All Things Archaeology

I am quickly going to do a small piece on what the master’s degree in archaeology would look like in England. This is for the aspirants who are looking to do their post-graduation from the UK and want an idea of what to look forward to. The postgraduate taught master’s degrees in England are usually one to two year long in duration when pursued full-time. Part time masters can be anywhere between two to four years long. There are also two types of master’s degrees in England - taught and research based. The research based one is more close to what we call MPhil in India and the taught degree is like the regular master’s where the course is taught by lecturers.   The structure of the course depends on the subject of the master’s. For instance, I studied MSc Environmental Archaeology, so as the title suggests all the course modules were related to/ centered around that particular topic. There are a vast range of options to choose from for all the semesters except a few compulsory/ co...

In September 2021, it will be three years since I enrolled for my PhD program. Normally, I'd be expected to be somewhere in the middle of completing my research or nearing towards the end of it. When I joined the course, I was determined to submit my thesis in three and a half years maximum. Now before I write anything else, let me first tell you about my topic of research. The subject that I have chosen to work on is not employed in mainstream archaeological application in India. At the time of applying I was very well aware of this fact and looked at it as a challenge that I thought I could take on (I still think I can). So you see, the research subject already had its limitations when I enrolled. It took me a good one and a half year to find a collaboration to get my samples processed into data that I could analyse. This collaboration I found at a department in Delhi University. I travelled there with the soil samples in February 2020 and prepared them for the initial stage. Due...

Many of us are very passionate about achieving our goals in the field which doesn’t have vast scope as compared to Commerce, Engineering,and Medicine etc. One cannot always rely on parents financially and when we try to take up a career in something the very next thing that comes to our head is this career going to pay all my bills? Will it make me financially independent? Getting a job in the field of archaeology is not an easy thing. Archaeology is a subject which is both humanistic and scientific.This study involves use of scientific techniques for reconstructing past. A job of an archaeologist is mainly to reconstruct past human activities based on the material remains, and these material study form an independent field or branch of archaeology. They bring in independent branches and subjects of expertise. For.eg. the archaeological studies are divided into Prehistory, Proto-history,and History. Which are further divided accordingly under these three categories. The subject of hist...