'The First Settlers of County Waterford’ seminar is taking place tonight in The Granville Hotel at 7pm.
The event, hosted by the Portalis project, will include a look at archaeology and climate change and host a discussion about how Irish and Welsh coastal communities can best preserve their natural and cultural heritage.
The aim is to create a new virtual reality experience for the visitors of two museums in Waterford and Wales.
It is part of a series of cross-border network events featuring International experts and representatives from Ireland and Wales.
The seminar will take you back to Passage East to see Arthurstown in 10,000 BP when the glaciers began to melt causing sea levels to rise and submerge prehistoric houses, ancient cooking places, hunting areas and even forests.
It will then explain how the area has changed over the last 100 years as global warming and changes in sea levels has eroded the Irish coast even more.
"We will discuss how archaeological and environmental research helps us prepare for the future of the Waterford Estuary and the Irish coastline as climate change and rising sea levels continue to erode strands and cliffs,” Donal Nolan, Strategic Projects Officer at Waterford Chamber of Commerce, said.
The event will also offer an overview of the Portalis project, which maps the story of the first journey between Ireland and Wales, dating back to the Mesolithic period, about 10,000 years ago
Portalis is a design led transdisciplinary pilot project led by the South East Technological University. It is supported by the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, Ceredigion County Council and Waterford Chamber of Commerce.
See the Waterford Chamber website to register for the event.
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