BA Archaeology
Entry requirements
A level: BBB IB: Pass, wither overall score of 30 points with 15 points at Higher Level
About this course
Bachelor of Arts in Archaeology, an archaeology degree examining the material remains of human societies and the development of civilisations. Core topics include Research Methods and Fieldwork. Students participate in practical excavation or survey work, and complete a final-year dissertation as the culmination of their studies. The first year introduces foundational themes through compulsory modules such as Archaeological Methods for Fieldwork and Analysis, Human Origins, and Introduction to Global Prehistory: Deconstructing the Emergence of Civilisation, while offering optional modules like Debates and Issues in Archaeological Science. The second year expands upon these concepts with compulsory study including Researching Archaeology and Working With Things: the analysis of material culture, alongside optional choices such as Maritime Archaeology and Bones, Bodies and Burials: osteology and comparative anatomy. The final year centres on the Archaeology Dissertation and allows specialisation through optional modules like GIS for Archaeology, Molecular Archaeology, and Seeing Beneath the Soil: geophysical survey for archaeology.
Modules
- Archaeological Methods for Fieldwork and Analysis
- Fieldwork and Practice
- Human Origins
- Introduction to Global Prehistory: Deconstructing the Emergence of Civilisation
- Introduction to Historical Archaeology
- The development of Archaeological and Anthropological Thought
- Thinking Through Things: The Archaeology And Anthropology Of Material Worlds
- Debates and Issues in Archaeological Science
- Introduction to Ethnography: Food and Culture
- Landscapes and Seascapes of Britain’s Past
- Contemporary Issues and Debates in Archaeology
- Fieldwork and Practice
- Humanities Study Abroad Preparation Module
- Researching Archaeology
- Working With Things: the analysis of material culture
- Year Abroad Report Module for Humanities Students
- Year in Employment
- An Anthropology of Everything
- Bones, Bodies and Burials: osteology and comparative anatomy
- Experimental Archaeology: the social prehistory of technology
- Human Dispersal and Evolution
- Introduction to European Prehistory
- Introduction to Scientific Diving
- Learning about Culture: Introduction to Ethnography
- Maritime Archaeology
- The Power of Rome: Europe’s first empire
- Archaeology Dissertation
- Anthropological Perspectives on Migration and Mobilities
- Archaeology of Seafaring
- Ecology of Human Evolution: Biological, social and cultural approaches to hominin adaptations.
- GIS for Archaeology
- Later Anglo-Saxon England
- Living with the Romans: Urbanism in the Roman Empire
- Molecular Archaeology
- More than Pyramids & Pharaohs? Ancient Egypt in Context
- Photogrammetry and Data Visualisation in Archaeology
- Presenting the Past: Museums and Heritage
- Seeing Beneath the Soil: geophysical survey for archaeology
- Stonehenge to Skara Brae: the Neolithic of Britain
- The Archaeology and Anthropology of Adornment