Archaeology MA

The programme covers current thinking on some of the best known and most significant archaeological sites, considers the most pressing questions in archaeological research, provides an introduction to the tools and skills used to reconstruct the past, and offers insight into how past humans interacted with the environment and adapted to periods of climate change. Teaching is delivered through a multidisciplinary approach, reflecting the broad range of disciplines that underpin archaeological method and theory. A broad range of time periods and approaches to reconstructing the past can be studied, including human evolution, later hunter-gatherers, the first farmers, and the later prehistoric societies of the Iron Age. The geographical scope extends from the north of Scotland across central and southern Europe, the western and eastern Mediterranean, to Egypt and the Near East, with additional specialisation available in osteology, the study of the skeletal remains of humans and animals.