Sections
Archaeological Sciences | Heritage Studies | World Archaeology
Regions
Africa | Americas | Britain | Central Asia | China | Egypt | Europe | Greek | India | Islamic | London | Mediterranean | Middle East | Pacific | Roman | Turkey
Time Periods
Palaeolithic | Neolithic | Bronze Age | Iron Age | Classical | Medieval | Modern
Techniques, subjects and themes
Agriculture | Archaeobotany | Archaeological Survey | Archaeological Theory | Art History | Artefact Analysis | Audio-visual media | Biological Anthropology | Buildings | Community Archaeology | Conflict Archaeology | Conservation | Cultural Heritage | Dendrochronology | Empires | Environment & Climate | Evolutionary Theory | Experimental | Field | Forensic | Geoarchaeology | GIS | History of Archaeology | Human Evolution | Hunting & Herding | Landscape | Lithic Analysis | Maritime | Materials Analysis | Mathematical Modelling | Museum Studies | Photography | Production & Exchange | Public Archaeology | Public Engagement | Ritual & Religion | Site Management | States & Urbanism | Statistical Analysis | Zooarchaeology
Africa
UCL is one of the world’s major centres of Africanist archaeological research, with staff members working on field projects in various centres, and others undertaking specialist work on African metallurgy, archaeobotany and faunal studies. African archaeology has enjoyed a renaissance at the Institute since 1994 with over 15 PhDs and numerous MAs in the field since that date. Staff research ranges from the Diaspora and historical archaeology, back through early social complexity, agricultural origins and the stone age. Current Institute fieldwork includes projects in Mali, Uganda, Ethiopia, Sierra Leone and at disapora sites in the United States.
Research
Projects
- Lower Tilemsi Valley Project (Mali)
- Merowe Dam Archaeological Project (Sudan)
- ORACEAF: The Origins of the Acheulean in East Africa
- Palaeoanthropological research in the Ethiopian Rift Valley
- Palimpsest Memoryscapes: Materializing and Mediating the Past in Sierra Leone
- Projet Segou (Mali)
- Reanimating Cultural Heritage: Digital Repatriation, Knowledge Network and Civil Society Strengthening in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone
- SEALINKS
Networks
- African Heritage and Archaeology (external network)
- Hunters and Herders - Global Perspectives (IoA network)
- Making a Good Impression: 5000 Years of pottery from the Sahara Sahel borderlands (external network)
- Percussive Technology in Human Evolution: A Comparative Approach (Leverhulme Trust International Network)
Centres
People
- Paul Basu
- Didier Bouakaze-Khan
- Richard Bussmann
- Dorian Fuller
- Kevin MacDonald
- Katie Manning
- Michael Pante
- Mike Parker Pearson
- Andrew Reid
- Ignacio de la Torre
- David Wengrow
Degrees
- BA in Egyptian Archaeology
- MA in Archaeology
- MA in Archaeology of the Mediterranean and the Middle East
- MA in Egyptian Archaeology
- MA in Mediterranean Archaeology
- MA in Urban Archaeology
- MSc in Environmental Archaeology
- MSc in Palaeoanthropology and Palaeolithic Archaeology
Courses
undergraduate
- Early Hominin Societies in Africa
- Studies in African field archaeology
- History, Ethnography and Archaeology of African States
- Issues in the Archaeology of Nubia
- Archaeology of the African Diaspora
graduate
- Archaeologies of African political traditions
- Rock Art Studies: Theories, Methods and Management
- World Rock Art: from Palaeolithic to Present
- Climate Change and Human Responses in Holocene Africa
- Mediterranean Dynamics
- Mediterranean Prehistory
