The minor in archaeology provides students with the opportunity to explore archaeological techniques and the evidence for 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; and
- 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.
Relevant Degrees
Requirements
The Archaeology Minor requires the completion of 24 units, which must include:
A maximum of 12 units from the completion of courses from the following list:
ANTH1002 - Culture and Human Diversity: Introducing Anthropology (6 units)
ARCH1001 - Uncovering the Past: A Survey of Global Archaeology and Methods (6 units)
A minimum of 12 and a maximum of 24 units from the completion of courses from the following list:
ARCH2004 Australian Archaeology (6 units)
ARCH2005 Archaeology of the Pacific Islanders (6 units)
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)
ARCH2041 Introduction to Environmental Archaeology (6 units)
ARCH2050 Archaeology of Southeast Asia (6 units)
ARCH2052 Archaeology in Film and Fiction (6 units)
ARCH2055 Archaeological Field Schools and Fieldwork Practice (6 units)
ARCH2058 European Prehistory from Cultivation to the Celts (6 units)
ARCH2061 Archaeological Field Methods (6 units)
ARCH2220 Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Field Schools
ARCH3006 Professional Archaeology (6 units)
ARCH3023 Thinking Through the Past: Archaeological Theory from 1950 (6 units)
ARCH3026 History of Archaeology: Discovering the Past (6 units)
ARCH3030 Archaeology of Ritual and Religion (6 units)
ARCH3042 Scientific Dating in Archaeology and Palaeoenvironmental Studies (6 units)
ARCH3043 Analysis of Vertebrate Remains (6 units)
ARCH3108 Animal and Plant Domestication (6 units)
ASIA2018 Maps and Mapping in Asia and the Pacific (6 units)
ASIA2130 The Archaeology of Rock Art in Asia, the Pacific and Australia (6 units)
ASIA2203 Archaeology of China (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 |
12 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 | ||
| 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 |
| ARCH2052 | Archaeology in Film and Fiction | 6 |
| 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 Theory from 1950 | 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 3019: Topics in Pacific Archaeology | ||
| ARCH 3021: Archaeological Field Methods | ||
| ASIA2203 | Archaeology of China | 6 |
| BIAN3113 | Human Evolution | 6 |
| BIAN3125 | Ancient Health and Disease | 6 |
| BIAN2128 | Forensic Anthropology and Archaeology | 6 |
| BIAN 2130: Ancient Medicine | ||
| BIAN 3010: Dating in Arch and PaleoEnv | ||
| BIAN 3016: Analysis of Mammalian Remains |