Master of Arts Archaeology program covers current thinking on some of the best known and most spectacular archaeological sites. It considers the most pressing questions in archaeological research and provides an introduction to the tools and skills archaeologists require to reconstruct the past. The teaching is multidisciplinary, reflecting the broad range of disciplines (drawn from the arts, humanities, social sciences, and sciences) that underpin archaeological method and theory.

Students have the opportunity to study a broad range of time periods and different approaches to reconstructing the past. These include human evolution, later hunter-gatherers, the first farmers, and the later prehistoric societies of the Iron Age.