The major in archaeology provides students with the opportunity to learn archaeological techniques and comprehend the evidence of past human societies in different locations, from the deep past to more recent periods. Courses cover a wide range of regional cultural sequences and archaeological and interdisciplinary methodologies for understanding and investigating past people's worlds.
Learning Outcomes
- use archaeological evidence to identify cross-cultural patterns and variation in the human past to address critical questions about human society and development;
- describe the long-term cultural changes in different parts of the world to explain the nature of ancient and historic life and cultural transformations;
- critically evaluate archaeological evidence to reconstruct cultural and environmental systems, chronologies, and patterns of interaction;
- draw on a range of archaeological and interdisciplinary interpretative, laboratory and field methods to identify, record, and critically analyse data about past people and their ways of life; and
- develop a deep understanding of professional ethics, dialogic collaboration and consultation practices to work effectively and respectfully in heterogeneous teams to study past people and their worlds.
Relevant Degrees
Requirements
The Archaeology major requires the completion of 48 units, of which:
a maximum of 12 units must come from the completion of 1000-level courses, and
a minimum of 18 units must come from the completion of 3000-level courses
The 48 units must consist of:
18 units from the completion of the following compulsory courses:
ANTH1002 Culture and Human Diversity: Introducing Anthropology (6 units)
ARCH1001 Uncovering the Past: A Survey of Global Archaeology and Methods (6 units)
ARCH3023 Thinking Through the Past: Archaeological History and Theory (6 units)
12 units from the completion of courses from the following list:
ARCH2004 Australian Archaeology (6 units)
ARCH2041 Introduction to Environmental Archaeology (6 units)
ARCH2061 Archaeological Field Methods (6 units)
A maximum of 6 units from the completion of courses from the following list:
ARCH2007 Archaeological Laboratory Methods (6 units)
ARCH2030 Angkor: Power and Glory. The Rise of States in Southeast Asia (6 units)
ARCH2037 From Empire to Invasions: the Archaeology of Europe from the Romans to the Vikings (6 units)
ARCH2050 Archaeology of Southeast Asia (6 units)
ARCH2055 Archaeological Field Schools and Fieldwork Practice (6 units)
ARCH2058 European Prehistory from Cultivation to the Celts (6 units)
ARCH2220 Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Field Schools (6 units)
ASIA2130 The Archaeology of Rock Art in Asia, the Pacific and Australia (6 units)
A minimum of 12 units from the completion of courses from the following list:
ARCH3006 Professional Archaeology
ARCH3030 Archaeology of Ritual and Religion (6 units)
ARCH3042 Scientific Dating in Archaeology and Palaeoenvironmental Studies (6 units)
ARCH3043 Advanced Methods in Environmental Archaeology (6 units)
ARCH3108 Animal and Plant Domestication (6 units)
ENVS3029 Palaeo-Environmental Reconstruction (6 units)
12 units from completion of the following course(s):
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| ARCH 1111: Archaeology Uncovered | ||
| ARCH 1112: From Origins to Civs |
36 units from completion of the following course(s):
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| ANCH 2009: Artefacts & Society | ||
| ANCH 2014: Homer and the Trojan War | ||
| ARCH 2002: Britain before the Romans | ||
| ARCH2004 | Australian Archaeology | 6 |
| ARCH2005 | Archaeology of the Pacific Islanders | 6 |
| ARCH 2006: Hist of Archaeology | ||
| ARCH 2017: Landscape Archaeology | ||
| ARCH2037 | From Empire to Invasions: the Archaeology of Europe from the Romans to the Vikings | 6 |
| ARCH2041 | Introduction to Environmental Archaeology | 6 |
| ARCH2050 | Archaeology of Southeast Asia | 6 |
| ARCH 2052: Archaeology in Film & Fiction | ||
| ARCH 2054: Arch of Death & Mortuary Prac | ||
| ARCH2055 | Archaeological Field Schools and Fieldwork Practice | 6 |
| ARCH 2056: Britons and Romans | ||
| ARCH3023 | Thinking Through the Past: Archaeological History and Theory | 6 |
| ARCH2058 | European Prehistory from Cultivation to the Celts | 6 |
| ARCH 2108: Animals, Plants & People | ||
| ARCH 2130: World Rock Art | ||
| ARCH 2600: Archaeology of Buddhism | ||
| ARCH 3000: Research Design - Archaeology | ||
| ARCH 3019: Topics in Pacific Archaeology | ||
| ARCH 3021: Archaeological Field Methods | ||
| ASIA2203 | Archaeology of China | 6 |
| BIAN3113 | Human Evolution | 6 |
| BIAN 2115: 'Race' & Human Genetic Var | ||
| BIAN3125 | Ancient Health and Disease | 6 |
| BIAN2128 | Forensic Anthropology and Archaeology | 6 |
| BIAN 2130: Ancient Medicine | ||
| BIAN 3010: Dating in Arch and PaleoEnv | ||
| BIAN2015 | Human Skeletal Analysis | 6 |
| BIAN 3016: Analysis of Mammalian Remains |