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...

Once upon a time there was a man named Narcissus, a hunter in the Greek mythology, apparently renowned for his beauty. Narcissus was the son of the river god Cephissus and the lymph Liorope. One fine day while Narcissus was on a hunt, he came across a nymph, Echo. She saw his beauty and immediately fell for him. Echo tried to pursue him but Narcissus wouldn’t have any of it. He pushed her away and asked her not to trouble him thereafter. Echo was thus disheartened for life. When Nemesis, the goddess of revenge, came to know of the incident, she decided to teach Narcissus a lesson. She led him to a pool of water, wherein he saw his own reflection and thought it to be of someone else’s and fell in love with it. It was only later that he realised what he saw was his own reflection. He fell in despair because his love could not be reciprocated and he subsequently burnt in passion, turning into a golden and yellow coloured flower. From this story is derived our present usage of the term ‘na...

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...

I have been approached by my juniors and aspiring archaeologists many a times for guidance in applying for studying archaeology outside of India. I finally decided to blog about it so now I can direct people to this link and let them read in detail about the various possibilities. If you are reading this now, hi! I will try to make this article as insightful as I can. At the end of this article, I have listed a few universities, both in India and abroad to get you started.  If any doubts persist after you have read this, feel free to reach out to me. There are two ways to go about this: 1. You are looking to study abroad and want to settle outside India in the future. 2. You are looking forward to training abroad and coming back to India and plan to pursue your career in the country For all the people whose preference is the first option, you all have plenty of options to choose from. If you do not plan on pursuing higher studies, I would recommend you complete your Bachelors in Ar...