Research dissertation

You will undertake a research project and produce a dissertation which is submitted on an assigned date in mid-August.

Your research project takes the form of a dissertation, worth 60 credits, which is submitted on an assigned date in mid-August.

The Programme Director and teaching staff will help you to choose a topic, and find a supervisor.

Example dissertation topics

Past dissertation topics have included:

• Were they equals or uneven partners?: Colonial encounters in the Iberian Peninsula in the first millennium BC. Phoenician Communities in Málaga.
• Cyprus during the Early and Middle Bronze Age: The Case of the Western Part of the Island through a reassessment of CPSP and PAP Surveys
• An Investigation into the nature of the palatial involvement in the pastoral and wool economies of EBA-MBA Anatolia
• Road to the Otherworld: A Zooarchaeological Approach to the Romanisation of the Eastern Iberian Peninsula
• The Antecedents of the Temple Builders: Cultural Continuity from the Pre-temple to Temple Period on Neolithic Malta
• Kingdoms at the Crossroads: Selective incorporation of foreign display styles and the creation of independent identity in LBA northern Levantine city-states
• The Archaeology of Christianization in Pamphylia
• The role of tin in Central and Western Anatolia during the Early Bronze Age
• Women in Ancient Mesopotamia: Tracing the Status of Elite Women in Ancient Mesopotamia from the Early Dynastic to the Old Babylonian Period through Glyptic and Figural Representations
• Regionalism in Cyprus in the MCIII-LCI transition
• Powerful Images: Reading Villanovan Bronze Belts
• The organisation and administration of copper in late Bronze Age Cyprus
• The Bronze Age Ceramic Identity of Prastio Mesorotsos in Western Cyprus
• A Synthesis and Comparison of Cypro-PPNB and Levantine PPNB Mortuary Practices