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

Orientation Course

• 060123 OV ( OV ) Orientation and Introduction Master Programme

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)

• 060078 SE Sensory Archaeology in Prehistory and Historical Archaeology

MC WM 2 Prehistory Seminar (8 ECTS)

• 060079 SE Archaeological Sites in Trentino-South Tyrol

MC WM 3 Historical Archaeology Seminar (8 ECTS)

• 060081 SE Selected topics on the late Iron Age in Scandinavia (400-1050)

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

• 060082 SE Making archaeology relevant for the present: archaeology and the Sustainable Development

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

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

• 060083 VU Scientific practice
• 060084 EX International Excursion "Trentino-South Tyrol"

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

• 060085 SE [ de en ] Seminar Master Thesis: finding a topic, structure and exposé
• 060088 SE Thesis Seminar
• 060089 SE Thesis Seminar
• 060091 SE Thesis Seminar

MC PM 2 Excavation Techniques (13 ECTS)

• 060048 LP Practical Fieldwork: Ratzersdorf
• 060049 LP Excavation practice 1 and 2: late antique hilltop settlement Müllendorf
• 060051 LP Practical fieldwork 1 and 2: Kammern-Grubgraben - palaeolithic open air site
• 060052 LP [ en ] Excavation 1 and 2: Grub-Kranawetberg - Upper Palaeolithic
• 060053 LP Practical Fieldwork in Svinjaricka Cuka, Serbia - Neolithic
• 060054 LP Practical Fieldwork Königsberg, Tieschen
• 060055 LP Practical Fieldwork Százhalombatta-Földvár - a Bronze Age tell settlement at the Danube
• 060056 LP Practical fieldwork 1 and 2: Bistricioara-Lutarie III (East Carpathians/ Romania) - multi-layered Upper Palaeolithic open air site (Gravettian Epigravettian Late Palaeolithic)
• 060057 LP Field School Mitterdorf/St.Barbara im Mürztal
• 060092 UE Applied Field Archaeology
• 060093 LP Theory and Practice of Archaeological Stratigraphy and Advanced Surveying

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

• 060095 VO Premodern Material Culture and the Senses
• 060097 VO Selected topics on the Viking Age
• 060098 VO Archaeological prospection using ground-penetrating radar
• 060100 VO Underwater archaeological prospection and documentation methods
• 060102 VU Introduction to music archaeology
• 060103 VU Jewellery from Prehistory to the Medieval Period an interdisciplinary approach
• 060104 UE Airborne Laser Scanning (LiDAR) for archaeologists
• 060105 VU [ en ] Studying human behaviours through soils and sediments - an introduction to Geoarchaeology
• 060106 UE Geoarchaeological field practice
• 060107 VO The Ordering Gaze: Museums‘ and Collection-(hi)stories
• 060109 VO Introduction into the Archaeology of Western Asia
• 060110 UE Practical Exercises to the Introduction into the Archaeology of Western Asia
• 060111 VO Death and Burial in Medieval and Modern Age Central Europe
• 060112 VO Principles of Social Archaeozoology
• 060113 VU Taphonomy and Archaeothanatology
• 090036 VO Basic principles of archaeological fieldwork and documentation of find material

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

MC WM 5 Prospection and Landscape Archaeology (7 ECTS)

• 060098 VO Archaeological prospection using ground-penetrating radar
• 060100 VO Underwater archaeological prospection and documentation methods
• 060104 UE Airborne Laser Scanning (LiDAR) for archaeologists
• 060105 VU [ en ] Studying human behaviours through soils and sediments - an introduction to Geoarchaeology
• 060106 UE Geoarchaeological field practice

MC WM 6 Museology and Collection Studies (7 ECTS)

• 060107 VO The Ordering Gaze: Museums‘ and Collection-(hi)stories
• 602001 SE [ de en ] Organisation of an Academic Conference

MC WM 7 Archaeological Monument Preservation (7 ECTS)

MC WM 8 Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology (7 ECTS)

• 060109 VO Introduction into the Archaeology of Western Asia
• 060110 UE Practical Exercises to the Introduction into the Archaeology of Western Asia

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

• 060095 VO Premodern Material Culture and the Senses
• 060103 VU Jewellery from Prehistory to the Medieval Period an interdisciplinary approach

MC WM 10 Human Evolution and Bioarchaeology (7 ECTS)

• 060111 VO Death and Burial in Medieval and Modern Age Central Europe
• 060112 VO Principles of Social Archaeozoology
• 060113 VU Taphonomy and Archaeothanatology