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MA Field Archaeology

Programme information:

• Introduction
• Course aims and objectives
• Programme specification
• Course placements

Module choices

Signature modules are compulsory. Students must choose from the selection of supplementary modules and skills modules listed here, and these must be approved by the Programme Director.

Recommended as particularly appropriate modules for students registered for the MA Field Archaeology

Autumn Term

• Signature module (20 credits)
  • The context and practice of gathering field archaeology data
  
  
• Supplementary module (20 credits)
  Choose one from the following list of modules:
  • Digital publication and web technologies
  • Bones: matters of life and death
  • Bioarchaeology, ecofacts and figures
  • Evolving minds and societies
  • Cultural Heritage Management 1: concepts, principles and practice
  • Analysing Historic Buildings
  • Philosophical approaches to conservation
  • Concepts of landscapes
  • Issues in Historical Archaeology 1
  • The Vikings
  • Mesolithic theory and interpretation
  • Coastal Lanscapes
  
  
• Research skills and training modules (5 credits) weeks 2-5
  Choose one from the following list of modules:
  • Narrating our pasts
  • Topographical Survey
  • Working on the web
  • Zooarchaeology: anatomy and identification
  • Lime and Stone
  
  
• Research skills and training modules (5 credits) weeks 6-9
  Choose one from the following list of modules:
  • Artefacts
  • Buildings Survey
  • Database Design and implementation
  • Geophysical Survey
  • Introduction to biomolecules, invertebrates and plants
  • Legislation and Policy

Spring Term

• Signature module (20 credits)
  • The analysis, interpretation and dissemination of field archaeology data
  
  
• Supplementary module (20 credits)
  Choose one from the following list of modules:
  • Analysis and visualisation
  • Bones: from data to interpretation
  • Bioarchaeology data analysis: not just digging up plants and animals
  • Coastal Settlement
  • Cultural Heritage Management 2: Museums, audiences and interpretation
  • Interpreting Historic Buildings
  • Conservation solutions
  • Themes in the Historic Landscape
  • Issues in Historical Archaeology 2
  • Medieval Settlement and communities
  • Themes in the Prehistoric Landscape
  • Mesolithic lifeways
  • Hunting and gathering societies

Research skills and training modules (5 credits) weeks 2-5
Choose one from the following list of modules:

• Geoarchaeology
• GIS
• Debates in Museum Theory & Practice
• Zooarchaeology: exploring the assemblage
• Vernacular Buildings

Research skills and training modules (5 credits) weeks 6-9
Choose one from the following list of modules:

• Human Bone Practicals
• Virtual Reality Modelling
• International Issues in Cultural Heritage Conservation
• Perspectives in Landscape Research
• Artefacts from Excavation

Summer Term

• Assessed lecture
• Dissertation

N.B. Whilst we endeavour to give everyone their first choice on modules, please note that this cannot always be guaranteed. Please be aware that certain skills modules are required by particular programmes and so some may be more over-subscribed than others.

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Information last updated by SPR July 2009