Master Prehistory and Historical Archaeology (801 [4] - Version 2019) - discontinued

Group of elective modules: Seminars of Prehistory and Historical Archaeology (24 ECTS)

WM 1 Theory and Methodology Seminar (8 ECTS)

• 060078 SE Sensory Archaeology in Prehistory and Historical Archaeology

WM 2 Prehistory Seminar (8 ECTS)

• 060079 SE Archaeological Sites in Trentino-South Tyrol

WM 3 Protohistory and Historical Archaeology Seminar (8 ECTS)

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

WM 4 Cultural History of Archaeology Seminar (8 ECTS)

PM 1 Applied Academic Research and Writing (15 ECTS)

• 060083 VU Scientific practice
• 060088 SE Thesis Seminar
• 060089 SE Thesis Seminar
• 060091 SE Thesis Seminar

PM 2 Excavation Techniques (15 ECTS)

• 060048 LP Practical Fieldwork: Ratzersdorf
• 060049 LP Excavation practice 1 and 2: late antique hilltop settlement Müllendorf
• 060052 LP [ en ] Excavation 1 and 2: Grub-Kranawetberg - Upper Palaeolithic
• 060093 LP Theory and Practice of Archaeological Stratigraphy and Advanced Surveying

PM 3 Interdisciplinary and Disciplinary Special Topics in Cultural Studies and Natural Sciences (12 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
• 060101 VO Introduction to Archaeometallurgy - Metal technologies and cultural development in Pre- and Early history
• 060109 VO Introduction into the Archaeology of Western Asia
• 060111 VO Death and Burial in Medieval and Modern Age Central Europe

PM 4 Interdisciplinary and Disciplinary Methods in Cultural Studies and Natural Sciences (17 ECTS)

• 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
• 060110 UE Practical Exercises to the Introduction into the Archaeology of Western Asia
• 060113 VU Taphonomy and Archaeothanatology
• 090110 UE Antiquities of Greece 1834-1899: cultural history by objects

Alternative compulsory module of Practice and Specialisation (7 ECTS)

APM 1 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

APM 2 Museology and Collection Studies (7 ECTS)

APM 3 Archaeological Monument Preservation (7 ECTS)

APM 4 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

PM 5 Field Trip: International Cultural Area (5 ECTS)