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
This Archaeology major requires the completion of 48 units, of which:
A maximum of 12 units may come from the completion of 1000-level courses, and
A minimum of 18 units must come from the completion of 3000-level courses
12 units from the completion of course(s) from the following list:
ARCH1001 Uncovering the Past (6 units)
ANTH1002 Culture and Human Diversity: Introducing Anthropology (6 units)
A minimum of 6 and a maximum of 18 units from the completion of 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 (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)
ARCH2058 European Prehistory from Cultivation to the Celts (6 units)
ARCH2061 Archaeological Field Methods (6 units)
ASIA2018 Maps and Mapping in Asia and the Pacific (6 units)
ASIA2130 The Archaeology of Rock Art in Asia, Pacific and Australia (6 units)
ASIA2203 Archaeology of China (6 units)
A maximum of 12 units from the completion of the following list:
ARCH2055 Archaeological Fieldschools and Fieldwork Practice (6 units)
ASIA3220 Asia-Pacific In-Country Learning (6 units)
A minimum of 18 units from the completion of the following:
ARCH3006 Professional Archaeology
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)
ENVS3029 Palaeo-Environmental Reconstruction (6 units)
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