Global Archaeology Leiden University

Overview

With Global Archaeology the study of our past can help you understand and resolve current societal issues. Explore the dynamics in past societies: innovation, adaptation, resilience and resistance in processes of long- and short-term changes. Global Archaeology will invite you top step into a lively, multifaceted community and gives you access to researchers from many different backgrounds and to international networks all over the world.

Follow your personal interests, and choose from a plethora of focus areas. Will you focus on the deep past of humankind? Or do you prefer to dive into the Roman world? Or would you rather study pre-Columbian America? Or do you want to specialise on Dutch archaeology? Whatever your personal interests, you will find something to your liking in this programme.

Why Global Archaeology at Leiden University?

• Study at a Faculty that has quite rightly earned a place in the top ten of archaeology research and teaching institutes in the world.
• Make use of our regional expertise on Europe, the Near East, the Mediterranean, and the Americas.
• Benefit from our large network in international research.
• Gain a solid basis for a national or international career in archaeology, heritage management, heritage policy or the museum world.

What you will learn

Graduates will be able, taking a given research question as their starting point, to collect the relevant archaeological source material and to interpret that material in the framework of the research question, if necessary in association with different source material.

Career prospects

The last few years have witnessed a favourable development in the Dutch archaeological job market. Funds for carrying out rescue excavations have become available in large building budgets. Employment can therefore chiefly be found in Dutch archaeology on a contract or project basis, either with commercial companies or with (semi-) government institutions. The additional disciplines of the archaeology programme in Leiden also provide a sound basis for finding employment both in the Netherlands as abroad.

Examples of jobs

• Field Archaeologist
• Policy Maker on Heritage
• Museum Curator
• Archaeology Consultant

Accreditation

Accredited by NVAO, the Accreditation Organisation of the Netherlands and Flanders.