The Department of Archaeology of Jilin University was founded in 1987, with two majors: archaeology and museology. Among them, the archaeology specialty was founded in 1972, and the museum specialty was founded in 1985. The department has master's and doctoral programs in archaeology and museum science. Professional teachers ***2 1, including 5 professors (including 3 doctoral supervisors), 8 associate professors and 8 lecturers. Archaeology and Museology are disciplines that require strong professional basic theory, basic knowledge and professional practice. Among them, archaeology has always paid attention to the field archaeological practice teaching and archaeological research in North China, Northeast China and Northeast China, which has won high praise at home and has had many exchanges and cooperation with domestic and foreign countries, which has had a positive impact.

The Department of Archaeology of Jilin University (later renamed Archaeology and Museology) was founded in 1950s. At that time, Mr. Yu, a famous archaeologist, was the leader of the discipline, and a research room for ancient Chinese characters was set up in the history department to recruit graduate students. 1972, the archaeology major of Jilin University was established, with Mr. Zhang Zhongpei as the head of the major. Undergraduate enrollment begins 1973. During the period of 1987, the major of archaeology and museology was separated from the history department, and an independent archaeology department was established, with Mr. Lin _ as the head of the department. In 2000, the frontier archaeological research center of this discipline was approved as the key research base of humanities and social sciences of the Ministry of Education, with Professor Hong Chu as the director of the center. The discipline of archaeology and museology was the first batch of doctoral degree authorization points awarded by the State Council Academic Degrees Committee in 198 1. In 2000, it was awarded the post-doctoral research station of history, and in the same year it was included in the "2 1 1 project" national key discipline construction project during the tenth five-year plan period. In 2005, the "Innovation Base of Chinese Frontier History and Geography" based on this discipline was identified as the national "985 Project" philosophy and social science innovation base. After several generations and years of construction, the discipline has now formed a high-level faculty composed of more than 20 professors, associate professors and young doctors, and its comprehensive research strength in ancient Chinese culture, human beings and the environment is in a leading position in China.