Archaeology

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Arizona State University’s archaeology graduate program has consistently been considered one of the top in the nation— if not the world. Besides attracting some of the most highly sought-after faculty, the School of Human Evolution and Social Change has been the top choice of students who we believe will be the future leaders in the field. Our students are extremely successful in publishing peer-reviewed articles, obtaining external research funding, and developing strong teaching records. ASU students have presented papers at the annual Society for American Archaeology (SAA) meetings every year for the past 15 years, and SAA has selected ASU students for the prestigious Best Dissertation award five times—more than twice the number of any other university.

Today, archaeology at ASU is vibrantly diverse, with more than twenty archaeology and bioarchaeology faculty, and an impressive number of funded research projects and areas of specialization. Known worldwide for its preeminence in Mesoamerican and American Southwest archaeology, the program continues to expand in these regions while offering new and exciting research opportunities throughout the world, from Teotihuacan
to Alaska, from the Eastern Woodlands to the Andes, the Mediterranean and Africa.

Through large-scale funded projects, the school is establishing itself as a leader in integrated interdisciplinary research and the use of 3D and agent-based modeling, powerful integrative databases, GIS, and simulation technologies that allow for unprecedented levels of transdisciplinary conceptualization and analysis of problems involving change and transformation.