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Centre for Archaeology, Anthropology & Heritage

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About the Centre

Centre for Archaeology, Anthropology & Heritage

Exploring the Past
Understanding the Present
Shaping the Future

We are concerned with all aspects of the Historic Environment as evidence of past human activity and its associated consequences that people can find, see, hear, understand, feel, debate, and contest in the present world. Archaeology provides a systematic study of human cultures through material remains asking who did what? When? Where? How? And Why? Physical and biological Anthropology both informs archaeological studies and assists in crime-scene investigations, the preparation of evidence for use by courts of law, and the application of technical and scientific knowledge to legal problems. Heritage, both cultural and natural, tangible and intangible, focuses on the things inherited from the past that we choose to investigate, document, manage, interpret, use, and represent in various ways.

Our research focuses around six interconnected themes which carry through into our undergraduate and postgraduate programmes and field schools:
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