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
Cultural Heritage
Cultural Heritage Studies is
concerned with the critical investigation of both intellectual and practical approaches to key issues in the field. The contested
nature of cultural heritage theory and the examination of the application of different
theoretical perspectives from which cultural heritage can be viewed constitute
the critical bedrock of research. Real life, real time examples of tangible and
intangible heritage – including sites and structures, movable cultural
property, song, dance and diverse cultural performances and practices - that
have acquired cultural heritage value in the global context, are used as the
research foci for debates on key theoretical and practical issues. Institute staff have established the Conversations on conservation of cultural heritage blog to share and discuss news, projects, approaches and philosophies relating to the conservation of cultural heritage.
Research
Projects
- Ancient Merv Project
- Archaeological Site Management
- The Archaeology of Air Raid Shelters
- Between Preservation and Erasure
- Building Solomon's Temple
- Cane River African Diaspora Archaeological Project
- Children and the Material Culture of Conflict
- China and Its Neighbours
- Chinese Art Markets and Auctions
- Colour in Early China
- Conservation's 'Catch-22'
- The Contemporary Relevance of Archaeology
- Cultures of Commodity Branding
- Digital Lahun Papyri
- Documentation of Iraqi Archaeological Sites
- Egypt Object Subject: 'treasuring things' as knowledge-histories
- Egyptian Periodisation - Object Categories as Historical Signatures (EPOCHS)
- Excavated Manuscripts and the Reconstruction of Chinese History
- Intangible Heritage, Qatar
- Intangible Heritage, Thailand
- I-Treasures
- Keys of the Past: Keys to the Future
- Marine Aggregates and Archaeology
- Museum, Field, Metropolis, Colony: Practices of Social Governance
- Palimpsest Memoryscapes
- People Based Conservation
- Projet Segou, Mali
- Reanimating Cultural Heritage
- Recuperation of the Historical Memory
- Text, Image and Cultural Memory
- Understanding Heritage Wellbeing
- World Heritage in China
Networks
- Archaeology and Communication (IoA network)
- Archaeology and Development (IoA network)
- Conservation and Development (IoA network)
- Endangerment and Its Consequences: Documenting and Preserving Nature and Culture (external network)
- Evaluating Archaeology (IoA network)
- Heritage of Historic Cities and Multiculturalism (external network)
- History of Archaeology (IoA network)
- Material Cultures of Prehistoric and Dynastic Egypt (IoA network)
- Pacific Islands Research Network (IoA network)
- TOPOI-The Formation and Transformation of Space and Knowledge in Ancient Civilisations (external network)
Centres
- Centre for Applied Archaeology
- Centre for Audio-Visual Study and Practice in Archaeology (CASPAR)
- Centre for Museums, Heritage and Material Culture Studies
- International Centre for Chinese Heritage and Archaeology
People
- Marilena Alivizatou
- Paul Basu
- Beverley Butler
- Joe Flatman
- Rodney Harrison
- Kirsty Norman
- Mike Parker Pearson
- Renata Peters
- Dean Sully
- Kathryn Tubb
- Tim Williams
Degrees
- MA in Archaeology and Heritage of Asia
- MA in the Archaeology of the Middle East
- MA in Principles of Conservation
- MA in Cultural Heritage Studies
- MA in Egyptian Archaeology
- MA in Managing Archaeological Sites
- MA in Mediterranean Archaeology
- MA in Museum Studies
- MA in Public Archaeology
- MSc in Conservation for Archaeology and Museums
Courses
graduate
- Archaeological Heritage Management in Asia
- Critical Perspectives on Cultural Heritage
- Cultural Memory
- Cultural heritage and development
- Near Eastern Material Culture 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
- Rock Art Studies: Theories, Methods and Management
- Mediterranean Dynamics
- Mediterranean Prehistory
- Critical Perspectives on Cultural Heritage in China
