MSc Environmental Archaeology at University of the Highlands and Islands

The MSc Environmental Archaeology is taught in Orkney and combines practical training in field investigation, archaeobotany, zooarchaeology, soil micromorphology and osteoarchaeology with theory and method. Students finish with either a 60-credit placement or a research-based dissertation. Modules can be taken individually or towards a PgCert, PgDip or full masters.

Duration: Full time: 1 year; part time: 2 years  |  Intake: September  |  Study mode: full-time / part-time  |  Location: Inverness, Scotland, United Kingdom

What you will study

The PgCert has core modules in environmental archaeology in the Anthropocene and professional practice plus one option such as archaeology of the Highlands and Islands, human remains in archaeology or Vikings and Norse in the North Atlantic. The PgDip adds practical archaeobotany and/or practical zooarchaeology and options such as excavation, Neolithic studies and the Iron Age in the Atlantic world. The MSc is completed with an environmental archaeology dissertation or placement.

Career pathways

Government agencies and local authorities, commercial archaeology units and consultancy, and tourism, heritage sites and national and countryside parks. Further study options include MRes, MPhil and PhD.

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