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Undergraduate Archaeology at Exeter

Dr Oliver Creighton - Why Study Archaeology?

Peggy Gilje - Studying BA Archaeology

Archaeology at Exeter is an exciting and varied subject combining fascinating academic study with practical hands-on experience.

Our Single Honours BA Archaeology offers a great range of choice, while the BA Archaeology with Forensic Science is a groundbreaking degree looking at how archaeological and scientific techniques are used to investigate the past and in modern day crime investigations. We also offer Combined Honours programmes in which you can choose to study Archaeology alongside History, Ancient History or Anthropology. Don’t worry if you haven’t studied Archaeology before. Our courses are designed to quickly bring you up to speed.

All of our degrees include practical hands-on experience and fieldwork in the UK or the chance to go abroad. We have large collections of artefacts and often use experiments in our teaching about ancient technologies such as flint knapping, pot making, bronze smelting and casting.

Our department has a relaxed and friendly atmosphere and we are consistently rated as one of the top Archaeology departments for student satisfaction. We are also rated 2nd in the UK for our world-leading and internationally excellent research. Most of our teaching is about British and European archaeology, but our expertise extends across the globe with modules covering North and South American prehistory, North Africa and Asia.

Our degrees equip you for a wide range of careers, providing you with valuable skills sought by employers. You’ll be in the unusual position of having studied a subject which brings together the arts and the sciences and which is practical as well as theoretical.

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