ISLAMIC ARCHAEOLOGY

•  ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELD SCHOOL ON TALL HISBAN, JORDAN, June 2020  (canceled)

 More information: Hisban 2020 

• ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELD SCHOOL ON TALL HISBAN, JORDAN, June-July 2018

More information: Archaeological Field School on Tall Hisban, Jordan 

• THE NEW M.A. PROGRAM IN ISLAMIC ARCHAEOLOGY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF BONN IS NOW OPEN FOR ENROLLMENT FOR WINTER SEMESTER 2017/2018

The M.A. in ISLAMIC ARCHAEOLOGY is mainly taught by PROF. BETHANY J. WALKER, an international highly recognized researcher and expert in ISLAMIC ARCHAEOLOGY, publisher and editor of numerous groundbreaking publications as well as head of several excavations in the Middle East. Her classes are taught in English.

It includes modules such as

• INTRODUCTION TO ISLAMIC MATERIAL CULTURE

• THEORY AND METHODS IN ISLAMIC ARCHAEOLOGY

• RESEARCH PROBLEMS IN ISLAMIC ARCHAEOLOGY TODAY 

• INTERNSHIP IN ISLAMIC ARCHAEOLOGY.

The newly established M.A. in ISLAMIC ARCHAEOLOGY provides the unique opportunity for students to study in Bonn not only the Islamic culture in general but its archaeology in particular and is supported by the possibility of hands-on trainings in the Laboratory of the RESEARCH UNIT OF ISLAMIC ARCHAEOLOGY which contains thousands of artifacts from the Middle East, especially pottery but also glassware, metal objects, lithics and bones.

The students may also seize the opportunity to participate in one of the international research projects or to be part of an international Field School at Tall Hisban, Jordan, a multi-component Tell Site in Central Jordan with Roman ruins and a medieval castle, situated in the Madaba Plains.

FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT Prof. Dr. Bethany J. Walker