Ideal Homes

Rena Maguire is an IRC-Funded Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in University College Dublin, Ireland. She graduated from Queen's University Belfast, where she is a Visiting Fellow, and specialises in Iron Age material culture, particularly metalwork, but especially ancient equitation, lorinery and weaponry. She is active in EXARC as practitioner and editor of the journal.

• Introducing Ideal Homes - Rena MaguireChapter 1. At Home in the Irish Bronze Age - Charles MountChapter 2. Pottery, Status, Pollution and People: Some Thoughts on How Cultural Concepts and Processes May Have Resulted in the Decline and Disappearance of Domestic Potting in Late Prehistoric and Early Historic Ireland - Cormac McSparronChapter 3. 'There is no Doubt but Our Pots Might be Made as Good as the English, if More Encouragement Were Given Them': Exploring Ceramics as Indicators of Identity, Home Comforts and the Movement of Technology in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Ulster - Naomi CarverChapter 4. Burnt Mounds: An Archaeology of Everyday Life - JJ Ó Néill Chapter 5. Building and Dwelling in the City Ireta Kieri of Tzintzuntzan - José Luis PunzoChapter 6. Forging Rural Heritage: Observations from Recent Archaeological Excavations at Clenor South and Annakisha South, County Cork, Ireland - Rena Maguire, Kate Taylor, Jordana MaguireChapter 7. Galion and Aparine: A Forgotten Vegetarian Cheese-Maker - Lutz ZwiebelNotes on Contributors