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UCAS CODE: V400

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  • Qualification

    Master of Arts (with Honours) - MA (Hons)

  • Location

    Central area campus

  • Study mode

    Full time

  • Start date

    SEP-24

  • Duration

    4 Years

Course summary

Archaeology is the study of the human past from our origins several million years ago to recent times. While historians are primarily concerned with oral, written and transcribed accounts of the past, archaeologists use material remains to study the lives, societies and cultures of past peoples.


What the programme covers

This programme: covers current thinking on some of the best known and most spectacular archaeological sites considers the most pressing questions in archaeological research provides an introduction to the tools and skills archaeologists use to reconstruct the past Our teaching is multidisciplinary, reflecting the broad range of disciplines that underpin archaeological method and theory. You can study a broad range of time periods and different approaches to reconstructing the past. These include: human evolution later hunter-gatherers the first farmers the later prehistoric societies of the Iron Age Our geographical scope reaches from the north of Scotland over central and southern Europe, the western and eastern Mediterranean to Egypt and the Near East. We also specialise in osteology, the study of the skeletal remains of humans and animals. In Years 3 and 4 you can choose to specialise in a specific time period, geographic area or culture.


Practical skills

We emphasise the importance of training in practical archaeological skills. You will have an opportunity to gain hands-on experience of artefact identification and analysis in practical sessions using artefacts from our own Vere Gordon Childe collection.


Fieldwork

At the end of Year 1, you will complete 3 weeks of archaeological fieldwork. In later years of study you will also have the option to complete: further fieldwork projects in heritage management and public engagement lab-based analysis of archaeological remains

Application deadline

31 January

Tuition fees

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£ 26,500per year

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A level : AAB

Required subjects: A Levels: no specific A Level subjects required. GCSEs: English at C or 4.

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University information

The University of Edinburgh

  • University League Table

    12th

  • Campus address

    University of Edinburgh, Student Recruitment and Admissions, 33 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City Of, EH8 9JS, Scotland

Subject rankings

  • Subject ranking

    9th out of 27 1

  • Entry standards

    / Max 195
    181 89%

    3rd

  • Graduate prospects

    / Max 100
    65.0 65%

    16th

    1
  • Student satisfaction

    / Max 5
    3.95 79%

    14th

    4

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