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
Mediterranean
The Mediterranean is a unique theatre, half-land, half-sea, and the
largest extent of a distinctive and challenging type of environment on
the planet. As the meeting point of Asia, Africa and Europe, it has
formed one of the crucibles of cultural change, interconnections and
large-scale developments in world history, from the emergence of modern
humans, through the expansion of farming, emergence of complex polities
and evolution of maritime connections, up to (and beyond) the
civilisations of Classical antiquity. Many members of the Institute
offer cutting-edge expertise in specific periods and regions within and
surrounding the Mediterranean, and several direct field projects that
are generating fresh insights into its societies. Beyond this, a
critical mass are committed to Mediterranean-wide research and teaching
from comparative and diachronic perspectives that aim to transform our
understanding of its social, economic and cultural dynamics.
Research
Projects
- Antikythera Survey Project
- The Knossos Urban Landscape Project
- Kythera Island Project
- The Making of the Middle Sea
- The natron-based glass industries
- Pre-Pottery Neolithic and Chalcolithic settlements and subsistence economy
- Production and Consumption: Textile Economy and Urbanisation in Mediterranean Europe 1000-500BCE (PROCON)
- Qadisha Valley Project, Lebanon
- Textile Fibre in Italy before the Roman Empire (FIBRE)
- Upper Esino Valley Survey
Networks
People
- Mark Altaweel
- Andrew Bevan
- Cyprian Broodbank
- Sue Colledge
- Ian Freestone
- Margarita Gleba
- Patrick Quinn
- Corinna Riva
- Daniela Rosenow
- David Wengrow
- Todd Whitelaw
Degrees
- MA in Archaeology
- MA in the Archaeology of the Middle East
- MA in Comparative Art and Archaeology
- MA in Egyptian Archaeology
- MA in Mediterranean Archaeology
- MA in Urban Archaeology
- MSc in Environmental Archaeology
Courses
undergraduate
- The Prehistoric Mediterranean
- Theory and Method for the Archaeology of the Ancient World
- The Emergence of Bronze Age Aegean States
- Late Bronze Age Aegean in the Mediterranean world
- The Archaeology of Etruscan Italy
- Economy and Trade in the Mediterranean Iron Age
graduate
- Themes and issues in the archaeology of the E Mediterranean and Middle East
- The Aegean from first farmers to Minoan states
- The Late Bronze Age Aegean
- Mediterranean Dynamics
- Mediterranean Prehistory
- Mediterranean World in the Iron Age
- Ancient Italy in the Mediterranean
- Pattern and Process in the Archaeology of the Middle East
