Archaeology
Leiden University · Leiden, Netherlands
- Level
- Bachelor's
- Award
- BACHELOR
- Study mode
- Full-time
- Campus
- Leiden
- Credits
- 180 ECTS_PUNT
Leiden University does not publish a fee for this programme on its own. Its published rate for bachelor's programmes is €2,694 – €24,500 a year for international students.
About this programme
### Introduction Archaeology is an exciting discipline, in which you combine very different skills and fields of knowledge. You venture out into the world to discover, study and interpret traces of past societies in the landscape, but you also work with both your head and hands in the classroom, in the laboratory, and at your desk, applying academic theories and analysing archaeological materials. You often have to interpret scanty information, and fill in the gaps by thinking like an anthropologist, even if you are reconstructing life in societies we can no longer see. Where possible, you use historical sources, like a historian, but you also explore whether you can use high-tech methods from the natural sciences. Archaeology can therefore always be found at the interfaces between history and the social and natural sciences. The field of archaeology itself encompasses the deep and even deepest history of humans, human societies and our intervention in nature. As an archaeologist you also collect a large amount of valuable information that can shine new light on the big issues society faces today. You study early examples of globalisation and mass migration, following them over the centuries. You study examples of growing social inequality and its effects on different groups in society. You deliberate over when humans first began to affect nature significantly and the long-term consequences of this, even for the population of today's world. You study how different socie
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