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
Art History
Monumental architecture and elaborately crafted works of visual art are amongst the most compelling and important evidence available to students of past societies. Their interpretation draws upon a wide range of perspectives within archaeology and related disciplines, from style analysis and iconography in art history, through archaeologies of contextual meaning, sociologies and anthropologies of art, to scientific technical studies of, for example, pigments and glazes. With an exceptional range of period and regional expertise, and the proximity of the collections of the British Museum, the Institute of Archaeology offers students unparalleled opportunities for the study of the art of ancient civilisations.
Research
Projects
- Art History and Social Theory
- Buddhist monasteries and monasticism in ancient India
- Chinese Art Market and Auctions
- Image of the Black in Western Art
- Text, Image and Cultural Memory
Centres
People
- Didier Bouakaze-Khan
- Elizabeth Graham
- David Kertai
- Lukas Nickel
- José Oliver
- Julia Shaw
- Jeremy Tanner
- Marc Vander Linden
- David Wengrow
Degrees
- MA in Archaeology
- MA in the Archaeology of the Middle East
- MA in Artefact Studies
- MA in Comparative Art and Archaeology
- MA in Cultural Heritage Studies
- MA in Mediterranean Archaeology
- MA in Public Archaeology
- MSc in Environmental Archaeology
Courses
undergraduate
- Greek Art and Architecture
- Roman Art and Architecture
- Archaeology of Early South Asia
- Archaeology and Art of Early Historic Asia
- Art and Archaeology of Ancient China
- Painting and Society in Archaic and Classical Greece
- From Alexandria to Pompeii: representing humans and the world of nature in Hellenistic and Roman painting
graduate
- Rethinking 'Classical' Art: sociological and anthropological approaches
- Art: interpretation and explanation
- Maya Art, Architecture and Archaeology
- Aztec Archaeology: codices and ethnohistory
- The Mediterranean world in the Iron Age
- Ancient Italy in the Mediterranean
- Rock Art Studies: Theories, Methods and Management
- World Rock Art: from Palaeolithic to Present
- Society and Culture in Ancient Egypt
- Dendrochronology and tree-ring studies
- Near Eastern Material Cultures I: Neolithic and Early Bronze Age
- Near Eastern Material Cultures II: Middle Bronze Age through the Iron Age
- Pattern and Process in the Archaeology of the Middle East
- Cities, States and Religions in Ancient India
- Archaeology of Buddhism
- Mediterranean Dynamics
- Mediterranean Prehistory
