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Thu 10 Oct 2009Our forebears knew their trees from their woods
The value of trees in the daily lives of Ireland’s earliest inhabitants is being revealed along the N6, writes CLAIRE O’CONNELL
ARCHAEOLOGICAL digs turn up exciting artefacts – jewellery, utensils and buildings that our ancestors left behind as clues to how they lived and died thousands of years ago. But as well as the man-made items, there’s another vast bank of information to be plundered: the record that nature left behind.
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