12.5 1st year Associate Professor A Sagona. None. First semester Two lectures and a tutorial a week. Students on completion of the subject should have developed a knowledge of the basic approaches of modern archaeology, and an understanding of how civilisations in the remote past operated, interacted and changed through time; have developed a knowledge and appreciation of the ways in which archaeologists design their work to investigate questions about the past; have developed skills in communicating archaeological issues and concepts; have developed a sense of historical perspective and appreciate the legacy of past cultures; have acquired an appreciation of cultural diversity. An introduction to sets of archaeological methods applied to the study of past human cultures from around the world. 2,000 words of written work (50 per cent) and a 2-hour examination or equivalent (50 per cent). C Renfrew and P Bahn, Archaeology: Theory, Methods and Practice, London, 1991 D L Webster, S T Evans and W T Sanders, Out of the Past: An Introduction to Archaeology, Mountain View, California, 1993