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

Orientation Course

• 060118 OV ( MIXED ) Information-event for students studying Prehistory and Early History

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)

• 060077 SE [ de en ] ( ON-SITE ) Selected topics an landscape and settlement archaeology in Northern Europe
• 060115 SE [ de en ] Advanced Topics in Archaeological Prospection and Landscape Archaeology

MC WM 2 Prehistory Seminar (8 ECTS)

• 060078 SE ( ON-SITE ) Prehistoric Art: figurines in context

MC WM 3 Historical Archaeology Seminar (8 ECTS)

• 060079 SE Function and Interpretation in Archaeology of the Middle Ages

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

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)

• 060080 VU Scientific practice: Interdisciplinary work - Interdisziplinäres Arbeiten
• 090044 EX Excursion: Minoan Crete

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

• 060082 SE [ de en ] SE Master Thesis: finding a topic, structure and exposé
• 060083 SE Thesis Seminar
• 060084 SE [ de en ] Thesis Seminar
• 060085 SE Thesis Seminar

MC PM 2 Excavation Techniques (13 ECTS)

• 060049 LP Excavation practice Ratzersdorf
• 060051 LP Excavation practice 1 and 2: late antique hilltop settlement Müllendorf
• 060052 LP [ de en ] Practical fieldwork (4 weeks) 1/2: Kammern-Grubgraben - palaeolithic open air site - paläolithischer Freilandfundplatz
• 060053 LP [ en ] Excavation Grub-Kranawetberg (Upper Palaeolithic) BA & MA
• 060054 LP [ de en ] Excavation practice in Keszthely-Fenékpuszta
• 060055 LP Training excavation Königsberg, Tieschen
• 060056 LP [ de en ] Százhalombatta-Földvár - a Bronze Age tell settlement at the danube - eine bronzezeitliche Tellsiedlung an der Donau
• 060057 LP Practical fieldwork 1/2 (20 days of work): Bistricioara-Lutarie III (East Carpathians/ Romania) - multi-layered Upper Palaeolithic open air site (Gravettian - Epigravettian - Late Palaeolithic)
• 060088 UE Advanced Field Archaeology: Excavation management
• 060089 LP Theory and Practice of Archaeological Stratigraphy and Advanced Surveying
• 060119 LP Field School Hallstatt Settlement Mitterkirchen (OÖ)

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

• 010095 VU [ en ] Cognitive and Evolutionary Science of Religion
• 060028 KU A Glimpse into Purses from the Past? The Post-Ancient Coin Finds from St. Pölten
• 060030 KU Coins in a Museum: Building an Exhibition and Creating an Audio
• 060037 KU Sacra Moneta: Late Roman Coinage from 294 to 313 CE
• 060091 VO Underwater Photography in Archaeological Prospection
• 060092 VU [ de en ] Cultural history of the horse (from Prehistory to the Middle Ages) - Von der Urgeschichte bis ins Mittelalter

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

MC WM 5 Prospection and Landscape Archaeology (7 ECTS)

• 060093 UE [ de en ] Practical archaeological prospection with ground-penetrating radar
• 060095 VO [ de en ] Underwater archaeological prospection and documentation

MC WM 6 Museology and Collection Studies (7 ECTS)

• 060030 KU Coins in a Museum: Building an Exhibition and Creating an Audio
• 060097 VO The Ordering Gaze: Museums‘ and Collection-(hi)stories
• 060098 UE Museums as stages for knowledge - between dramaturgy, authenticity and inclusion - Zwischen Dramaturgie, Authentizität und Inklusion
• 060099 UE [ de en ] Exhibition Design - Communication techniques and concepts - Techniken und Konzepte der Vermittlung

MC WM 7 Archaeological Monument Preservation (7 ECTS)

MC WM 8 Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology (7 ECTS)

• 060100 UE [ de en ] The archaeology of Jordan

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

• 060037 KU Sacra Moneta: Late Roman Coinage from 294 to 313 CE
• 060101 VO [ de en ] Principles of economic archaeozoology
• 060102 VU [ de en ] Ceramics in Focus. Theory and Analytical Methods.
• 060103 UE Internship Palaeolithic faunal remains

MC WM 10 Human Evolution and Bioarchaeology (7 ECTS)

• 010095 VU [ en ] Cognitive and Evolutionary Science of Religion
• 060101 VO [ de en ] Principles of economic archaeozoology
• 060104 UE Zooarchaeology for Archaeologists
• 060105 UE [ de en ] 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)