MA Material Culture and Experimental Archaeology
Course Overview
This Master's degree provides a hands-on exploration of archaeological artefacts and materials, teaching you how past societies made, used, and valued objects. You will develop key analytical skills through a blend of theoretical study and practical, experimental reconstruction of ancient technologies. The course prepares you for a career in archaeology, museum curation, or conservation by offering direct experience with cutting-edge laboratories and industry partners.
Key Program Highlights
- Gain hands-on experience in experimental archaeology to reconstruct ancient crafts and technologies
- Master key analytical skills for studying material culture, from theoretical approaches to object analysis
- Access state-of-the-art facilities including BioArCh laboratories and the PalaeoHub
- Choose from specialized modules across prehistory, historical periods, and digital or biomolecular methods
- Collaborate on projects with industry partners like the York Archaeological Trust and Yorkshire Museums
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Course Overview
This Master's degree provides a hands-on exploration of archaeological artefacts and materials, teaching you how past societies made, used, and valued objects. You will develop key analytical skills through a blend of theoretical study and practical, experimental reconstruction of ancient technologies. The course prepares you for a career in archaeology, museum curation, or conservation by offering direct experience with cutting-edge laboratories and industry partners.
Key Program Highlights
- Gain hands-on experience in experimental archaeology to reconstruct ancient crafts and technologies
- Master key analytical skills for studying material culture, from theoretical approaches to object analysis
- Access state-of-the-art facilities including BioArCh laboratories and the PalaeoHub
- Choose from specialized modules across prehistory, historical periods, and digital or biomolecular methods
- Collaborate on projects with industry partners like the York Archaeological Trust and Yorkshire Museums
Requirements
The requirements may vary based on your selected study options.
Modules
- Experimental Archaeology
- Thinking through Material Culture
- Artefacts and Materials Analysis
- Digital Creativity
- Virtual Reality and 3D Modelling
- Ancient Biomolecules
- Animal Bones for Archaeologists
- Archaeologies of Colonialism in the British Atlantic World
- Becoming Human
- Building Conservation Projects
- Buildings Recording
- Data Science for Archaeology
- Death, Burial and Commemoration in the Roman World
- Debates in Funerary Archaeology
- Digital Approaches to Archaeology
- Contemporary Issues in Museums
- Critical Approaches to Archaeological Practice
- GIS and spatial analysis
- Heritage Principles and Concepts
- Histories of Conservation
- Landscape Survey and Geophysics
- Life and Death in Iron Age Britain and Ireland
- Making the Nation
- Medieval Settlement and Communities
- Mesolithic Life and Death
- Museums, Audiences & Interpretation
- Prehistoric Art: Origins and Transitions
- Presenting Historic Houses
- Project Management
- Researching & Analysing Historic Buildings
- Roman Archaeology: Ancient pasts, current issues
- Roman Europe
- Skeletal Evidence for Health in the Past
- Sustainable Buildings
- Sustainability I: definitions of sustainability & methods of assessment
- Sustainability II: understanding sustainability as change through time
- Sustainable Conservation Challenges
- The Ancient Celts: Archaeology and Identity in Iron Age Europe
- The Viking Age: People, Places, Things
- The Archaeology of the Human Skeleton
- The Archaeology of Roman Religion
- Understanding & Interpreting Historic Buildings
- Zooarchaeology in Context
- Artefacts and Materials Analysis
- Digital Creativity
- Virtual Reality and 3D Modelling
- Ancient Biomolecules
- Animal Bones for Archaeologists
- Archaeologies of Colonialism in the British Atlantic World
- Becoming Human
- Building Conservation Projects
- Buildings Recording
- Data Science for Archaeology
- Death, Burial and Commemoration in the Roman World
- Debates in Funerary Archaeology
- Digital Approaches to Archaeology
- Contemporary Issues in Museums
- Critical Approaches to Archaeological Practice
- GIS and spatial analysis
- Heritage Principles and Concepts
- Histories of Conservation
- Landscape Survey and Geophysics
- Life and Death in Iron Age Britain and Ireland
- Making the Nation
- Medieval Settlement and Communities
- Mesolithic Life and Death
- Museums, Audiences & Interpretation
- Prehistoric Art: Origins and Transitions
- Presenting Historic Houses
- Project Management
- Researching & Analysing Historic Buildings
- Roman Archaeology: Ancient pasts, current issues
- Roman Europe
- Skeletal Evidence for Health in the Past
- Sustainable Buildings
- Sustainability I: definitions of sustainability & methods of assessment
- Sustainability II: understanding sustainability as change through time
- Sustainable Conservation Challenges
- The Ancient Celts: Archaeology and Identity in Iron Age Europe
- The Viking Age: People, Places, Things
- The Archaeology of the Human Skeleton
- The Archaeology of Roman Religion
- Understanding & Interpreting Historic Buildings
- Zooarchaeology in Context
- dissertation
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