• Mode: research and professional
• Duration (in credits): between 60 and 120
• Qualification awarded: Official Master's Degree in Quaternary Archaeology and Human Evolution. Also the European Master's Degree in Quaternary and Prehistory, if students do courses at both the URV and another university of the consortium.
• Places available: 25
• Cost per credit
• Admission to doctoral programmes 
• Contact

• Participating institutions
• Presentation
• Admission requirements
• Contents
• Modes
• Pre-registration

Participating institutions

Rovira i Virgili University (coordinator)

This official master's degree is associated with the European Master by agreement with the following universities:

- University of Ferrara (Italy)
- The Polytechnic Institute of Tomar (Portugal)
- University of Tràs-os-Montes and Alt Douro (Portugal)
- National Museum of Natural History (Paris, France)
- University of Alger

Compulsory student mobility: Optionally this can be done in another country of the consortium (recommendable but not obligatory)

Presentation

The course is structured around three main components: research into human palaeoecology and prehistory, palaeoanthropology, geology and palaeontology of the quaternary; intervention archaeology in this stage of evolution, and the management, conservation and socialization of archaeological heritage. This official URV qualification shares the formative aims and activities of the degree courses in History and Geography through a series of introductory subjects to a specialization in archaeology.

Admission requirements

The Master's Degree courses are open to anybody with an official university qualification, even Spanish or foreign (this foreign degree must enable you to be admitted to postgraduate studies in the country where you obtained it).

In addition, universities in charge of the organization of a Master can establish those procedures and requirements considered necessary to be finally admitted to the Master. Therefore, as well as having a previous official degree, you should get informed about additional conditions and selection criteria which may have been addittionally established by each Master.

Contents

Course taught in: Catalan/Spanish/English

The master's degree has obligatory and fundamental content that all students must study, a range of subjects that students select as a function of their future professional profile and a credit package for personal research that will serve, if appropriate, to design and organize their doctoral thesis.

It is taught in conjunction with three European universities and has been selected for the Erasmus Mundus programme of the European Union. This enables students to acquire a complete training in a variety of institutions.

Obligatory subjects

First year
Geology of the Quaternary
Prehistory of Asia and Oceania
Prehistory in Europe
Prehistory in Africa
Excavation and Record Methods in Quaternary Archaeology
Human Palaeoecology
Computer science and Statistics Applied to Archaeology

Second year
Epistemology and Knowledge Theory in Archaeology
Human Evolution
Research Project 

Subjects on each schedule

Professional schedule: Intervention Archaeology: Management, Conservation and Socialization of Heritage

- Interpretation of Heritage
- Preservation and Restoration
- Mammoth Palaeontology
- Zooarchaeology and Taphonomy
- Prehistory of the Iberian Peninsula
- Molecular Archaeology
- Spatial Archaeology
- Systems of Graphic Documentation
- Experimental Archaeology
- Lithic Technology
- Crystallographic Characterization
- The Archaeology of Symbolic Behaviour
- Prehistory of America
- Microscopic Analysis

Research schedule in Human Palaeoecology and Prehistory

- Ethnoarchaeology
- Palaeoenvironmental Reconstruction
- Crystallographic Characterization and Chemistry of Archaeological Materials
- The Archaeology of Symbolic Behaviour
- Prehistory of the Iberian Peninsula
- Prehistory in America
- Spatial Archaeology
- Archaeology of the Mind and Cognition
- Experimental Archaeology
- Lithic technology
- Microscopic Analysis in Archaeology

Research schedule Geology and Palaeontology of the Quaternary and Palaeoanthropology

- Crystallographic Characterization
- Prehistory of the Iberian Peninsula
- Prehistory of America
- Molecular Archaeology
- Experimental Archaeology
- Microscopic Analysis
- Zooarchaeology and Taphonomy
- Palaeoenvironmental Reconstruction
- Mammoth Palaeontology
- Ethnoarchaeology
- Systems of Graphic Documentation
- Archaeology of the Mind and Cognition
- The Archaeology of Symbolic Behaviour
- Spatial Archaeology  

Modes

- Professional (Intervention Archaeology)
- Research (Geology and Human Palaeontology)
- Research (Human Palaeoecology and Prehistory)

Els Màsters ofereixen itineraris específics que s'activaran en funció del nombre d'estudiants admesos.

Pre-registration

The preregistration period (1st phase) will begin on 1st March and end on 30th April.

If all the places available are not taken within this period, a new preregistration period will be opened (2nd phase) between 1st and 30th June.

The preregistration must be carried out on the Internet. The online form will become operative on the first day of the preregistration period. preregistration application.

For academic questions, please get in touch with the coordinator of the Masters. For administrative information, contact the secretariat of the faculty/school that teaches the Master's Degree; if you have been offered a place in the program on the strength of a foreign qualification, the Postgraduate and Doctoral School will inform you of the documents you will need.

Pre-registration on-line

Academic contact (coordinator)
Dr. Robert Sala Ramos  Department of History, History of Art and Geography (Faculty of Arts) web IPHES  977 559 730  robert.sala(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat

Administrative contact (secretary)
Secretariat of the Faculty of Arts  977 559 513 capsfll(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat

Postgraduate and Doctoral School
Edifici del Rectorat - Escala C, 1st floor - c/ Escorxador, s/n (Tarragona)   Tel: 977 558 478. Fax: 977 558 847   mastersoficials(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat  Office hours  Mornings: Mondays to Fridays, from 8.30 to 14.30 Afternoons: Wednesdays and Thursdays, from 15.30 to 18.00  July and August: Mondays to Fridays, from 8.00 to 15.00

Further information

• Schedule for procedures involving students
• Admission regulations
• Programme
• Educational Guide
• Faculty/school for registration
• Administrative procedure
• Pre-registration on-line
• Documentation required for preregistration 
• Requirements for foreign documents
• Frequently-asked questions
• Payment of fees from abroad