Environmental archaeology is an interdisciplinary subject that looks at how humans have drawn on the environment and shaped landscapes and ecologies over the long term. From hunter and gatherers to the first farmers and pastoralists cultures have been shaped by their environment and impacted past landscapes and other species.
The practices that have modified the environment through domestication, species dispersal, extinction, erosion, farming and other landscape modifications have followed distinctive paths across the world long before before written records. Archaeology recovers the evidence for past human environments in ancient soils and the remains of animals and plants. The theory and methods studying this through geoarchaeology, zooarchaeology, and archaeobotany are explored in this course.
You will learn to collect and analyse data, to follow this through lab work and to report and interpret scientific results to a high standard.
The course is designed to enhance career prospects by giving you transferable skills attractive to employers in a wide range of businesses and sectors, such as:
You will also develop problem-solving skills and learn to build positive working relationships.
Graduate destinations for the Environmental Archaeology MSc* include:
Commercial archaeology units:
Heritage and Education: