Description

This postgraduate course is designed to give graduates a systematic training in the application of modern scientific methods in archaeology. It provides the necessary practical, analytical and interpretative skills to apply a wide range of specialist approaches in archaeology.

This postgraduate course aims to prepare students not only for research in archaeological science, but also to further career prospects in all areas of mainstream archaeology.

Students of the postgraduate course normally follow one of three pathways.

Environmental Archaeology focuses on subsistence and health through studies of animal bones, plant remains and biomarkers in human and non-human hard tissue. It also introduces environmental issues which impact on human beings, including environmental change.

Landscape Archaeology focuses on understanding and interpreting landscapes in the past using scientific methods.

Biomolecular Archaeology allows students to specialise in the use of biomolecular methods to study both human remains and artefacts. The pathways are intended to guide students through appropriate modules; they are indicative rather than prescriptive and students may choose to take the optional modules offered in any combination, subject to timetabling.

Highlights

Special Features

* Individual modules are available to candidates wishing to enhance their specialist knowledge in a particular area.
* This course has attracted AHRC funding as a research preparation Masters.
* This course includes hands-on experience in the Division¿s laboratories, a substantial individual research dissertation and has a wide range of option choices.
* First destination figures indicate that about 85% of postgraduates in Archaeological Sciences achieve work or further studies in the discipline or cognate areas.

Subject Areas

• Archaeology

Cost in US$:

This Program is open to

Worldwide Participants.