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Archaeology Field Schools
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Australia - Archaeological Field Experience!
This three week intensive applied heritage management fieldschool is based on the south-coast of Western Australia. Experience the amazing coastline, islands, and outback woodland while learning skills in archaeological survey, mapping, excavation, GPS navigation and recording, stone artefact analysis, community engagement, and land care.
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Australia - Ethnoarchaeology in Aboriginal Australia Field School
This topic will teach students how to undertake ethical and culturally sensitive ethnoarchaeological research. Activities may include rock art recording, site recording, artefact recording, collecting oral histories, and ethical interactions with Indigenous groups.
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Canada - Yukon College Field School in Subarctic Archaeology and Ethnography
Application Deadline: 2010-04-29
In collaboration with the White River First Nation of Beaver Creek, Yukon, and the Village Councils of Northway, Tetlin, and Tanacross, Alaska, Yukon College offers an exciting and unique opportunity to participate in ethnographic and archaeological research in the Upper Tanana River watershed, location of southeastern Beringia and the region containing some of the oldest human occupation sites in the Americas. During summer 2010, continuing excavation at the Little John site will focus on recovery of the 12 - 14,000-year-old Pleistocene levels with faunal remains from the site, further investigations of Holocene occupations, and documentation of contemporary and traditional land use, language, and culture. This project involves students and local First Nation youth and elders in integrated investigations of the region's history, language, and culture.
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 Central America - Mexico - Ethnohistorical Archaeology Travel/Study Program
The object of this interdisciplinary project is to introduce innovative methods of integrating archaeological research with art history, ethnohistory, and ethnography, in an intensive Travel Study program spanning from bustling Mexico City to the scenic valleys, highlands, and coasts of Oaxaca. Through daily traveling and hiking, students will learn about the millennial indigenous cultures, the impact of European colonialism, and the contemporary lifestyles and issues, by the active exploration of archaeological and historical sites, museum collections, and indigenous communities. These excursions will be integrated with classroom courses and on-site lectures delivered by experts on ethnohistorical documents, archaeological field and lab methods, and ethnographic research. Note that this Travel Study program does not involve active participation in an archaeological dig.
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Central America - Mexico - MesoAmerican Ethnoecology
2010-05-17
ANT 495 MesoAmerican Ethnoecology (3)
This is a travel course that includes one on-campus orientation meeting and travel to Tapachula, Mexico for field studies. Learn how families use plants in their environment for food, medicine, ritual and material culture. Students may enroll only with the instructor's consent. For further information, contact the instructor, Dr. Janine Gasco, at jgasco@csudh.edu/310-243-3506.
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 Europe - Macedonia - Workshop for Restoration and Documentation of Roman Pottery
The Workshop for Restoration and Documentation of Roman Pottery will take place at the archaeological site of Stobi (the capital city of Macedonia Secunda) and will guide the students through the history of Roman pottery, its production and consequent stages of archaeological conservation, documentation, study, and restoration. Both the theoretical and practical courses will be based on Roman and Late Roman pottery found in Stobi. Besides the practical work, the educational course and the excursions (to St.Archangel Michael Monastery (10th century), the old towns of Prilep and Bitola, the archaeological site of Heraclea Lyncestis, Ohrid and Ohrid lake (UNESCO World Heritage Site), participants will visit a contemporary pottery workshop. 6 academic credits are sponsored by New Bulgarian University upon students' request.
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Europe - Spain - DEIA Archaeological and Anthropological Research Centre-Summer Workshops
Application Deadline: 2010-05-15
In a beautiful mountain village with access to the sea, participants will learn about the prehistory and history of the island of Mallorca and the relationship of the past to the present and future. Studying with specialists in each field,you will plan and carry out participant observation, collecting stories and writing ethnography.There will be visits to archaeological sites, other villages,towns and markets.
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 Middle East - Egypt - Ceramic Analysis in Fayum Project
Fed by a branch of the Nile, the Fayum is a fertile depression with a lake at its northern edge and long history of human occupation. UCLA has been investigating the development of agriculture in this area from the Neolithic to Graeco-Roman times. In this program, students will get training in the analysis of ceramics, ranging from surface survey to geo-archaeological techniques to ethno-archaeology. These will include the illustration, cataloguing and systematic storage of pottery. The Fayum Field School comprises 10 weeks of training of which the students are five weeks in the field. A two week period of independent preparation is followed by a training which combines American students and Egyptian archaeologists employed by the Supreme Council of Antiquities, making cultural exchange an integral part of the program.
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 US - Arizona - Migrant Material Culture Project - Ethnoarchaeology of Undocumented Migration
Since the mid-1990’s, thousands of undocumented migrants from Mexico and beyond have been entering the U.S. through the harsh Sonora Desert of Arizona on foot. Migrants carry backpacks loaded with food, clothing and provisions and often walk for days to reach places such as Tucson and Phoenix. Along the way people will eat, sleep, and discard artifacts at temporary migrant campsites known as “lay-up” sites. The Migrant Material Culture Project studies lay-up sites using traditional archaeological methods along with ethnography to better understand the complex social, political, economic, and environmental issues currently surrounding modern undocumented migration into the United States.
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 US - Texas - Field Methods in Rock Art
Application Deadline: 2010-03-31
Earn three to six hours of undergraduate or three hours of graduate credit through Texas State University while studying rock art that has been described by Dr. Jean Clottes as "...second to none and ranks among the top bodies of rock art anywhere in the world."
Taught by Dr. Carolyn E. Boyd, author of Rock Art of the Lower Pecos, and Elton R. Prewitt, respected Texas archeologist, this three-week course provides hands-on training in rock art and recording techniques and many other aspects of archeological field work.
Please contact Angel Johnson at programs@shumla.org for more info, or visit our website: www.shumla.org
You will be studying in the Lower Pecos Canyonlands of Texas, an area that has been recognized by world rock-art experts as containing some of the most spectacular imagery in the world.
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 US/Pacific - Moku`ula
2010-04-01
The scared and political center of Moku`ula is the most important site on Maui - and arguably in all of Hawaii. A man-made island, Moku`ula sits in the center of what was once a 17+ acre wetland known as Loko Mokuhinia.
Home to Maui royalty for over 400 years, the site was usurped by Hawaii Island chief, Kamehameha the Great after his successful campaign to unite the Hawaiian Islands. The site is also home to the Akua Mo`o, Kihawahine. Half-woman, half-dragon, Kihawahine lives in a grotto beneath Moku`ula. One of the most powerful deities in the Hawaiian pantheon, Kihawahine is associated with fresh water springs.
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