Bioarchaeology Dissertation (ARCM600)

60 credits

The dissertation is a self-contained study based on your own research, counting for 60 credits. You will undertake research that has archaeological applications and present the results at greater length than you have had opportunity to in other parts of your course. You will need to work out a topic to study, in conjunction with your programme director, and to establish how you will set about answering the research question(s) posed. The choice of topic is your own; it is important to choose something that offers good possibilities for developing an independent piece of work. You will learn how to collect and collate data from a range of sources, to analyse and present information, to develop skills relating to illustration, and to create hypotheses about the data based on your analysis. The completed work should be a well-written study of the topic under discussion, with illustrations of high quality and a fully developed bibliography.

This module is a core requirement of the MSc in Bioarchaeology.