Level 1
- AY 1001 - INTRODUCTION TO ARCHAEOLOGY 1
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- Credit Points
- 20
- Course Coordinator
- Dr K Milek
Pre-requisites
None
Co-requisites
None
Overview
Covering the first essentials of archaeological enquiry, the course includes three parallel blocks that will address:
The study of the past. Global history of archaeological enquiry in the context of developing ideas of artistic perspective, scientific reasoning and historical analysis. How the past has been conceptualised and how early antiquarian, poetic interest eventually became a discipline for scholarly research.
Material culture. Basic technologies, the principles of artefactual study, chronology, typology and other tools of an archaeological practice that works to understand the world of past people through the objects they have left behind.
Being human. Hominid evolution, the first humans and their ecology, early subsistence and social life, the origins of cognition and the human mind, development of abstract reasoning, symbolism, early evidence for 'art' and 'religion'.Structure
3 one hour lectures very week and 1 two hour tutorial in weeks 14-22.
Assessment
1 two hour written examination (67%) and in-course assessment (33%).
Resit: 1 two hour written examination (67%) plus original in-course assessment carried forward (33%). - AY 1501 - INTRODUCTION TO ARCHAEOLOGY 2
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- Credit Points
- 20
- Course Coordinator
- Dr P Jordan
Pre-requisites
None
Co-requisites
None
Overview
Covering the deeper foundations of archaeological enquiry, the course includes three parallel blocks that will address:
Introduction to archaeological methods and techniques. First principles of archaeological study, including field survey, excavation, analysis and publication.
Transformation. The global development of human society, including the transition to agriculture, the emergence of social complexity and urban life, the rise of polities and social elites.
Introduction to the archaeology of the British Isles. A chronological overview of human habitation and settlement in what is now Britain and Ireland, from the Paleolithic (early Stone Age) to the beginning of the Medieval period.Structure
3 one hour lectures every week and 1 two hour tutorial in weeks 32-37 and 41-43.
Assessment
1 two hour written examination (67%) and in-course assessment (33%).
Resit: 1 two hour written examination (67%) plus original in-course assessment carried forward (33%).