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The Archaeology Coursebook: An Introduction to Study Skills, Topics and Methods

By: Jim Grant; Sam Gorin et al. | Book details

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Part Two

Studying Themes in Archaeology
The content of archaeology courses can be arranged in many ways. All include methods but they are selective and often include an element of choice in their areas of archaeological knowledge. Some focus on particular parts of the world, following continuity and change over time, e.g. ‘British prehistory’. Others may focus on change but take a whole world perspective, looking at topics such as ‘human origins’ or ‘the origins of farming’. Some concentrate on particular cultures in more limited periods such as ‘the classical world’ while others, including A Level, are organised around themes. Whichever course you take you will need to use case studies. In fact the same case studies might be relevant to all these courses. For example, the Iron Age settlement at Hengistbury Head could be used to study:
■ the emergence of elites and trade in Iron Age Britain
■ the development of towns and commercial trade
■ the influence of the Roman Empire
■ settlement function, exchange and manufacturing.

We have chosen to organise this section thematically partly because it mirrors the A Level syllabus and partly because an understanding of the themes is more transferable. A study of Maya temples may not be immediately useful to a student studying Neolithic Britain and vice versa, but an introduction to concepts of religion and ritual will be useful to both. We have included content, but its function is to illustrate. It may well be in just the right size chunks to put into essays but it is there to provide examples of archaeological ideas and debates.

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