Course director: Dr Kevin Walsh
The MA in Landscape Archaeology is new programme designed for students with an interest in how people have engaged with landscapes and environment during the prehistoric and protohistoric periods. The course is also designed to explore the links between landscape theory and practice, and draws on the expertise and expereince of staff who have developed a wide range of landscape archaeological projects in the UK and abroad:
- Mark Edmonds: interests lay in Prehistory, in particular on the study of landscape and memory and on the social dimensions of technology. He is particularly interested in the Neolithic and Bronze Age of Britain and North-Western Europe.
- Jonathan Finch: specialises in landscape studies and church archaeology. He has published articles on medieval landscapes, as well as commemoration and the construction of social identities.
- Nicky Milner: specialises in palaeodiet and consumption practices, shell midden studies and death and burial. She has excavated a Mesolithic structure at Howick, shell middens in Europe, and is currently excavating at Star Carr and the Vale of Pickering.
- Kevin Walsh: works in the Mediterranean on multiperiod landscape projects in the French Alps and Greece. His particular interest is the history of human/environment interaction throughout the Holocene.
This MA is focussed on core modules that consider how archaeologists, geographers, historians and anthropologists, amongst others, have studied landscapes. A wide range of themes, methods, and supporting case studies are employed in the teaching. The core modules are taught in small groups where friendly, informal discussions are encouraged. Each module also includes a field trip where specific themes and skills are addressed in landscapes around Yorkshire.
Last updated by KJW; June 2007