81 Full-time PhD programmes in Archaeology

Research in Ancient Material Religion at The Open University UK involves studying the material, visual and other sensory aspects of ancient cults and rituals, including sacred objects (e.g. statues of divinities, votive offerings, curse tablets), temple buildings and sanctuaries, and human and animal bodies.

Welcome to the University of Bari Aldo Moro's Archaeological, Historical, and Architectural Mediterranean Landscape Heritage Doctoral Program.

The Archaeology programme offered by Umea University develops advanced research expertise in past human societies, material culture, and human–environment interactions through archaeological and environmental archaeological inquiry.

Archaeology at Memorial University of Newfoundland has a growing international reputation founded on the breadth and quality of faculty research, excellence in teaching and state-of-the-art facilities.

School of Archaeology the University College Dublin welcomes applications from potential PhD students in all fields related to Archaeology or World Heritage. 

The Graduate Program in Classical Archaeology (henceforth, the Program) in the Department of Ancient Greek & Roman Studies (henceforth, the Department) at the University of California, Berkeley (henceforth, UC Berkeley) offers both the MA and the PhD degree.

Examine the textual and material evidence for a wide cross-section of the ancient world.

Our PhD Archaeology programme at The University of Manchester will see you undertake substantial original research leading to a thesis that constitutes a genuine contribution to archaeological knowledge.

The Classical Studies discipline has distinctive expertise in the material culture of the ancient world. Greek and Roman Material Culture research at The Open University UK covers a wide range of topics, including votive offerings from ancient sanctuaries, the archaeology of Etruscan Italy, ancient dress, ceramics, and Roman funerary monuments.

Are you interested in doing some independent research work and would like to start a Archaeology doctorate at the University of Bern?

The Archaeology programme at University of Glasgow has an active postgraduate community, carrying out research on a wide range of topics from the Mesolithic to the present day and from Northern Scandinavia to the Eastern Mediterranean.

The Department of Anthropology at the University of Washington offers a phd degree in Archaeology. Join us! 

In the Ph.D. program, students at Southern Methodist University concentrate either in Cultural Anthropology or in Archaeology. 

The Archaeological Anthropology program at New York University seeks both to understand the human past—including cultural origins and evolution, human adaptations, inequality, agriculture, and urban life—and to link this past to the world that we inhabit today.

The Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at The University of Manchester offers this PhD degree in Bioarchaeology.

The Humanities programme at Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan coordinates doctoral education and prepares candidates for advanced academic research.

Our PhDs by Practice are an innovative entry route for anyone working in the sector or with significant experience in the chosen field of practice. This is an opportunity for you to extend your professional practice and consider its intellectual and research context. The Archaeology (by Practice) programme is offered at University of York.

Current research in Archaeology at University of Liverpool uses state-of-the-art interdisciplinary methods and approaches to study the Palaeolithic and Neolithic societies of Southwest Asia, Mediterranean Europe and Africa, human evolution, classical archaeology, the cultures of the ancient Near East and the Mediterranean, later European prehistory and Medieval and post-Medieval archaeology.

In this subject, we study human beings and societies in prehistorical and early historical times through the material remains they have left behind. Archaeology at Uppsala University is global and our researchers work on four continents.

Enjoy the flexibility to follow your own research interests with this Archaeology by Distance Learning programme from University of Nottingham, supported by the expert staff. You may also choose to study for either a PhD or MPhil qualification.