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
Iron Age
The Institute has
eleven members of staff actively working on the Iron Age, with a geographical
coverage from Egypt, the ancient Near East, Italy (Tuscany (the Etruscans),
Marche and Puglia), and the Black Sea (Scythians) to continental Europe and the
British Isles. Collectively, their work offers a large-scale comparative
archaeology of the first millennium BC and considers the long-term evolution of
settlement and landscape. Foci of research include: Iron Age societies in Britain and
western Europe, urban and rural societies; socio-political identities and
theoretical approaches to culture contact and change and the relations of local
Iron Age communities with the Roman world; and the social contexts and materials
science of Iron Age artefacts – metal artefacts, ceramics, and textiles.
Research
Projects
- The Ancient Levant
- The Archaeology of the Western Isles (Outer Hebrides)
- The Making of the Middle Sea
- Petrie Palestinian Project
- Production and Consumption: Textile Economy and Urbanisation in Mediterranean Europe 1000-500BCE (PROCON)
- Textile Fibre in Italy before the Roman Empire (FIBRE)
- Upper Esino Valley Survey
People
- Cyprian Broodbank
- Richard Bussmann
- Margarita Gleba
- Sue Hamilton
- Susanna Harris
- David Jeffreys
- David Kertai
- Kris Lockyear
- John Merkel
- Mike Parker Pearson
- Corinna Riva
- Mark Roberts
- Ellen Shlasko
- Rachael Sparks
- David Wengrow
- Todd Whitelaw
- Katherine Wright
Degrees
- BA in Archaeology and Anthropology
- BA or BSc in Archaeology
- BA in Egyptian Archaeology
- MA in Archaeology
- MA in Archaeology and Heritage of Asia
- MA in the Archaeology of the Middle East
- MA in Archaeology of the Mediterranean and the Middle East
- MA in Comparative Art and Archaeology
- MA in Egyptian Archaeology
- MA in Mediterranean Archaeology
- MSc in Environmental Archaeology
Courses
undergraduate
- 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 Egyptian and Near Eastern Archaeology
- World Archaeology: an outline of the deep history of human societies (for BA Arch & Anth students only)
- Archaeology of Ancient Egypt
- Archaeology of the Near East from 2000 to 300 BC
- Bronze and Iron Age Britain
- Archaeology of Early South Asia
- Archaeology and Art of Early Historic Asia
- The Archaeology of Etruscan Italy
- Economy and Trade in the Mediterranean Iron Age
- Iron Age Europe
graduate
- Archaeologies of Asia
- Themes and issues in the archaeology of the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East
- Mediterranean World in the Iron Age
- Society and Culture in Ancient Egypt
- British and European Prehistory: Neolithic to Iron Age
- Climate Change and Human Responses in Holocene Africa
- Near Eastern Material Cultures II: Middle Bronze Age through the Iron Age
- Cities, States and Religions in Ancient India
- Archaeology of Buddhism
- Funerary Archaeology
- Pattern and Process in the Archaeology of the Middle East
- Mediterranean Dynamics
- Mediterranean Prehistory
- Social Complexity in Early China: from the Neolithic to the Early Empire
