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
Europe
Europe is the westernmost extension of the Eurasian continent. It has no clear boundaries in the East, and the Mediterranean often was more a connection than a boundary between Southern Europe, Northern Africa and Western Asia. Europe was first settled ca. 1.2 million years ago, and anatomically modern man arrived from Africa ca. 200.000 years ago. Agriculture and farming was introduced from Anatolia in the 7th Millennium BC. As antiquarian research started very early in Europe, and most of it is densely settled, the archaeology of the continent is comparably well known. There is no uniform "European prehistory", instead, in different periods different areas shared similar ways of life.
Research
Projects
- The Archaeology of Alchemy and Chemistry in the Early Modern World
- Ceramic Temper and identity groups
- Cultivating Societies
- Cultural Evolution of Neolithic Europe (EUROEVOL)
- Early Farming in Dalmatia
- Excavations at Buendia Rockshelter, Spain
- Excavations at Cova Gran, Spain
- Excavations at Roca dels Bous, Spain
- Hand to Mouth
- Noviodunum Archaeological Project
- Origins and Spread of Stock-Keeping in the Near East and Europe
- Textile Fibre in Italy before the Roman Empire (FIBRE)
- Transmission of innovations: comparing and modelling the spread of farming practices in Europe (EUROFARM)
- Upper Esino Valley Survey
Networks
- AG Forschungsgeschichte/History of Archaeology (external network)
- Arbeitsgemeinschaft Neolithikum/Neolithic Workgroup (external network)
- Hunters and Herders - Global Perspectives (IoA network)
- Neanderthals and Modern Humans in the Palaeolithic of Europe and Western Asia (IoA network)
- Theorie AG - Arbeitsgemeinshaft Theorie (external network)
People
- Sue Colledge
- Enrico Crema
- Kevan Edinborough
- Margarita Gleba
- Sue Hamilton
- Susanna Harris
- Rodney Harrison
- Tim Kerig
- Jane Kershaw
- Kris Lockyear
- Marcos Martinón-Torres
- David Orton
- Mike Parker Pearson
- Matthew Pope
- Miljana Radivojević
- Thilo Rehren
- Andrew Reynolds
- Stephen Shennan
- Ulrike Sommer
- Adrian Timpson
- Ignacio de la Torre
- Marc Vander Linden
Degrees
- BA in Archaeology and Anthropology
- BA or BSc in Archaeology
- MA in Archaeology
- MA in Mediterranean Archaeology
- MA in Urban Archaeology
- MSc in Palaeoanthropology and Palaeolithic Archaeology
Courses
undergraduate
- Introduction to European prehistory
- Structure and Change in Later European Prehistory
- From Farmers to Metallurgists in Prehistoric Europe
- Iron Age Europe
- The Age of Stonehenge
graduate
- Medieval Archaeology: select topics and current problems
- Mediterranean Dynamics
- Mediterranean Prehistory
- The Archaeology of Pre-modern Humans in Eurasia
