29th June 2010, 10:28 AM
Well the Edinburgh department is in decline, and probably will cease to exist as an independent department within 5 years. The most likely situation is it being swallowed by History & Classics, and archaeology courses taken as honours options (wheels are turning in this respect, moved into the School of History & Classics from Arts, Culture and Environment; lost it's environmental archaeologist to Geosciences, and is now moving out of it's great building into a one it will share with History and Classics).