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
Landscape
The Institute is unmatched in its geographic spread and range of approaches to landscape archaeology — its staff undertake research into the management of cultural landscapes, architecture and the landscape, the symbolic significances of places, the social use of space, environmental change and long-term change in the human occupation of space, funerary landscapes, ideational landscapes, experiential landscapes, political landscapes - of governance, conflict and diaspora. We engage in the broadest spectrum of methods for studying prehistoric and historic landscapes including palaeoenvironmental studies, Global Information Systems, large-scale field survey/excvation, phenomenology and anthropological studies. Our multi-period field projects include the study of whole islands – Easter Island, Greek islands, and major regional surveys in Iraq, Turkmenistan, Turkey, southern Italy, as well as period specific studies including the Bronze Age Knossos, and British medieval landscapes.
Research
Projects
- The Archaeology of the Western Isles (Outer Hebrides)
- Beyond the Burghal Hidage
- The Blacken Project
- The Bow Hill Project
- Boxgrove Project
- Buddhist monasteries and monasticism in ancient India
- EES Survey of Memphis
- The Knossos Urban Landscape Project
- Kythera Island Project
- Landscape, Water and Religion in Ancient India
- Landscapes of Governance
- Rapa Nui Landscapes of Construction
- Salinisation in Mesopotamia
- Sanchi Survey Project
- Shahrizor Research Project
- SHULGI: A Geospatial Tool for Modelling Human Movement and Interaction
- Social Perceptions, Water Use and Climate Change
- Transmission of innovations: comparing and modelling the spread of farming practices in Europe (EUROFARM)
- Upper Esino Valley Survey
Networks
- Pacific Islands Research Network (IoA network)
People
- Manuel Arroyo-Kalin
- Paul Basu
- Andrew Bevan
- Sarah Byrne
- Sue Hamilton
- Rodney Harrison
- David Jeffreys
- Mark Lake
- David Orton
- Mike Parker Pearson
- Andrew Reynolds
- Mark Roberts
- Julia Shaw
- Marc Vander Linden
Degrees
- MA in Archaeology
- MA in Archaeology of the Middle East
- MA in Egyptian Archaeology
- MA in Managing Archaeological Sites
- MA in Mediterranean Archaeology
- MA in Urban Archaeology
- MSc in Environmental Archaeology
- MSc in GIS and Spatial Analysis in Archaeology
Courses
undergraduate
graduate
- Geoarchaeology: Methods and Concepts I
- Geoarchaeology: Methods and Concepts II
- Archaeological approaches to the human use of space
- Egyptian Landscapes: Archaeological Perspectives
- Technology in Society: Archaeology and Ethnography in the Andes
- Cities, States and Religions in Ancient India
- Archaeology of Buddhism
- Mediterranean Dynamics
- Mediterranean Prehistory
- Pattern and Process in the Archaeology of the Middle East
