Aims:
- give you a thorough knowledge of the workings of the field archaeology, in the process bridging the gap
between the profession and the academic community
- provide you with the opportunity to gain a general acquaintance with the major concepts and methodologies
employed within modern fieldwork, and to understand their impact on data gathering and analysis and on the
interpretation of evidence
- help you to assimilate the detailed vocational skills and general understanding which will ensure a solid
foundation for developing your career in archaeological fieldwork, whether in the UK or beyond
Learning Outcomes:
Upon completion of the course, students should have:
- developed an awareness of the organisational and legislative context within which fieldwork operates in the
UK
- gained a detailed knowledge of the varied techniques of site evaluation used today
- become aware of the practicalities, and problems, of implementing archaeological projects and understood the
implications of this for strategy and project design
- have a grasp of the processes of analysing stratigraphic, spatial, artefactual and palaeoecological
material, the objectives of how this work, and how it is managed
- surveyed the range of mechanisms for synthesising, archiving and disseminating the evidence generated by
fieldwork
- by the use of placements and field visits, developed your understanding of how the profession operates in
"the real world"
- through writing essays and producing projects, developed your ability to gather and organise information and
arguments in a critical and independent manner
- undertaken a piece of independent research on a topic within field archaeology
- developed your presentational skills through the delivery of seminar papers on a range of diverse topics
Information supplied by SPR; last updated June 07
