Course Content
Year 1
- Prehistory to the Present
- Artefacts and Materials
- Archaeological Theory
- Introduction to Archaeological Science
- Field Archaeology
Year 2
- Themes in Prehistory
- Themes in Historical Archaeology
Dissertation
- Communicating Archaeology
- Researching Archaeology
- Designing Research
Year 3
Dissertation
- Dissertation and Assessed Lecture
Recent titles have included:
- Autism and Upper Palaeolithic Art
- Grave goods in the European Mesolithic and Neolithic
- The Material Culture of Viking Food
- The Archaeology of a Civil War Battlefield
Year 2
Option modules
World Archaeology I
- Conflict
- World Mummification
- Alpine Landscape Archaeology
- The Invention of World Heritage
- The Late Prehistory of Egypt and the Fertile Crescent
Practical Skills
- Artefact Analysis
- Buildings History
- Human Bones
- Field Archaeology Survey
- Archaeology and Heritage
- Biomolecular Archaeology
Year 3
World Archaeology II
- Conflict
- World Mummification
- Alpine Landscape Archaeology
- The Invention of World Heritage
- The Late Prehistory of Egypt and the Fertile Crescent
Special Topic
- Human Evolution
- Historic Houses
- Ancient DNA
- Viking Age Scandinavia
- Death and Burial in Later Prehistory
- Mediterranean Civilizations
Assessed Seminars
- Archaeology of British Christianity
- Building Early Modernity
- Debates in Archaeological Science
- Mesolithic Europe
- Neanderthals
- Environmental Archaeology
- Palaeodiet
- Modern Landscape
- Sustainable Heritage
