Master Prehistory and Historical Archaeology (801 [5] - Version 2024)

• 060120 OV ( OV ) Orientierungsveranstaltung Urgeschichte und Historische Archäologie - Master

Group of Elective Modules: Seminars in Prehistory and Historical Archaeology (24 ECTS from three Elective Modules)

MC WM 1 Theory and Methodology Seminar (8 ECTS)

• 060064 SE Seminar: identities
• 060065 SE Landscape Archaeological Prospection - Theory and practice

MC WM 2 Prehistory Seminar (8 ECTS)

• 060066 SE [ de en ] Europe in the Iron Age

MC WM 3 Historical Archaeology Seminar (8 ECTS)

• 060067 SE Early medieval burial customs in a chronological and regional context

MC WM 4 Cultural History of Archaeology Seminar (8 ECTS)

• 060068 SE [ en ] The Neanderthal - modern human replacement

Group of Compulsory Modules: Applied Academic Research and Writing and Science Communication (20 ECTS)

• 060069 UE Scientific practice
• 060070 SE Topic search and exposé
• 060071 SE Thesis Seminar
• 060073 SE Thesis Seminar

MC PM 1A Applied Academic Research and Writing and Science Communication (14 ECTS)

MC PM 1B Master’s Thesis Phase (6 ECTS)

MC PM 2 Excavation Techniques (13 ECTS)

• 060049 LP Field School Qurayyah
• 060074 UE [ en ] Image-based modelling for archaeology
• 060123 LP [ de en ] Field School Hallstatt Settlement Mitterdorf/St.Barbara im Mürztal

MC PM 3 Interdisciplinary and Disciplinary Special Topics and Methods in Cultural Studies and Natural Sciences (10 ECTS)

• 060075 VO [ en ] Middle Stone Age vs. Middle Palaeolithic
• 060076 VO Textile research in Archaeology - Methods, textile techniques, interpretation, results
• 060079 VU [ en ] Studying human behaviours through soils and sediments - an introduction to Geoarchaeology
• 060090 VU Interdisciplinary research theory and application
• 060122 VO Art and Archaeology in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

Group of Elective Modules: Practice and Specialisation (28 ECTS from four Elective Modules)

MC WM 5 Prospection and Landscape Archaeology (7 ECTS)

• 060101 VO [ de en ] Magnetic archaeological prospection
• 060102 UE [ de en ] Practical archaeological prospection with ground-penetrating radar
• 060104 UE [ de en ] Historical maps 2 - Interpretation and dissemination for deserted village research - Interpretation und Dissemination für die Wüstungsforschung
• 060105 VU Stonehenge - The archaeological Landscape

MC WM 6 Museology and Collection Studies (7 ECTS)

• 060121 UE The study collection in the time between the two world wars

MC WM 7 Archaeological Monument Preservation (7 ECTS)

• 060106 VO Archaeological Monument Preservation
• 060107 UE Archaeological Monument Preservation

MC WM 8 Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology (7 ECTS)

MC WM 9 Material Culture und Archaeological Sciences (7 ECTS)

• 060109 VO Introduction to Archaeometallurgy - Metal technologies and cultural development in Pre- and Early history
• 060110 UE Archaeozoology/Zooarchaeology for Archaeologists
• 060111 UE Wood as a raw material during the Bronze Age
• 060118 VO Introduction to portable energy dispersive X-ray-fluorescence and isotope ratios - Grundlagen und Fallbeispiele

MC WM 10 Human Evolution and Bioarchaeology (7 ECTS)