Archaeology

Prehistoric archaeology was initially taught at Edinburgh over a hundred years ago, and in 1927 Gordon Childe became the first professor of the subject. Today Archaeology has a dozen teaching staff, with a wide portfolio of interests.

Find out more about studying Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh.

The research interests of our staff cover aspects of prehistory, early civilizations, classical archaeology, Byzantine archaeology, bioarchaeology and experimental archaeology.

Archaeology is a close-knit community with access to excellent facilities including labs and artefact teaching collections.