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Cardiff University School of History & Archaeology

 
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Contact

Contact name Mrs Kate Mumford
Contact Position Secretary
Contact Address School of History & Archaeology
University of Cardiff
Cardiff
CF10 3XU
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Telephone 029 208 74470
Fax 029 208 74929
Website http://www.cf.ac.uk/hisar/aboutus/archaeology

Details

Staff 20
Members / Students 150
Founded 1920

Ratings

RAE 1996 4
RAE 2001 5
RAE 2008 2.6

Courses

Undergraduate Courses BA Archaeology
BSc Archaeology
BA Archaeology and Ancient History
BA Archaeology and Medieval History
BA Archaeology & Conservation
Postgrad courses MA Archaeology
MA History and Archaeology of the Greek and Roman World
MPhil Archaeology
PhD Archaeology

Together with over two dozen lecturers, technicians, administrators and researchers, a large undergraduate contingent and a substantial population of Masters and Doctoral students, Cardiff are the largest archaeology department in the region and one of the longest established in the UK.

What they say:

Cardiff Archaeology and Conservation is an energetic group of distinguished archaeologists and conservators delivering high quality undergraduate and postgraduate education and providing cutting edge professional services to the heritage and museum community. Specialisms range from the study of the early Celtic world to the conservation of ferrous metals, the interpretation of prehistoric art, the application of Information Technology to the study of the past, and on to an extensive range of regions, periods, materials and techniques.

We offer undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in Archaeology and in Conservation, and our students benefit from being part of a large, well-managed and funded university. As part of the Cardiff School of History and Archaeology we collaborate closely with our colleagues in Ancient History and History and Welsh History and we work with many other departments in other parts of the university. Strong Cardiff traditions of teaching and research focus on fieldwork carried out on a global scale and laboratory analytical work at the cutting edge of archaeological science and conservation. Our trademarks are hands-on practical excellence and innovative interpretive research and publication.

Editor review

Cardiff

Overall rating: 
 
8.7
Reviewed by Andrew Selkirk
August 07, 2007
 
Cardiff was perhaps the leading archaeology department in the 1960s and 1970s with R J C Atkinson as Professor and Leslie Alcock as Reader and they produced what is known as the "Taffia" (the Welsh Mafia) which is found everywhere in archaeology. Cardiff University went through a bit of a crisis in the 1980s when bankruptcy loomed and the Department of Archaeology had to be slimmed down, but the department is now expanding again as a section within the School of History and Archaeology. They are strong on European prehistory and it is possible to do a BA in Archaeology and Ancient History, and there is also a strong Conservation department.
 
 


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