Doing a forensic archaeology masters without archaeology experience

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I’m currently doing biomedical science in uni but I’ve always been interested in forensics. I love learning about the skeleton and bones and recently discovered a few masters courses in forensic archaeology and anthropology that sounds right up my street. However with my science background I’m not sure if I would struggle a lot with learning archaeology for the first time? I imagine students that did archaeology at undergrad would have a lot of practical experience. Is this something I should be worried about or will I be taught it all from scratch?

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Sandtrooper

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I’m currently doing biomedical science in uni but I’ve always been interested in forensics. I love learning about the skeleton and bones and recently discovered a few masters courses in forensic archaeology and anthropology that sounds right up my street. However with my science background I’m not sure if I would struggle a lot with learning archaeology for the first time? I imagine students that did archaeology at undergrad would have a lot of practical experience. Is this something I should be worried about or will I be taught it all from scratch?

You should email the departments you are interested in applying to directly, but honestly, I don't think you'd have too much of an issue. You'd have to learn some theories and do a decent amount of background reading, but there are a lot of people who transfer across to archaeology as a postgraduate from a huge variety of backgrounds.

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thesnowbones

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I did an MA in Classical Archaeology, and did Forensic Archaeology as a module. There were lots of people who had never done archaeology before on the course, and they did not find it an issue. They were all doing very different degrees too - varying from osteology, bioarchaeology, etc. Hope that helps x

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