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Since then, various combined courses have also been developed including: Classics and modern languages; Ancient and modern history (AMH); and; Classical archaeology and ancient history (CAAH). In 2004 the full lit. hum. course was revised; students examined since 2008 now choose eight papers from a wide range of subject areas:
Explores the prehistory of Europe from the arrival of the first humans until the end of the Viking Age. We will study Neanderthal and modern human interactions, the ritual systems of Palaeolithic cave painters, the Atlantic societies that built megalithic monuments, the beginnings of agriculture, the Mycenaean culture that became Europe's first civilization, and the Northern European "vikings ...
The University of the Philippines Diliman School of Archaeology is a degree-granting unit of the University of the Philippines Diliman specializing in archaeological studies surrounding the discovery, excavation, analysis, interpretation, and preservation of Southeast Asian and Philippine archaeological relics.
One of the methods of archaeometallurgy is the study of modern metals and alloys to explain and understand the use of metals in the past. A study conducted by the department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics at Weizmann Institute of Science and the department of Archaeology at the University of Haifia analyzed the chemical composition and the mass of different denominations of Euro coinage.
Professor Hale has created numerous well-reviewed [36] long-form lecture series for audio and video with The Great Courses. These include: Greek and Persian Wars (24 lectures) [37] Classical Archaeology of Ancient Greece and Rome (36 lectures) [38] Art of Public Speaking: Lessons from the Greatest Speeches in History (12 lectures) [39]
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to archaeology: Archaeology – study of cultures through the recovery, documentation, and analysis of material remains and environmental data, including architecture , artifacts , biofacts , human remains, and landscapes .
ACE Masters courses provide options for advanced training in human evolution, Old World prehistory, human palaeoecology, archaeological sciences, the archaeology, languages and cultures of the Mediterranean, the Ancient Near East and Egypt, the history, cultures and receptions of ancient Greece and Rome, and ancient Greek and Latin.
Archaeology is distinct from palaeontology, which is the study of fossil remains. Archaeology is particularly important for learning about prehistoric societies, for which, by definition, there are no written records. Prehistory includes over 99% of the human past, from the Paleolithic until the advent of literacy in societies around the world. [1]