Department of Archaeology
The Department is housed in two buildings Northgate House and West Court. Both buildings are located in the West Street area, close to other central University facilities and central Sheffield.
- Northgate House has a large, well-equipped lecture theatre and a seminar room, and contains a complex of laboratory facilities, offices, study, photographic and storage rooms, and is home to the Departmental library.
- West Court contains further offices, research accommodation and work space, and is the administrative focus of the Graduate School.
IT facilities
The Department has IT facilities for postgraduate students in both Northgate House and West Court.
In addition, all students can use the University's IT facilities, which include the St George's Complex on Mappin Street and the Information Commons.
Libraries
Departmental library
Based in Northgate House, the library includes:
- a range of specialist books and journals frequently needed by staff and students
- reference copies of PhD thesis, MPhil and MA dissertations
- the Higgs Collection which consists of about 4,000 off-prints which focus on man-animal relationships and faunal studies
- the Waechter Collection including a similar number of off-prints which are concerned mainly with Palaeolithic archaeology and hunter-gatherer communities.
University library
The University library has been collecting books, journals and other materials for over 100 years. There are five libraries across the Campus, including the Information Commons which is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year.
Research facilities
The Department is well equipped with specialised research facilities, which include:
- Environmental Laboratories
- Bioarchaeology Wet Preparation Laboratory
- Osteology Laboratories
- Materials Science Metals and Glass Laboratory
- Materials Sciences Microscope Laboratory
- Furnace room
- Materials Science Ceramics and Lithics Laborator
- Dendrochronology Laboratory
- Zooarchaeology Laboratory
Access to Other University research facilities
The Department has an atomic absorption spectroscopy system at the Department of Geography and has the use of Scanning Electron Microscopes (housed in the Sorby Centre) and of ICP, ICP-MS, XRF and XRD and EPMA facilities in the Earth Sciences department.
Close to the Department are the Medical School, which houses an excellent specialist library for forensic medicine and pathology.