AS Level Archaeology

A Level

In Taunton

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Description

  • Type

    A Level

  • Location

    Taunton

In your first year you will study the evidence for ritual and religious practices from a variety of prehistoric sites including Stonehenge. You will also study archaeological methods and techniques used to find sites, excavate them and analyse the results, including dating methods.

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Government funding available

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Location

Start date

Taunton (Somerset)
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South Road, TA1 3DZ

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Course programme

Archaeology
Level: AS & A Level

Board: AQA

Method of assessment
Two exams in your first year and one exam and a coursework project in your second year.

Why choose this course?
Archaeology is for anyone with an interest in their past. It is a subject that covers a wide range of topics from science to the arts, and a vast time range. It is essentially a practical subject so there are many field trips and an opportunity to take part in a dig.

If you are interested in what discoveries such as graves, shipwrecks and bog bodies can tell you about human existence through the ages; and if you would like to know more about famous sites such as Stonehenge and finds like the Terracotta Army in China, then you will enjoy this course. You will look at how archaeologists find and interpret archaeological evidence to learn more about past cultures from the stone tool technology of early man in the East African Rift Valley to gender issues and evidence of status trade and warfare through time.

What will I study?
In your first year you will study the evidence for ritual and religious practices from a variety of prehistoric sites including Stonehenge. You will also study archaeological methods and techniques used to find sites, excavate them and analyse the results, including dating methods.

In your second year you will have the chance to research and conduct fieldwork on a local site of your choice, and study the social organisation, settlement, technology and economics of examples of past societies from around the world.

Huish Extra
All students will take part in many field trips and visits, including going inside the stone circle at Stonehenge. You will also have the chance to visit some sites abroad, either Ireland to see the megalithic tombs at Newgrange and Knowth or even China to climb the Great Wall and see the Terracotta Army. Opportunities to take part in local excavations mean that you may even appear on Time Team!

AS Level Archaeology

Price on request