Kevin Tillison
Kevin Tillison is a PhD candidate at UCD School of Archaeology, University College Dublin in Ireland. www.ucd.ie/archaeology/research/phd/tillison_kevin/
Thesis title:
"Life, Death, and the Afterlife: Understanding Wood and Woodcraft in Early Medieval Ireland, A.D. 400-1100."
His current research interests include organic artefacts, in particular wooden objects and their connection to materiality, craft, social identity, and culture.
While completing his BA in Anthropology at the University of Central Florida, he was also working as a woodworker and lumber salesperson, specialising in reclaimed materials. This experience expanded his understanding of timber from a variety of tree species and woodworking or woodcraft.
While completing his MA at UCD, he was given the opportunity to increase his practical skills in bronze age and early medieval woodworking techniques within UCD's Centre for Experimental Archaeology and Material Culture (CEAMC).
In the future, he hopes to continue to expand his knowledge of wood and woodcraft through the study of archaeological, historical, folklore and ethnographic evidence in the historical and prehistorical periods as well as other organic objects which more rarely survive in the archaeological record.
Specialisations: wood species identification (waterlogged and charcoal), worked wood analysis, and experimental archaeology
Supervisors: Dr. Rob Sands and Professor Aidan O'Sullivan
Address: Dublin, Leinster, Ireland
Thesis title:
"Life, Death, and the Afterlife: Understanding Wood and Woodcraft in Early Medieval Ireland, A.D. 400-1100."
His current research interests include organic artefacts, in particular wooden objects and their connection to materiality, craft, social identity, and culture.
While completing his BA in Anthropology at the University of Central Florida, he was also working as a woodworker and lumber salesperson, specialising in reclaimed materials. This experience expanded his understanding of timber from a variety of tree species and woodworking or woodcraft.
While completing his MA at UCD, he was given the opportunity to increase his practical skills in bronze age and early medieval woodworking techniques within UCD's Centre for Experimental Archaeology and Material Culture (CEAMC).
In the future, he hopes to continue to expand his knowledge of wood and woodcraft through the study of archaeological, historical, folklore and ethnographic evidence in the historical and prehistorical periods as well as other organic objects which more rarely survive in the archaeological record.
Specialisations: wood species identification (waterlogged and charcoal), worked wood analysis, and experimental archaeology
Supervisors: Dr. Rob Sands and Professor Aidan O'Sullivan
Address: Dublin, Leinster, Ireland
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This project collates the data and discussion on evidence for woodworking and wooden artefacts using both existing and new assemblages. Part of this project explores how people made, used, and deposited wooden objects, in particular, exploring how the processes of repairing and recycling communicate a unique treatment of objects less frequently discussed. This project, also investigates woodworkers’ impact on the rural economy and explores the possibility of an Irish woodcraft ‘tradition’. In addition, this project investigates the concept of craft through the use of contemporary early medieval contexts, historical literature, and modern sources (experimental archaeology and ethnoarchaeology) and its relation to wood and woodcraft, and their role within societies and cultures.
This project collates the data and discussion on evidence for woodworking and wooden artefacts using both existing and new assemblages. Part of this project explores how people made, used, and deposited wooden objects, in particular, exploring how the processes of repairing and recycling communicate a unique treatment of objects less frequently discussed. This project, also investigates woodworkers’ impact on the rural economy and explores the possibility of an Irish woodcraft ‘tradition’. In addition, this project investigates the concept of craft through the use of contemporary early medieval contexts, historical literature, and modern sources (experimental archaeology and ethnoarchaeology) and its relation to wood and woodcraft, and their role within societies and cultures.