Can anyone help I want to study Archaeology from home, due to my work committments, and have already done GCSE, and want to complete my AS level, any ideas?????

Try this lot. They do AS level archaeology. I can't recommend them from personal experience, but the name keeps popping up.


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Thank you very much, it was much appreciated.

Kerry x

Let us know how you get on Kerry. It's always a bit harder studying on your own, rather than in a class with whom you can compare notes etc., so if you need any moral support, answers to problems, or just someone to moan to sometimes, I'm sure you will find a bit of help here.

I'm a mature archaeology student myself - I started with GCSE a few years ago. But beware - it's addictive! After A level I realised I couldn't stop....

I'm halfway through a Masters degree now and my ambition is to get a PhD before I'm 60!

Thanks Ooban, I will bear that in mind.

I can not wait to get back into it again to be honest I have missed it so much.

Good luck with the Masters, and I promise to contact you when I need help.

We must swop email addresses sometime if you are serious about helpping me out.

Kerry

Yes of course - I'll be delighted to help in any way I can. ooban@btconnect.com is my email addy - drop me a note sometime and we can have a chat.

try Exeter university or Lancaster both are good as each other and do part time studies for armatures archaeologists.

leicester now do distance learning at all levels except a/s level and p/t evening for certificate level. if i get a job i could still do a diploma then the degree then an MA through distance learning.

Ooban can you tell us what you are doing your MA or phd in TUrkey on - Roman archaeology?

I'm half way through the MA course as I'm doing it part time over 2 years - 4 taught modules per year plus a dissertation which counts as another 4 modules. It's officially termed as the Mediterranean Pathway of an MA in Archaeology.

And my dissertation subject is "Afrin Su Kemer - an unrecorded Roman aqueduct in Kilis province, Turkey". There are only two smallish sections of the aqueduct surviving - the rest has been destroyed by earthquakes, erosion and no doubt stone robbing by the locals. I'm researching its history (when it was built, by whom, etc.) and its landscape context, and someone else is doing another MA dissertation on its probable course from source to city (Cyrrhus) and a 3-d computer reconstruction. We have shared some of the research, and the fieldwork of course, and when we've both finished the MAs we will be publishing the work in at least one archaeological journal, although that probably won't be for a couple of years.

The PhD isn't fixed up yet, but I have been asked to do the ancient kingdom of Lycia (Turkey again, but the south-western area this time) from an archaeological and landscape context. It's very tempting - I've been there a couple of times and there are some fantastic sites, I've visited about a dozen and that's only a fraction of the total. I wouldn't be doing any actual excavation but would be looking at why the cities were situated where they were, their territories, inter-relationships, why they flourished after the Greeks and then the Romans took over, then eventually declined.

Fantastic excuse to visit the area many times again and scramble all over those wonderful ruins....

And I actually enjoy the research side too, and fortunately a lot of the previous work on sites in the area has been published in French, which I can read, instead of the usual German which I can't.

Ooban Any chance of you E-mailing me as i have some news for you and my pooter problems wiped your addy

OK mate - will do!

i am not sure if this related but i was watching a programme about geology and archaeology last saturday night at 8.30pm which featured Ephesus the Roman Port - due to a change in climatic conditions and stripping the forest cover and overplanting of wheat etc. the rains carried the soil overburden down the mountains which eventually silted up the harbour and led to mnalarial infestation of swampland! there are some particular fine remains in Ephesus and there is a biblical connection because one of the books in the new testament was written there in Greek around AD60 - Can someone clarify that? i think Paul lived there too? Ephesus was a massive port and city of maybe 250000?

Missed that - dammit! I would have enjoyed watching had I known it was on.

Ephesus is much further up the coast from where I hope to be working but I have visited it, and it's a fantastic, huge site. It's now several miles inland because of constant silting. I went there from Kusadasi, it was supposed to be an excursion from a cruise ship, but it had rained so heavily overnight that the roads were awash with mud and the coach tour was cancelled. I was so disappointed, as it was the site I had wanted to visit most of all, and what's more it was my wedding anniversary, so we waited a couple of hours and took a taxi, which cost a bomb but by the time we got there it was gloriously sunny and we were able to explore all the remains and ruins at our leisure.

Apart form the St. Paul connection, the Virgin Mary is reputed to have ended her days nearby, at Meryemana.

I went to Ephesus on a coach trip whilst staying in Kusadasi. It's eight years ago now, but an experience that will stay with me forever.

It's such an atmospheric place that, despite the searing heat and the crowds, I could have stayed for much longer than the alloted time. But of course we had to move on to the obligatory carpet factory and cup of apple tea!

Ephesus -BRING IT ON and if any turkish people who like the romans and us english archaeologists are reading this you can email me on tw_apk.hermes@ntlworld.com

we dont make enough of our roman heritage here in leicester -thats my line and i am sticking to it!

when it comes to this stuff you can never have enough friends.

imagine being there when St Paul was, the architecture looked fantastic and it was a sort of gateway in the east mediterranean a cross roads of the ancient world in an area of the one of the worlds great civilizations - Greek (we all know that the romans copied much !),

another place i must visit is leptis magna but that is in i think the country next to libya but i want to go there as well because of another roman town and then theres the prehistoric rock paintings and flints in the desert

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Steffan:
Try this lot. They do AS level archaeology. I can't recommend them from personal experience, but the name keeps popping up.

Steffan - just wanted to say thanks for this information, I am now enroled to do my AS level in archaeology and able to do it from home.