Marion Dowd

Lecturer in Prehistoric Archaeology, Atlantic Technological University (formerly IT Sligo)

https://itsligo.academia.edu/mariondowd

Marion Dowd holds a BA (1995), MA (1997) and PhD (2004) in archaeology from University College Cork. She has been employed at Atlantic Technological University (formerly ITSligo) as a Permanent full-time Lecturer in Prehistoric Archaeology since 2005. She specialises in the archaeology of Ireland's caves and has published and lectured widely in the subject, including five books (one published by Archaeopress) and multiple peer-reviewed papers and book chapters in national and international journals and publications. She has excavated numerous caves around Ireland adopting a muli-disciplinary approach.

BOOKS BY THIS CONTRIBUTOR

An Irish Civil War Dugout: Tormore Cave, County Sligo

Marion Dowd

Combining archaeology, local and military histories, community recollections, and landscape studies, this groundbreaking study, the first excavation of a Civil War site in Ireland, facilitates a wider discussion of the role of dugouts in guerrilla warfare and offers a unique view on the Irish revolutionary period at a regional and national scale. READ MORE

Hardback: £38.00

Archaeological excavations in Moneen Cave, the Burren, Co. Clare

Marion Dowd

In 2011, cavers exploring a little-known cave on Moneen Mountain in County Clare in the west of Ireland discovered part of a human skull, pottery and an antler implement. An archaeological excavation followed, leading to the discovery of large quantities of Bronze Age pottery, butchered animal bones and oyster shells. READ MORE

Paperback: £28.00 | eBook: £16.00

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