约克大学 · 动物考古学理学硕士 硕士

📖 项目简介

You will study 180 credits over the duration of your course:

• Semester 1 - one core and two option modules
• Semester 2 - one core and one option module, with an 80 credit dissertation
• Summer Semester - 80 credit dissertation continued
• Modules
• Dissertation
• Animal Bones for Archaeologists
• Zooarchaeology in Context

You will choose three option modules from examples including:

• Ancient Biomolecules
• Biomolecular Laboratory Techniques
• Caring for Collections: Principles of Practice
• Data Science for Archaeology
• GIS and spatial analysis
• Professional Practice: Zooarchaeology or Human Osteology
• The Archaeology of the Human Skeleton
• Any period specific module

You'll also have the opportunity to choose options from our full module catalogue:

• Archaeologies of Colonialism in the British Atlantic World
• Artefacts and Materials Analysis
• Becoming Human
• Building Conservation Projects
• Buildings Recording
• Contemporary Issues in Museums
• Critical Approaches to Archaeological Practice
• Death, Burial and Commemoration in the Roman World
• Debates in Funerary Archaeology
• Digital Creativity
• Digital Approaches to Archaeology
• Experimental Archaeology
• Heritage Principles and Concepts
• Histories of Conservation
• Landscape Survey and Geophysics
• Life and Death in Iron Age Britain and Ireland
• Making the Nation
• Medieval Settlement and Communities
• Mesolithic Life and Death
• Museums, Audiences & Interpretation
• Prehistoric Art: Origins and Transitions
• Presenting Historic Houses
• Project Management
• Researching & Analysing Historic Buildings
• Roman Archaeology: Ancient pasts, current issues
• Roman Europe
• Skeletal Evidence for Health in the Past
• Sustainability I: definitions of sustainability & methods of assessment
• Sustainable Buildings
• Sustainable Conservation Challenges
• Sustainability II: understanding sustainability as change through time
• The Ancient Celts: Archaeology and Identity in Iron Age Europe
• The Archaeology of Roman Religion
• The Viking Age: People, Places, Things
• Thinking through Material Culture
• Understanding & Interpreting Historic Buildings
• Virtual Reality and 3D Modelling

Our modules may change to reflect the latest academic thinking and expertise of our staff, and in line with Department/School academic planning.

You'll complete a 10,000-word dissertation on your research.

You will receive support, advice and guidance from your dissertation supervisor throughout your project. The range of expertise of our staff means we can provide you with guidance on a wide range of topics. You will have one-to-one meetings with supervisors across Semester 2 and the Summer Semester.

Examples of previous dissertations have included:

• Fishing practices and transitions in the Mesolithic and Neolithic of Adriatic Croatia: insights from the fish remains from the site of Vela Spila, Korčula.
• 'Sleipnir's Rejects': comparing disarticulated horse remains with horse burials in the Anglo-Scandinavian Danelaw.
• ZooMS collagen fingerprinting as a tool for interpreting sheep and goat husbandry at Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Turkey.
• Osteochondrosis in sheep and cattle: differential diagnosis and estimating prevalence.
• A taphonomic analysis of a small vertebrate assemblage from Kinsey Cave, Yorkshire.
• The use of augmented reality as a teaching aid in zooarchaeology.
• An identification guide for the petrous bones of domestic animals.

Every course at York is built on a distinctive set of learning outcomes. These will give you a clear understanding of what you will be able to accomplish at the end of the course and help you explain what you can offer employers. Our academics identify the knowledge, skills, and experiences you'll need upon graduation and then design the course to get you there.

• Demonstrate an applied, systematic, in-depth understanding of essential disciplinary knowledge of zooarchaeology, and awareness of its breadth and its relevant academic, professional a

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✨ 项目特色

You’ll work with world‐leading academics who’ll challenge you to think independently and excel in all that you do. Our approach to teaching will provide you with the knowledge, opportunities, and support you need to grow and succeed in a global workplace.

You will be taught through a combination of lectures, workshops and seminars, with an emphasis on student led-discussion. You will have hands-on practical classes.

You'll have access to specialist laboratories for ancient DNA analysis, proteomics, microscopy and isotope geoscience, and to the expertise of evolutionary anatomists from the Hull York Medical School , with their suite of 3D scanning, modelling and Geometric Morphometrics (GMM) capabilities.

Explore our facilities

You will be based on Campus West. Practical classes will take place in the PalaeoHub , a facility that brings Archaeology together with the functional and comparative anatomists from the Centre for Anatomical and Human Sciences , part of the Hull York Medical School.

Our beautiful green campus offers a student-friendly setting in which to live and study, within easy reach of the action in the city centre. It's easy to get around campus - everything is within walking or pedalling distance, or you can always use the fast and frequent bus service.

You will be assessed by a variety of methods. Depending on which modules you opt to take, these could include:

• Essays
• Oral presentations
• Report writing
• Dissertation
• Alternative assessment methods such as film-making, blogging or posters

🎯 入学要求

You will need to submit examples of written work with your application. Please see our guidance on submitting written work .

If English isn't your first language you may need to provide evidence of your English language ability. We accept the following qualifications:

For more information see our postgraduate English language requirements .

You may be eligible for one of our pre-sessional English language courses . These courses will provide you with the level of English needed to meet the conditions of your offer.

The length of course you need to take depends on your current English language test scores and how much you need to improve to reach our English language requirements.

After you've accepted your offer to study at York, we'll confirm which pre-sessional course you should apply to via You@York .

You can apply and send all your documentation online. You don’t need to complete your application all at once: you can start it, save it and finish it later.

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