UCL Institute of Archaeology

Institute students recently participated in a week-long course on the archaeometallurgy of Cyprus organised by the Marie-Curie funded NARNIA Initial Training Network.

Institute Masters students taking the Interpreting Pottery course recently enjoyed a two-day field trip to Stoke-on-Trent led by Bill Sillar.  

Staff from the Institute of Archaeology and UCL Qatar recently visited Iraqi Kurdistan to develop new fieldwork projects, supported by an award from UCL Grand Challenges. 

The Institute's 75th anniversary celebrations continue with two days of activities in Gordon Square Gardens on 8 & 9 June. 

MA Public Archaeology students recently enjoyed a five-day educational trip to Scotland and northern England to investigate how archaeology is communicated to the public.

The second multidisciplinary conference on 'Popular Antiquities: Folklore and Archaeology' will be held at the Institute on 13 & 14 October 2012. The deadline for the call for papers is 31 May 2012.

The 75th anniversary exhibition 'Breaking Ground: 75 Years of Pioneering Archaeology' is now on display in the Institute's A.G. Leventis Gallery until February 2013.

A PhD studentship is jointly offered by the Institute and UCL Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering from October 2012 (Ref:1248776). 

Congratulations are given to Helen Clarke, Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Institute, who has been honoured for services to Swedish archaeology.

The Institute of Archaeology will host this year's Early Medieval Archaeology Student Symposium Conference which runs from 14-16 May 2012.