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Department of Archaeology, University of Sheffield

The Department of Archaeology at the University of Sheffield, UK, was an academic department dedicated to archaeology from 1976 to January 2025, based in the city of Sheffield, South Yorkshire. The department was founded in 1976, stemming from early archaeology programs in the 1960s. As of 2026, archaeological research and postgraduate courses in archaeology at Sheffield are located in the school of history, philosophy and digital humanities and the school of biosciences. The department's past research specialisms included Prehistoric Europe, Classical Antiquity, Medieval Archaeology and Post-Medieval Britain, as well as landscape archaeology, funerary archaeology, material culture studies, zooarchaeology, osteology, bioarchaeology, and the archaeology of the Mediterranean. From its inception in the 1960s, Sheffield developed a worldwide reputation for leading the science-based revolution in archaeology and theoretical turns in archaeological interpretation. The department was under threat of closure or merging into other departments from May 2021, with closure planned at the end of the 2023/24 academic year. The University's Executive Board followed up on this decision in January 2025.

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