The excavation of Pintia focuses on the Vaccean necropolis. The Vaccean culture was an Iron Age people with Celtic links that settled in north-central Spain around the 5th century BC. The cemetery, located about 300 meters (984 feet) from the main settlement, was used between the 4th century BC and the 1st century.

The archaeological record of the Mariana Islands is exceptionally rich and it includes ancient indigenous Chamorro villages, habitation caves, rock art, agricultural sites, and other site locales. The area of the field school witnessed its first contact with Europeans when Ferdinand Magellan -- the famed Portuguese explorer -- encountered Guam in 1521 as he sailed around the world. The island of Guam was later colonized by the Spanish in the 1600s/1700s.
Students on the field school will receive intensive training in archaeological site excavation and artifact assemblage analysis and interpretation. Students will also learn about contemporary indigenous practices at ancient archaeological sites in the Mariana Islands.

This summer, discover an ancient South Pacific culture!  The Marquesas Archaeological Field School project, sponsored by AFAR (Andover Foundation for Archaeological Research), is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to learn archaeology and intimately experience an indigenous island village at the same time. It will be led by Dr. Barry Rolett of the University of Hawaii (leading his fourteenth archaeological expedition to the islands) and assistant director Emily Donaldson (BA Harvard '03 and MA University of Chicago '06).  The project consists of an archaeological dig (no experience necessary!), including post-excavation analysis, and the updating of a small, unique community museum which houses the artifacts we find. One of the priorities for this year will be to research and record the local oral and cultural history of these artifacts. In addition to archaeology and other hands-on research, lectures in Marquesan culture and language will be offered.  ALL ARE WELCOME! The deadlines for finalizing the project participants will be here before you know it, so SIGN UP NOW! Academic credit from the University of Hawaii can be arranged.

In 2010, the San Bernardino National Forest and California State University San Bernardino are offering the Fifth Applied Archaeology Field School. Our field school will provide you with all of the field training and experience you will need to get your first job as an archaeological technician with state or federal agencies, or with private cultural resource management firms. These are the same basic skills you will need in order to conduct research archaeology. This is a "hands-on" field school; you will learn by doing. We stress teamwork, cooperation, and accomplishment.

Fort Lewis College will again offer its six-week training course in field archaeology during the summer of 2010, under the direction of Mona Charles. Field work will be conducted at the Old Fort Lewis Campus near Durango, Colorado and at a prehistoric site along the Florida River, both in La Plata County. Intensive instruction in archaeological inventory, compass and tape mapping, Total Station mapping, remote sensing (electrical resistance and magnetometer), GPS and GIS, and limited excavations will be the focus of this six week field school. The field school is a required class in the Fort Lewis Anthropology Department's Cultural Resource Management certificate.
This is a wonderful opportunity for students to experience the rich prehistoric and historic heritage of Southwest Colorado while gaining knowledge and skills in field archaeology. A field trip is planned to visit archaeological ruins and rock art across the Four Corners and along the San Juan River in Southeast Utah.

The Lighthouse Maritime Archaeological Program will be conducting an underwater archaeological field school June 8-26, 2009. The field school will focus on the testing of an unidentified ballast pile to make a determination whether it represents the remains of the Confederate privateer Jefferson Davis, lost on the St. Augustine bar in August 1861 after the most successful cruise of the entire war.  Students will be instructed in scientific diving procedures, archaeological recording and excavation, the use of hydraulic probes and induction dredges, marine remote sensing survey and analysis (magnetometer & side scan sonar), artifact collection and documentation, and basic conservation laboratory methodology.

This 6-week course is directed towards professional Archaeologists and students of Archeology who would like to better understand the methods, materials and cultural processes that go into the creation of pottery and other ceramic wares. The class teaches basic ceramic crafting techniques within a scientific, historical, and theoretical context, and walks the students through the entire process of preparing, shaping, decorating and firing clay from a functional, aesthetic, chemical, and cultural perspective. The mix of hands-on practice, short lectures, and in-class discussion will culminate with a firing of the students' work in a traditional pit-kiln. Archaeologists and Archaeology students are given first preference for this class, but non-archaeologists are welcome pending availability.

The 2010 Archaeological Field School will focus on pre-contact and historic period studies at Harvard University’s Long Term Ecological Research program at the Harvard Forest in Petersham, MA. The Harvard Forest consists of over 3000 acres of land, and is one of the oldest and most extensively studied forest landscapes in North America. The goal of the field school is to apply archaeological methodologies to research questions concerning pre-contact and historic period land use and forest ecology.

The Montpelier Archaeology Field School, set on the lifelong home of James Madison, fourth president of the United States and "Father of the Constitution," will be held in two sessions between the dates of May 17 to July 23, 2010. Accredited by James Madison University (VA) and SUNY Plattsburgh (NY), the 2010 field schools and programs will involve intensive archaeological investigation of the "Stable Quarter," or the area between the modern Visitors Center and the southern edge of the formal yard. Previous surveys have revealed work yards and middens associated with slave quarters, and what may be the foundation to the stable.

We offer professional training in field research methods at several eastern Wyoming locations ... rapid reconnaissance of new archaeological areas, systematic surface survey and site recording, initial site testing and mapping, and precise excavation of stratified geological/cultural deposits. Field School graduates are qualified for entry-level professional employment on Research and CRM crews. The first 2 Field School sessions take place at the High Plains Archaeology project in southeast Wyoming, working the pine breaks along Lodgepole Creek