MSc Material Culture and Experimental Archaeology
Course Overview
This course provides a comprehensive exploration of material culture, blending theoretical frameworks with hands-on practical analysis to understand the profound relationship between people and objects throughout history. You will gain invaluable, career-ready skills by working directly with artefacts and designing your own research projects, preparing you for a future in heritage, academia, or commercial archaeology.
Key Program Highlights
- Master functional analysis techniques for a broad range of artefacts, including microscopic wear and residue studies.
- Design and execute a unique experimental archaeology project from conception to conclusion.
- Gain direct hands-on experience with real objects from museum collections and recent excavations.
- Develop digital storytelling skills by creating a short documentary film for the heritage sector.
- Learn from world-leading academics and develop highly transferable skills for diverse career paths.
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Course Overview
This course provides a comprehensive exploration of material culture, blending theoretical frameworks with hands-on practical analysis to understand the profound relationship between people and objects throughout history. You will gain invaluable, career-ready skills by working directly with artefacts and designing your own research projects, preparing you for a future in heritage, academia, or commercial archaeology.
Key Program Highlights
- Master functional analysis techniques for a broad range of artefacts, including microscopic wear and residue studies.
- Design and execute a unique experimental archaeology project from conception to conclusion.
- Gain direct hands-on experience with real objects from museum collections and recent excavations.
- Develop digital storytelling skills by creating a short documentary film for the heritage sector.
- Learn from world-leading academics and develop highly transferable skills for diverse career paths.
Requirements
The requirements may vary based on your selected study options.
Modules
- Experimental Archaeology
- Thinking through Material Culture
- Artefacts and Materials Analysis
- Digital Creativity
- Understanding & Interpreting Historic Buildings
- Virtual Reality and 3D Modelling
- Archaeologies of Colonialism in the British Atlantic World
- Ancient Biomolecules
- Animal Bones for Archaeologists
- Becoming Human
- Building Conservation Projects
- Buildings Recording
- Contemporary Issues in Museums
- Critical Approaches to Archaeological Practice
- Data Science for Archaeology
- Death, Burial and Commemoration in the Roman World
- Debates in Funerary Archaeology
- Digital Approaches to Archaeology
- 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
- Plants in Archaeology
- Presenting Historic Houses
- Project Management
- Researching & Analysing Historic Buildings
- Roman Europe
- Roman Archaeology: Ancient pasts, current issues
- Skeletal Evidence for Health in the Past
- Sustainability I: definitions of sustainability & methods of assessment
- Sustainability II: understanding sustainability as change through time
- Sustainable Buildings
- Sustainable Conservation Challenges
- The Archaeology of the Human Skeleton
- The Archaeology of Roman Religion
- The Ancient Celts: Archaeology and Identity in Iron Age Europe
- The Viking Age: People, Places, Things
- Zooarchaeology in Context
- Artefacts and Materials Analysis
- Digital Creativity
- Understanding & Interpreting Historic Buildings
- Virtual Reality and 3D Modelling
- Archaeologies of Colonialism in the British Atlantic World
- Ancient Biomolecules
- Animal Bones for Archaeologists
- Becoming Human
- Building Conservation Projects
- Buildings Recording
- Contemporary Issues in Museums
- Critical Approaches to Archaeological Practice
- Data Science for Archaeology
- Death, Burial and Commemoration in the Roman World
- Debates in Funerary Archaeology
- Digital Approaches to Archaeology
- 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
- Plants in Archaeology
- Presenting Historic Houses
- Project Management
- Researching & Analysing Historic Buildings
- Roman Europe
- Roman Archaeology: Ancient pasts, current issues
- Skeletal Evidence for Health in the Past
- Sustainability I: definitions of sustainability & methods of assessment
- Sustainability II: understanding sustainability as change through time
- Sustainable Buildings
- Sustainable Conservation Challenges
- The Archaeology of the Human Skeleton
- The Archaeology of Roman Religion
- The Ancient Celts: Archaeology and Identity in Iron Age Europe
- The Viking Age: People, Places, Things
- Zooarchaeology in Context
- dissertation
- dissertation
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