BSc Archaeological Science F420

• Year 1
• Year 2
• Year 3

Year 1 Core modules include:

• Bones, Bodies and Burials: the archaeology of death
• Practising Archaeology: methods and approaches

Optional modules include:

• Museum History, Policy and Ethics
• Plant Diversity, Structure and Utilisation
• Biogeography and Ecology
• Earth Materials
• Earth Structure and Processes
• Ecology: species and their interactions
• Exploiters and Exploited
• From Rome to the Reformation: an introduction to historic archaeology
• Museum Communication and Interpretation
• Primates to Pyramids: an introduction to world prehistory

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

For more information about this course, visit the Department of Archaeology's website.

Year 2 Core modules include:

• Archaeological Science
• Archaeological Thought
• Careers for Archaeologists
• Field School

Optional modules include:

• Celts and Romans: Northern Europe and Britain
• Crime Scene Analysis
• Curatorship and Collections Management
• Human Activity and Environmental Change
• Introduction to Zooarchaeology
• Later Medieval Europe
• Later Prehistoric Europe
• Museum Learning and Engagement
• Peoples and Societies of the Ancient Near East
• Post Roman and Early Medieval Europe
• Quaternary Global Climate Change
• Rome's Mediterranean Empire
• Techniques in Artefact Interpretation
• Techniques of Skeletal Interpretation
• The Mesolithic of North-West Europe
• The Middle Palaeolithic of Europe and SW Asia

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

For more information about this course, visit the Department of Archaeology's website.

Year 3 Core modules include:

• Dissertation

Optional modules include:

• Hominins, Hearths and Handaxes: Studies in the Lower Palaeolithic of North-Western Europe
• People, Plants and Environmental Change
• The Archaeology of Money: Coins, Power and Society
• Archaeology of the City of Rome
• Archaeology of the Dark Ages
• Coastal and Maritime Archaeology
• Emergence of Civilisation in Mesopotamia
• Expansion or Contraction in the Twelfth Century?
• Holocene Climate Change and Human Society
• Imperial Encounters in the Roman World
• Microarchaeology
• Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Britain
• Palaeopathology
• Roman Material Culture Studies
• Science and the Dead: Taphonomy and Molecular Analysis of Human Remains
• The Archaeology of Crusading
• The Archaeology of Early Iran
• The Archaeology of Food and Nutrition
• The Artefacts of Medieval Daily Life

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

For more information about this course, visit the Department of Archaeology's website.