The BA in Archaeology allows you to explore the past and its people from a primarily humanities-based perspective, although all of our degree courses involve learning skills and techniques in both the sciences and the humanities. The BA in Archaeology offers you the widest range of module options to choose from, and you can follow your interests in any time period. Archaeologists study the material remains of the human past - the ‘stuff’ that tells us about everyday life. This includes the landscapes, settlements and buildings in which people lived, worked, prayed and played, the art and artefacts they made, including their clothes, jewellery, cooking pots and weapons, and the graves and monuments they used to commemorate their dead. We're also interested in the natural environments of human communities, as well as people themselves. Their bodies, diet, diseases, and relationships to geography, climate, plants and animals all provide evidence helping us discover more about past societies. Alongside studying what happened in the past, we're also concerned with the role of the past in the present. We are passionate about how historic sites are conserved, presented and accessed by the public – with making history matter in today’s society.

problem solving; creative thinking; analysis and interpretation of evidence; project management skills; public engagement; IT literacy and numeracy; equal aptitude in written and verbal communication; a sense of geography and space, and a global perspective.