Archaeology at the University of Glasgow is a wide-ranging and broad-minded discipline, in which fieldwork and laboratory analysis go hand in hand with theoretical reflection and sophisticated interpretation. It also involves interdisciplinary and international collaboration, and our staff and students may consequently be found excavating Viking houses in Iceland, dissecting a Bronze Age burial in Scotland, or examining clays and soils in Sardinia.

Scotland and the Mediterranean are the regions of our primary focus in studying the material culture of the distant and recent past, ranging from tiny flints, to monumental nuraghi or brochs, to entire landscapes.