves, c.300 BC - c. AD 1200 -- Chapter 5: Late medieval graves, c. AD 1200 - 1600, and post-medieval graves, c. AD 1600 - 1800 -- Chapter 6: Graves of indeterminate date -- Chapter 7: Inventory of uninvestigated reports of human remains -- Chapter 8: General survey of the osteoarchaeology.

ISBN: 9781905569618 v. 1

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Excavations (Archaeology)--Ireland
Burial--History--Ireland
Human remains (Archaeology)--Ireland

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Ireland--Antiquities.