No doubt, John, students practising "The practice of conflict archaeology" will be fighting vigorously about their exam marks. Fortunately though the teaching staff are all world leading experts in surveying many different kinds of "Landscapes of conflict". Although this is only a one-year programme they are also very familiar with the long "heritage of warfare" and able to draw on "Material, objects and things" in settling any queries. Further details available from the submission tutor.
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Cornelius Holtorf
* from January 2008: Kalmar University *
Institutionen för arkeologi och antikens historia, Lunds universitet
http://web.comhem.se/cornelius
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From: John Carman <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Friday, November 30, 2007 2:50 pm
Subject: Announcing a new course in Conflict Archaeology
> ***ANNOUNCING A NEW POSTGRADUATE DEGREE IN CONFLICT ARCHAEOLOGY***
>
> The Institute of Archaeology & Antiquity, University of
> Birmingham, UK, is proud to announce its new MA and Postgraduate
> Diploma in Conflict Archaeology, beginning October 2008.
>
> This one-year programme at both MA and Postgraduate Diploma
> (PGDip) levels offers intensive training in the invesigation,
> interpretation and management of the remains of warfare and sites
> of conflict from the most distant past to the present.
> ********
>
> Places of conflict, sites of remembrance
>
> Drawing upon the wide range of skills and knowledge of staff of
> the Institute of Archaeology & Antiquity (IAA) at Birmingham
> University, many of whom are world leading experts in their chosen
> field, this course provides students with broad-based training in
> the archaeology of conflict from the Palaeolithic to the Cold War
> and beyond. Taking a global perspective, the course covers warfare
> in prehistory, battlefield and siege archaeology in the historic
> period, the preservation and study of the remains of war in our
> own age, and issues such as remembrance, conservation and the
> management of conflict sites.
>
> Core modules cover the theory and practice of conflict archaeology
> in all periods, and a dedicated programme of field trips will
> introduce students to major sites of conflict as they appear to us
> today. The course is embedded within Birmingham Archaeology, the
> specialist fieldwork and research services division of the IAA,
> with acknowledged expertise in landscape archaeology and a
> tradition of working on conflict sites.
>
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>
> Course structure and content
> The course comprises six taught modules and (for MA students) a
> dissertation:
> Core modules
> Theoretical approaches to archaeology of conflict
> The practice of conflict archaeology
> Landscapes of conflict
> Field survey
>
> Optional modules
> The heritage of warfare
> Geophysical survey
> Holocene landscapes and archaeology
> Virtual landscapes
> Material, objects and things: the archaeology of artefacts
>
> (MA only) Dissertation
>
>
> For further details, please contact in the first instance:
>
> Dr John Carman
> Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity
> Arts Building
> University of Birmingham
> Edgbaston
> Birmingham B15 2TT
> Tel: +44 (0)121 414 7493
> Fax: +44 (0)121 414 3595
> Email: [log in to unmask]
> www.iaa.bham.ac.uk/staff/carman
>
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