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Birmingham University, Inst. for Archaeology & Antiquity

 
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Contact name Professor Vincent Gaffney
Contact Position Professor of Landscape Archaeology and Geomatics
Contact Address Inst. for Archaeology & Antiquity
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
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Telephone 0121 414 5497
Fax 0121 414 3595
Website http://www.iaa.bham.ac.uk

Details

Staff 80
Members / Students 800

Ratings

RAE 1996 4
RAE 2001 4
RAE 2008 2.55
TQA 2001 22

Courses

Undergraduate Courses Archaeology (including Archaeology with Anthropology, Geology, Ancient History)
Postgrad courses Archaeology & Heritage Management

Teaches Archaeology, Ancient History, Classics, Ancient Near East studies, Assyriology, Egyptology, Forensic and Environmental Archaeology. Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek studies. Training excavations in Britain and abroad.

What they say:

"Our Archaeology and Ancient History degree programme integrates archaeological and ancient historical approaches to ancient civilisations such as those of Ancient Egypt and Rome. By interpreting historical and archaeological evidence together, we can build a rounded picture of the life and culture of these ancient societies.

The Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity is a lively environment where students find friendly encouragement to follow their own particular interests in the past, and where they can gain the necessary skills to equip them for a variety of careers in the future. Our distinctive emphasis on using literature, history and archaeology in the study of the ancient world, and the range of expertise available, ensures a wide choice of times, countries and cultures may be studied."

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Birmingham

Overall rating: 
 
8.3
Reviewed by Andrew Selkirk
August 07, 2007
 
The origins of archaeology at Birmingham are very mixed. It began as Classical Archaeology but then there was Graham Webster in the Extra-Mural Department and Philip Rahtz doing Medieval History and then Martin Carver came along and set up the Birmingham University Field Archaeology Unit. The head of Department is now John Hunter, formerly at Bradford University, who has special interests both in Orkney, and in forensic archaeology.
 
 


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