FSU Announces an Archaeological Field School at Letchworth Mounds

Summer B Term, (May 12 through June 20, 2004)

A six-week Florida State University (FSU) archeological field school at the Letchworth Mounds site, will introduce students to basic field and lab methods in archeology, including survey, mapping, excavation, and preliminary analysis of artifacts. The project also will improve current knowledge of the prehistory of Northwest Florida and the Letchworth Mound Complex and aid in interpretation of this publicly-owned site.

Other Field School Opportunities

• FIELD SCHOOL IN HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY, ST GEORGE, BERMUDA, 10-31 July 2004
  Full details and application forms are online. Enquiries should be sent to Julie Shackleford or Dan Hicks.
• Summer field training in methods of data collection in cultural anthropology: Bolivia and Zambia
  Full details and application forms are online. Enquiries should be sent to Richard Godoy. Through a new training grant to Brandeis University, the Program of Cultural Anthropology of the National Science Foundation offers a unique training opportunity in methods of data collection for PhD students in cultural anthropology at US universities. Under the leadership of Ricardo Godoy(Brandeis) and Lisa Cliggett (Kentucky), and with the support of other faculty, training will take place at two long-term research sites, one in the tropical rain forest of Bolivia and one in Zambia.
• NEW PHILADELPHIA ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH PROJECT: FIELDSCHOOL IN ARCHAEOLOGY AND LABORATORY TECHNIQUES, May 25, 2004 to July 30, 2004. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program.
  APPLICATION DEADLINE: For Best Consideration -- March 29, 2004Dr. Tina L. Thurston, SUNY-Buffalo, is once more offering a 6-credit field school in northern Denmark, from July 3 - August 6, focusing on the Iron Age, Viking Age and Early Medieval periods. Full information on the project, program and application materials can be found either at the AIA fieldwork website:http://www.archaeological.org/webinfo.php?page=10015 Or directly at Dr. Thurston's website:http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~tt27/ThyFrameset.html
• Dr. Dr. Dale A. Olsen, Professor of Ethnomusicology at FSU, and Director of FSU's International Summer Program in Vietnam would like to invite you to consider studying in Vietnam for 6 weeks from May 7 through June 18, 2004. For more information you can visit the following website: http://www.international.fsu.edu/Types/College/HoChiMinh.htm or call 1-800-374-8581 or locally 850-644-3272.
• Urban African American Archaeology Fieldschool, University of South Carolina, Columbia SC
  Students participate in archaeological field research at a 19th century urban property in Columbia, South Carolina, called the Seibels House. We will uncover the information about African American laborers and the influential Euro-American residents of the household who owned or employed the laborers . Participants will join a team of field workers who will grapple with the challenges of implementing various phases of a formal archaeological research design. Our research team will complete a number of tasks, each of which will help students develop specific skills: conducting a formal survey; constructing site maps; digging shovel test probes; excavating a brick kitchen; recovering artifacts; conducting soil flotation; recording data. Students will learn how to identify and process artifacts during lab work. We will also explore archival, remote sensing, and other forms of evidence about the history of the site and past residents. Field trips to Columbia and Charleston sites are also a part of the learning experience.
  For more information please visit our website: http://www.cla.sc.edu/ANTH/Faculty/Weik/Seibels.htm
• Please visit www.aegeaninstitute.org for details on 2004 summer training courses. We have also included another underwater site, what looks like a very large stone wall (fish weir, bridge?) between Paros, Saliagos and Antiparos.
• Field School in Underwater Archaeology: 10,000 Years Beneath New York Harbor and the Hudson River Stony Brook University, July 12 - August 20, 2004
  The Department of Anthropology at Stony Brook University is pleased to announce its second annual field school in underwater archaeology. The six-week program will give students the opportunity to work on underwater sites in the New York metro area. Field work will focus on the search for, and investigation of, submerged prehistoric Native American sites beneath the Hudson River and Outer New York Harbor. Participants will be trained in archaeological survey and excavation techniques, including remote sensing, underwater excavation and artifact recovery methods, mapping, and site interpretation. Daily field work will be supplemented by evening lectures and lab activities.
  The field school is open to advanced undergraduate and graduate students. For more information and an application form, please contact Daria Merwin:phone 631-632-7618, fax 631-632-9165, email Daria.Merwin@stonybrook.edu Applications are due on or before April 10, 2004
• The University of West Florida will conduct two field school projects this summer in Northwest Florida. The first is the final field season at the Presidio Isla de Santa Rosa (1722-1752) located on Santa Rosa Island in Pensacola . There are also opportunities to participate in a survey and testing project near Panama City, Florida, and a combined underwater and terrestrial field school near Panama City and in Pensacola. Details of each field school project, including applications, and more information on our research is located at http://uwf.edu/anthropology/schools/fieldschools.cfm
  For more information contact Norma Harris or Judy Bense.
• Yukon College is accepting registrations for Field Methods in Subarctic Archaeology and Ethnology (ANTH 225), which provides students with an introduction to contemporary archaeological and ethnographic field methods in the Canadian north. Principal excavations will be at the KdVo-6 site, a multi-component site with occupations from the historic period to the late pleistocene/early holocene Nenana complex culture. Exceptional organic preservation of pleistocene fauna is also found in the area. Principal ethnographic work will continue place names and oral history documentation as well as a focus on the aboriginal whitefish subsistence fishery.
  Deadline for registration is 12 May 2004. More information can be found at the following web address: http://www.yukoncollege.yk.ca/arts/courses/anth225.shtml or by contacting the instructor, Norman Alexander Easton.