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
Turkey
Turkey has always held a special place in the life of the Institute of Archaeology. Over the years, many Institute staff and students have worked on archaeological projects in Turkey, ranging in date from Palaeolithic to Islamic and everything in between. The world-famous Neolithic site of Catalhoyuk was originally excavated by James Mellaart, a Professor at the Institute from 1964-91, and is now excavated by Ian Hodder of Stanford University as an Institute project with participation by many UCL staff and students. A pioneering multi-period survey of north-central Turkey, ancient Paphlagonia, was recently conducted by Roger Matthews, who served as Director of the British Institute at Ankara 1995-2001. The Institute has Socrates-Erasmus links with several universities in Turkey and regularly hosts visiting students and staff from our Turkish partners.
Research
Projects
- Archaeology of growth and development in children
- Boncuklu Hoyuk Project
- Çatalhöyük
- Commensality, Cooking, Dining and the Politics of Gastronomy in the Near East
- The Emergence of Craft Specialisation in the Near East
- Gender and the Emergence of Villages, Cities and States in the Ancient Near East
- Personal Ornaments in the Ancient Near East
- SHULGI: A Geospatial Tool for Modelling Human Movement and Interaction
Networks
- Hunters and Herders - Global Perspectives (IoA network)
People
Degrees
- BA in Archaeology and Anthropology
- BA or BSc in Archaeology
- MA in Archaeology
- MA in the Archaeology of the Middle East
- MA in Archaeology of the Mediterranean and the Middle East
- MA in Egyptian Archaeology
- MA in Mediterranean Archaeology
- MSc in Environmental Archaeology
- MSc in Palaeoanthropology and Palaeolithic Archaeology
Courses
undergraduate
- Introduction to Egyptian and Near Eastern Archaeology
- Archaeology of the Near East: prehistory – 2000 BC
- The Early Prehistory of the Near East
graduate
- Evolution of Palaeolithic and Neolithic Societies in the Near East
- Pattern and Process in the Archaeology of the Middle East
- Mediterranean Dynamics
- Mediterranean Prehistory
