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

• 060090 OV ( MIXED OV ) Information event for prehistory and historical archaeology students - Master

Orientation Course

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)

• 060043 SE The archaeological discourse on the basis of scientific events
• 060044 SE Site and Landscape

MC WM 2 Prehistory Seminar (8 ECTS)

• 060045 SE Intra-Alpine Bronze Age

MC WM 3 Historical Archaeology Seminar (8 ECTS)

• 060047 SE The archaeology of equestrian (warrior) nomadism - a European perspective on the study of the Huns, Avars, Bulgarrs, Chazars and Old Hungarians

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

• 060043 SE The archaeological discourse on the basis of scientific events

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)

• 060048 UE Scientific practice

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

• 060049 SE Master Thesis: finding a topic, structure and exposé
• 060050 SE Thesis Seminar
• 060051 SE Thesis Seminar
• 060052 SE Thesis Seminar

MC PM 2 Excavation Techniques (13 ECTS)

• 060001 LP Field School Qurayyah
• 060053 UE [ en ] Image Based Modelling for archaeology

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

• 060035 UE Practical application of aerial archaeology
• 060037 UE [ de en ] Runestones and Runic Inscriptions as Sources for Landscape and Historical Archaeology
• 060054 VO Advanced Underwater Archaeological Survey and Documentation Methods - The Scientific Diver
• 060055 UE Practical preparation of professional scientific documents with LaTeX for archaeologists
• 060056 VU [ de en ] Settlement and burial customs in Northern Europe in the 1st millennium A.D.
• 060057 VU Nordic Bronze Age
• 060064 UE [ en ] Lithic raw material classification (Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic)
• 060065 VU Material culture studies - Interpretation of grave- and setlement finds with textiles and tools, including excursions to textile collections
• 060066 UE Applied Statistics for Archaeologists I - Ceramic Find Analysis
• 060102 VO Hunter-Gatherer and Social Evolution
• 060107 VU [ de en ] Bronze Age mining, copper production and metal exchange networks in Europe
• 060112 UE Exposure, recovery and preparation of Ice Age megafaunal remains on archaeological sites - Langmannersdorf (Lower Austria) Upper Palaeolithic open air site of the LGM (Last Glacial Maximum)
• 060114 VO [ en ] Raw material economy in the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic

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

MC WM 5 Prospection and Landscape Archaeology (7 ECTS)

• 060035 UE Practical application of aerial archaeology
• 060054 VO Advanced Underwater Archaeological Survey and Documentation Methods - The Scientific Diver
• 060058 VO Magnetic archaeological prospection
• 060059 UE [ de en ] Practical archaeological prospection with ground-penetrating radar
• 060060 UE [ de en ] Historical maps 1 - Interpretation and preparation for archaeological investigations

MC WM 6 Museology and Collection Studies (7 ECTS)

• 060061 UE Narratives of the study collection
• 080001 VO Museum 360°: Perspectives, Debates and Challenges

MC WM 7 Archaeological Monument Preservation (7 ECTS)

• 060062 VO Archaeological Monument Preservation
• 060063 UE Archaeological Monument Preservation

MC WM 8 Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology (7 ECTS)

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

• 060064 UE [ en ] Lithic raw material classification (Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic)
• 060065 VU Material culture studies - Interpretation of grave- and setlement finds with textiles and tools, including excursions to textile collections
• 060066 UE Applied Statistics for Archaeologists I - Ceramic Find Analysis
• 060107 VU [ de en ] Bronze Age mining, copper production and metal exchange networks in Europe
• 060112 UE Exposure, recovery and preparation of Ice Age megafaunal remains on archaeological sites - Langmannersdorf (Lower Austria) Upper Palaeolithic open air site of the LGM (Last Glacial Maximum)
• 060114 VO [ en ] Raw material economy in the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic

MC WM 10 Human Evolution and Bioarchaeology (7 ECTS)