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Archaeology Field School Location and Dates
Application Deadline
2010-05-14
Start Date
2010-06-02
End Date
2010-06-30
Archaeology Field School Location
Quarry Creek Site, Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas
Archaeology Field School Tuition and Credits
Sponsoring College/Institution
Academic Credit
4 credit hours
Archaeology Field School Tuition
The tuition and fees for the field school are $825 for resident undergraduates, $2,252 for non-resident undergraduates, $1,120 for resident graduates, and $2,576 for non-resident graduates.
Archaeology Field School Room and Board
Students will be housed Sunday evenings through Friday afternoon at Muncie Elementary School, Leavenworth, KS. There is a fee of $400 to cover room, board, and laboratory expenses.
Archaeology Field School Description
The Quarry Creek Site
The site is named for the small tributary of the Missouri River on which it is located. Its strategic placement allowed exploitation of varied resources from woodland, prairie, and riverine habitats from a permanent base camp ca. AD 250-400. Though it was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, no excavations were done there until 1991 when the KAFS exposed 33m2 of its estimated 8,400m2 extent. Test units and a 15m long trench were dug, the latter through a midden mound, to determine the depth and area of cultural deposits. Remote sensing (magnetometry) survey identified several anomalies indicative of hearths and pit features. Subsequent excavation revealed six trash filled storage pits. These and the middens above them yielded a wealth of cultural material, including pottery, chipped stone tools (dart points, preforms, knives, scrapers, drills, and blades), ground stone tools (manos, nutting stones, hammer stones and celts), bone tools (antler billets and pressure flakers, awls, points, and punches), a miniature copper celt and a ceramic pipe fragment.
Archaeological Field Techniques Participants in the KAFS-2010 will receive instruction in a variety of archaeological and ancillary field techniques, including:
- Test excavation (including unit placement, set-up, screening, and documentation such as profiling, unit/level form completion, plan mapping, photography, etc.)
- Use of an Electronic Distance Measure (EDM; or “laser transit”) for site mapping
- Use of a Global Positioning Receiver (GPR)
- Completion of site registration forms
- Interpretation of U.S.G.S. topographic quadrangle maps
- Demonstration of geoarchaeological techniques, such as extraction of soil cores, magnetic sampling, and interpretation of the soil/sediment context of the site
- Lectures in regional prehistory, field methods, remote sensing, and Geographic Information Science.
- Preliminary laboratory processing of recovered cultural material, including artifact typology, functional analysis, faunal identification, etc.
- Field trips to other sites in the area.
Accommodations Participants in the field school course will be housed in Muncie School in Leavenworth about six miles from the site. This facility has been used during previous field schools and provides comfortable quarters for sleeping, dining, laboratory work, and lectures. It has classrooms that will serve as sleeping areas for men and women, separate restrooms with showers, a fully equipped institutional kitchen, and a basketball gym. A cook will be hired to prepare meals; students will be rotated through Kitchen Patrol (KP). Students are expected to share quarters and meals on weekdays during each week of the field school. Transportation Students are responsible for transportation to and from the field school quarters each week. For those who do not have a vehicle for this purpose, other arrangements will be made. Field School Costs The tuition and fees for the field school are $825 for resident undergraduates, $2,252 for non-resident undergraduates, $1,120 for resident graduates, and $2,576 for non-resident graduates. There is also a fee of $400 to cover room, board, and laboratory expenses. Application Before enrolling in the course, students must apply directly to the Instructor. Applications can be obtained online (see website reference above) or from the instructor. For application forms or other information, contact Dr. Brad Logan (phone: 785-532-2419; email: blogan@ksu.edu). Dept. of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work
Kansas State University
204 Waters Hall
Manhattan, KS 66506
Archaeology Field School Additional Information
Time Period
Middle Woodland (AD 1-600)
What is the daily schedule for the field school
June 2-30
Number of years this Archaeology Field School has been in operation
periodically through the University of Kansas and Kansas State University since 1969
Directors and Instructors
Dr. Brad Logan
On rain days will there be lab work?
Yes
Will there be additional organized activities?
Tours to sites in the vicinity
Archaeology Field School Contact Information and Website
Field School Website:
http://ksuanth.weebly.com/fieldschool2010.html
Field School Contact Information
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Brad Logan, Ph.D.
Research Associate Professor
Dept. of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work
204 Waters Hall
Kansas State University
Manhattan, KS 66506
(785) 532-2419 (office)
(785) 532-6978 (Fax)
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