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New environmental archaeology masters degree starting in 2026

A new environmental archaeology masters degree is coming to the UHI Archaeology Institute in 2025.
Alannah, Sue, Ross and Jean with Associate Professor Scott Timpany during an auguring/core sampling practical session. (📷 Tom O’Brien)
Alannah, Sue, Ross and Jean with Associate Professor Scott Timpany during an auguring/core sampling practical session.
(📷 Tom O’Brien)

The UHI Archaeology Institute’s new environmental archaeology masters degree begins in September 2026.

Like our MSc Archaeological Practice, the new taught postgraduate degree will be residential over one year full-time or two years part-time.

Picture: Tim Winterburn

Students on the course can select from two routes – either undertaking a dissertation or an environmental archaeology placement. They will also be able to choose modules from across our masters programmes but with core modules such as research and dissertation skills (if choosing the dissertation route) and environmental archaeology in the Anthropocene.

Key to the new course are the practical lab-based modules, such as practical archaeobotany and practical zooarchaeology, which will take advantage of the new AEonS facility when it is up and running.

Watch this space for more information.


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