Supervision and research facilities are available in a wide range of topics; additional supervision is available from staff in Faculties of Classics and Oriental Studies; the Department's research interests range widely in time period from Palaeolithic to Early Medieval; geographical range includes Europe, Near East, Africa, Asia and Australia; research workers are encouraged to undertake excavation and survey overseas; research interests specially catered for include: landscape interpretation; soil morphology; scientific rescue archaeology; archaeobotany; environmental archaeology; early agriculture; Palaeolithic and Mesolithic archaeology; palaeolenvironmental studies; dating methods; Aegean Prehistory, Neolithic and Bronze Age Europe; Indian Prehistory and Protohistory; Anglo-Saxon England, Europe in migration and Early Medieval periods; life histories of prehistoric monuments; complex societies, Andean archaeology, settlement patterns; Ancient Near East; integrated geophysical survey, remote sensing, geographical information systems and spatial databases.

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