Programme Director

MA Archaeology: Professor John Moreland  (j.moreland@sheffield.ac.uk)

Programme Induction Meeting

Date & time: 20 September 2023, 10:00-11:00

Venue: Broad Lane Block, Lecture Theatre 8

This will be an informal group discussion to prepare you for the academic year and an opportunity to meet other students on your programme and ask questions. Individual meetings between yourself and your tutor can also be arranged by email at a mutually agreeable time.

Programme Regulations 

Please use our programme regulations finder tool to view the structure of the programme of study, including the core units and approved modules you can take. It is important to review this information prior to selecting your modules.

> Enter AAPT209 in the search field and select 23-24 in the second drop down menu, then press 'search'. Please note that these regulations apply to both the full-time and part-time programmes.

Module Choice

Selecting the non-core modules you wish to study is part of the pre-registration process and you will be able to do this via the online module choice (OMC) system from 1 September 2023.  We have prepared some guidance.

Introductory Reading

As this programme is very diverse in its coverage, it is not possible to provide an introductory reading list for all areas and topics. However, those listed below might help provide an insight in to certain areas or periods, especially if you haven’t studied archaeology before.

For an introduction to the development of the discipline and archaeological theory;

Trigger, Bruce G. A history of archaeological thought. Cambridge University Press, 1989.

Johnson, Matthew. Archaeological theory: an introduction. John Wiley & Sons, 2019.

The Oxford Handbooks Series provide excellent introductions to recent thinking in archaeology as they have all been published in the last ten years. For Britain/Europe I suggest you look at those listed below- but if you look on the library catalogue you’ll see others covering various locations and topics around the world.

Fowler, Chris, Jan Harding, and Daniela Hofmann, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Neolithic Europe. OUP Oxford, 2015.

Harding, Anthony, and Harry Fokkens, eds. The Oxford Handbook of the European Bronze Age. OUP Oxford, 2013.

Wells, Peter S., Katharina Rebay-Salisbury, and Colin Haselgrove, eds. The Oxford Handbook of the European Iron Age. Oxford University Press, 2018.

Millett, Martin, Louise Revell, and Alison Moore, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Roman Britain. Oxford University Press, 2016.

Hamerow, Helena, David A. Hinton, and Sally Crawford, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Archaeology. OUP Oxford, 2011.

Gerrard, Christopher M., and Gutiérrez López Gutiérrez, eds. The Oxford handbook of later medieval archaeology in Britain. Oxford University Press, 2018.

Some more thematic volumes cover interesting topics from multiple periods;

Insoll, Timothy, ed. The Oxford handbook of the archaeology of ritual and religion. Oxford University Press, 2011.

Tarlow, Sarah, and Liv Nilsson Stutz, eds. The Oxford handbook of the archaeology of death and burial. OUP Oxford, 2013.

Crawford, Sally, Dawn Hadley, and Gillian Shepherd, eds. The Oxford handbook of the archaeology of childhood. Oxford University Press, 2018.

Albarella, Umberto, et al., eds. The Oxford handbook of zooarchaeology. Oxford University Press, 2017.