Haha I will probably go full archaeology geek in this post, I apologize in advance,
Well yes, the periods do change over areas, e.g. in Greece there are litterature as far back as 750 BC (Homer's Illiad and Odyssey), where as in Scandinavian we don't have any written texts before ca. 1000 AD, which should give an indication of how different the societies were back then in the different areas. - When I was in Ukraine, I was excavating a hellenistic 'camp' - we don't have this period in Scandinavia, here the time period would be called pre-roman Iron Age.
The hellenistic period is a bit out of my speciality (since like I wrote, it is not a period we have in Scandinavia), but it is dated to around 330-30 BC, and the findings are also very different from what we find in prehistory archaeology in Denmark.
When I got to Ukraine we had to continue on an excavation that had started the season before, where they had found evidence of a 'camp', which showed itself as a sort of house, but the walls were only 10-30cm tall; and it is believed that they had a sort of tent on top of it. - so obviously we found a lot of stone walls, besides this we found 4 skeletons: 1 of a child, 2 men and 1 unknown. One of the male skeletons were found under a broken wall, where the skull was smashed with a rock and a big (entrance) stone was pushed over him (our specialist said that this happened around the time of death, and might even have been the cause of death). We found a few arrowheads, one right next to/inside the unknown skeleton, and another next to the skull of the child. Besides the (a bit grusome) story with the skeletons, which has been interpreted as an attack on the family/people living there, we found A LOT of ceramics. The ceramics is what we used to date the site. (it gets a lot geeky if I would have to explain it)
Before working on the big excavation we had to do a practice excavation, where we weren't actually supposed to find anything, but it was more to practice the digging, measuring and drawing. - here we happened to find a Bronze Age site, with a small stone structure and again a lot of ceramics. - How I understood it, Ukraine didn't spend a lot of money on archaeology (this was in 2010), I don't know if this has changed since the conflict, but I could imagine that it is not their biggest priority atm. - We did of course uphold the law, that says that you can't bring archaeological heritage out of the country.
Heritage Management is really exciting, and I'm happy to have chosen it, it is much more related to the job market in Denmark, and we have a lot of actual professionals giving lectures.
It is a very interdisciplinary program; we had a course in the museum law, another taught us anthropological, museum, historical and archaeological methods such as archival work and interviews. - we also had more theoretical courses in e.g. the concept of sustainability (social, environmental and economic), also concepts of tangible/intangible and natural/cultural heritage. - atm we have a course in 'heritage project management' and in 'production and communication of heritage'. So it is a widespread program
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeJxPP6-ois (this is my teacher explaining about the program)
Wow that was a long post... sorry
but I hoped I answered your questions. Otherwise please ask again or if you have any more questions, I'll be happy to answer them
