I am interested in both behavioral neuroscience and archaeology, and would like to concentrate on bioarchaeology or neuroscience in graduate school. However, I can’t decide what is best for me. My major is in behavioral neuroscience and my minor is in bioarchaeology, but I’m thinking about going to archaeology school later. What should I do?
If you are at a school that has a big enough concentration in bioarchaeology to have a minor in it, then that means there are probably professors in that field there who might even take on doctoral students. I would ask one of those professors directly whether the coursework in a behavioral neuroscience major + the bioarch minor would be enough for you to do graduate work in bioarch.
From a quick perusal of one or two doctoral programs in bioarchaeology, it’s a sub-field of anthropology, and you’ll have to be admitted into an anthropology department. So if you want to get in, you should probably have significant coursework in anthropology, too - enough to lay a foundation for theoretical and applied work in a subfield of that.
There’s a professor at Vanderbilt’s bioarch program, [Tiffany Tung](http://www.vanderbilt.edu/anthro/tung/?page_id=19) who says on her webpage that she welcomes emails from undergraduates who wish to specialize in bioarchaeology. So she might be a connection to chat with. Most of her graduate students seemed to have been anthropology majors as undergraduates.