UCL Institute of Archaeology

Classical

Classical archaeology conventionally entails the study of the material culture of the Greek and Roman world from c. 8th century BC to the 4th century AD, a study area where archaeological material can be explored in combination with the written documents that are left from that world. At the Institute of Archaeology, however, Classical Archaeology embraces a wider study area that comprises the whole Mediterranean basin of the 1st millennium BC, and includes Egypt as well as other regions such as Etruria and the Iberian peninsula, which do not strictly belong to the Graeco-Roman world but very much interacted with that world.

Research

Projects

• Antikythera Survey Project
• Art History and Social Theory
• Image of the Black in Western Art
• Knossos Urban Landscape Project
• Kythera Island Project
• Textile Fibre in Italy before the Roman Empire (FIBRE)

Networks

• TOPOI: The Formation and Transformation of Space and Knowledge in Ancient Civilisations (external network)

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People

• Andrew Bevan
• Cyprian Broodbank
• Andrew Gardner
• Margarita Gleba
• David Jeffreys
• Kris Lockyear
• John Merkel
• Dominic Perring
• Corinna Riva
• Jeremy Tanner
• Todd Whitelaw

Degrees

• BA in Archaeology and Anthropology
• BA or BSc in Archaeology
• BA in Classical Archaeology and Classical Civilisation
• BA in Egyptian Archaeology
• MA in Comparative Art and Archaeology
• MA in Mediterranean Archaeology
• MA in Urban Archaeology

Courses

undergraduate

• Introduction to Roman Archaeology
• World Archaeology: the deep history of human societies (formerly Past Societies)
• World Archaeology: evolutionary origins to the earliest states
• World Archaeology: from early states to globalization
• Introduction to Greek Archaeology
• World Archaeology: an outline of the deep history of human societies (for BA Arch & Anth students only)
• Roman Coinage
• History and Archaeology of Roman Britain
  
• Greek art and architecture
• Roman art and architecture
• Archaeology of Ancient Egypt
• The Prehistoric Mediterranean
• Theory and Method for the Archaeology of the Ancient World
• Archaeology of the Later Roman Empire
• The Emergence of Bronze Age Aegean States
• Late Bronze Age Aegean in the Mediterranean World
• Painting and Society in Archaic and Classical Greece
• From Alexandria to Pompeii: representing humans and the world of nature in Hellenistic and Roman painting
• The Archaeology of Etruscan Italy

graduate

• Rethinking 'Classical' Art: sociological and anthropological approaches
• The Aegean from first farmers to Minoan states
• The Late Bronze Age Aegean
• The Mediterranean World in the Iron Age
• Ancient Italy in the Mediterranean
• Funerary Archaeology
• Archaeologies of Asia
• Mediterranean Dynamics
• Mediterranean Prehistory

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