Lectures & Seminars - TBC:

Term 1

Introduction – excavation & survey – documenting

Week 1 Introduction & History of Archaeology

Week 2 Possibilities and limitations of Archaeology

Week 3 What is special about Classical Archaeology? Theoretical developments

Week 4 Excavations. Stratigraphy, assemblages of finds. Horizontal and vertical approach

Week 5 Recognition of sites and surveys

Week 6 Reading week – no class

Week 7 Underwater archaeology

Week 8 Recording – journal, drawing, photographs. Description and reconstruction

Week 9 Dealing with finds.Excavation and post excavation techniques

Week 10 Case studies of sites / Seminar

Term 2

Chronology – study & interpretation

Week 1 Methods of dating I: relative and absolute chronology

Week 2 Methods of dating II: styles, ‘evolution’. Imitation and false

Week 3 Iconography

Week 4 Archaeology and written (primary) sources; literature, papyrology, epigraphy, numismatics

Week 5 Public and private space – architecture & sculpture – gardens / Seminar

Week 6 Reading week – no class

Week 7 Pottery & terracottas I

Week 8 Archaeology and archaeozoology

Week 9 Pottery & terracottas II / Seminar

Week 10 Coins

Term 3

Study & publication - museum

Week 1 Attributing finds to geographical areas and tracing back moving and commercial relations - publications

Week 2 Archaeology and museums. Visit to a Museum

Week 3 Revision

Week 4 Revision

Rome, Forum Romanum