BA (Hons) Archaeology
Course Overview
This course provides a comprehensive introduction to archaeology, teaching you to reconstruct past societies by analyzing material remains from human, animal, and plant life to artefacts and art. You will investigate major developments in human history across the globe and gain hands-on experience in professional excavation and survey techniques. The program is further enriched by a wide array of optional modules, allowing you to tailor your studies to specific interests.
Key Program Highlights
- Analyze a diverse range of evidence, from skeletal remains to ancient art and artefacts
- Explore major developments in human history across continents, from Britain to China
- Gain practical, hands-on experience in archaeological excavation and field survey
- Customize your degree with optional modules on specific cultures, periods, and methods
- Develop the skills to interpret and reconstruct past societies from their material culture
Course Overview
This course provides a comprehensive introduction to archaeology, teaching you to reconstruct past societies by analyzing material remains from human, animal, and plant life to artefacts and art. You will investigate major developments in human history across the globe and gain hands-on experience in professional excavation and survey techniques. The program is further enriched by a wide array of optional modules, allowing you to tailor your studies to specific interests.
Key Program Highlights
- Analyze a diverse range of evidence, from skeletal remains to ancient art and artefacts
- Explore major developments in human history across continents, from Britain to China
- Gain practical, hands-on experience in archaeological excavation and field survey
- Customize your degree with optional modules on specific cultures, periods, and methods
- Develop the skills to interpret and reconstruct past societies from their material culture
Requirements
Modules
- Principles of Archaeology
- The Origins of Humanity
- Bronze Age Civilizations: Mesopotamia and the Mediterranean
- From Village to City: The Origins of Chinese Civilisation
- The Practice of Archaeology
- Empires and Citizens: The Classical Mediterranean and the Near East
- Issues in Evolutionary Anthropology
- Visual Culture
- Working with the Past
- Artefacts and Technology
- Rethinking Stonehenge (British and Irish Prehistory)
- Placement Year Preparation
- Plants and People in the Past: Method and Practice of Archaeobotany
- Nomads: An Introduction to the Archaeology of Eurasia
- Ancient Warfare
- Akkadian Language and Literature
- Conquest, Conflict and Culture: Sicily from Protohistory to the Hellenistic Period
- Indigenous Americas
- Human Osteoarchaeology
- Old Worlds and Work Futures: Placements in ACE
- Museums and Monuments
- Death and Mortuary Practices
- Sumerian Language and Literature
- The First Civilisation: Mesopotamia and the Sumerians
- The Roman Experience: History, Archaeology, and Heritage
- Archaeology and Heritage in Contemporary Society: Ethical and Political Issues
- Dissertation
- Archaeomaterials: Analytical Methods and Practical Analysis
- Evolution of the Human Mind
- Palaeolithic Art in Europe
- The Archaeology of the Upper Palaeolithic in Europe
- Akkadian Language and Literature
- The Origins of Agriculture and Sedentism in the Near East
- Settlement Archaeology in Egypt
- International Relations in the Ancient World
- Archaic Greek Colonisation and British Colonial Thought
- Past, Present and Future: Global Questions and Insights from the Past
- Human Origins: Archaeology of the Early and Middle Pleistocene
- Sumerian Language and Literature
- The First Civilisation: Mesopotamia and the Sumerians
- Biblical Archaeology
- The Celts (Iron Age Europe and the Mediterranean)
- Social Life in Egypt
