On the west side a temple for the emperor cult was constructed, and in the east wing a colonnade of 86m long, and taking advantage of the unevenness of the ground, a nymphaeum and another portico oriented to the outside were placed under the colonnade. Afternoon lectures will cover the theoretical issues concerning archaeological theory and methods; the various types of archaeological evidence with a focus on the material from Despotiko; ancient religious practices and rituals; the birth and development of Greek sanctuaries and, in particular, those in the Cyclades. The objects found at this site are in the museum of Cuenca, including the treasure of Valeria consisting of silver coins dating from the period after theSecond Punic War in about 185 BC. Understanding the period in time immediately preceding and encompassing the first steps in this transition, the Epipalaeolithic period, is crucial; however, the Epipalaeolithic period in central, FIELD SCHOOL DIRECTOR: Prof. Douglas Baird, Department of Archaeology, University of Liverpool, UK (, Enrollment Status: Open, Payment deadline: April 15, 2022, Prof. Douglas Baird, Dept. See below for 2023 tuition rates and fees as well as information on housing. This project focuses on examining how the Casma in the Nepea valley responded during and after Chim conquest and how these responses allowed them to persist. ExternalUndergraduate Application Campus This project also offers the opportunity to reflect on the nature of historical colonialism in Maryland and its continuing effects in todays world. Since 1629, the Islands have been episodically under the administration of England, Spain, English & French privateers, and Colombia; and served time as a base for the privateer Henry Morgan in the late 1600s and as a residence of Pablo Escobar in the 1980s. Either full payment or a 30% deposit will secure your spot in the program. Deadline: Contact the program for updated information. While ossuary excavation began in summer 2018, much work remains, especially considering that we have located another, earlier, ossuary from the same medieval Lost Church. Additional transcripts may be ordered at any time through the National Student Clearinghouse: http://bit.ly/2hvurkl. Students should make their travel arrangements accordingly. The Roman Villa and Settlement Excavation offers a very extensive approach to the anthropology and archaeology of the Roman frontier environments,respectively the northern Dacian Provinces (i.e. All three were adult men, and only one died at an old age. This field school will have a strong focus on cultural resource management, tribal-led research, and Indigenous archaeology. Project website: https://www.archeodig.com/pdm-ac.html and click here for a brochure, For an application form/expression of interest, click here: https://www.archeodig.com/forms/Application_activ_aca.pdf. January 28, 2022 Eileen Barany Class Description Join Professor Mark Schurr this summer on a 3 week dig learning about the human past! American School of Classical Studies at Athens When these patterns are reconstructed at high spatio-temporal resolution across the Plain, simulating the socio-ecological dynamics will be possible. 4 week session: May 29 to June 24, 2023 *RBAS operates in Belize under a permit issued from the Institute of Archaeology to Dr. Fred Valdez, Director of the Programme for Belize Archaeological Project (PfBAP). Students housed on campus may also enroll in one of several meal plan options available on SMCMs campus. Students will be required to keep a journal of their field, lab, and seminar work. Itoffers 3-week intensivesummer programs,which are open to students of Classics, Philosophy, History, and related disciplines, as well as adult learners with an interest in Ancient Greek culture. 325 B.C.E. Initial radiocarbon dating ofcores at these features suggests the site was used over a span of 5000 years. Archaeological Field School in the Cape Fear Region. In addition, the Field School will include field trips and weekly seminars exploring recent contributions of historical archaeology to colonial history, new field recording and interpretation methods, and a survey of the recent literature in the discipline. Archaeology Field School - The Umbra Institute - Study Abroad in Italy Inside and within the palisade fence there is a settlement with traces of burnt offerings cereal, bones and flint tools. Experience Required:No experience required. a where more than 500 tumuli have been discovered, dated from the 11th to 2nd century BC. Calendars. PROGRAM DESCRIPTION Incoronata is located in southern Italy, near the coast of the Gulf of Taranto (the arch of the boot), in todays Basilicata region. As other transportation routes developed, including roads, canals, and railroads, Newport was left behind and eventually abandoned. Discovered in 1977-8 they made a worldwide sensation. The first and second weeks will be spent in the cities of Santarm and Faro, respectively, where students will attend lectures about archaeology and history of the regions, as well as attend labs to learn and practice various bioarchaeology field and lab techniques, as well as to familiarize themselves with various types of archaeological materials they will encounter. Undergraduates, graduate students, and adults of all ages are welcome! Our current working hypothesis is that Vasagrd was established by a group of early farmers who constructed a fenced stronghold with one public building, possibly a temple. For the last 10 years, we have been excavating a unique complex of 4 major buildings: two commercial buildings, one consisting of 12 shops, the other of 10 shops, one building with workshops and one complex of 13 housing units. The two roads and the store/post office location allow us to link historic descriptions of the town to the modern landscape. Course fees include tuition and self-catering accommodation and we also provide free local transportation. This project provides a rare opportunity for students to work with survivors in synergistic investigations of the past and its meaning in the present at a National Historic Landmark. PROGRAM DESCRIPTION Prane Siddi, or the Siddi Plateau, is a high basaltic plateau located in the south-central part of the island of Sardinia (Italy), near the modern town of Siddi. 4 credits @ $498.50 per credit = $1,994.00. As an organisation which places public and student involvement as a top priority, Archeodig seeks student volunteerswho wish to develop a foundational knowledge of field archaeology and contribute to the many interesting and ongoing research questions posed by the site of Poggio del Molino. There are no prerequisites for the field school, and students from any discipline will be considered for the program. Archaeology Section (5 Weeks): This section will consist of fieldwork and material analysis, whereby participants will spend half of the fieldwork excavating the adobe platform and the other half on excavating the cemetery. Buildings on campus include the lodge, cabins, 10 Navajo-style hogans, two learning centers, and the Gates Archaeology Laboratory (the Gates Building), which houses classrooms, libraries, offices, and a material culture laboratory. The field school will take place in scenic Pend Oreille County, northeastern Washington state, near the town of Newport, Washington. After a major fire in the 3rd century AD, which according to the current state of knowledge cannot be associated with an act of war, a phase of change begins. The Department of Anthropology currently runs a summer archaeological field school in Western Massachusetts: Information for Summer 2022 ( View Flyer Here) ANTHRO 588: FIELD AND LABORATORY METHODS IN BIOARCHAEOLOGY AND FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY May 19 - July 1, 2022 ( Application Deadline to Apply is May 1, 2022) Graduate students should contact Director of Research and Collections Travis Parno (travis.parno@maryland.gov) to discuss accreditation options. Field School Director: Scott Simmons Tel. For those who are not familiar with this area, the Eastern Pequot are cousins of the Mashantucket (Western) Pequot, and their respective reservation boundaries sit less than a mile apart. The ultimate goal of this project, in fact, is to increase understanding of the overall urban setting of Pompeii and its genesis, with a special focus on the contribution of the Samnite people to the urban development of the ancient city and the impact that the Roman conquest had on the architectural forms of its main monuments. At the same time, especially in the 4th century, numerous renovations in private buildings were carried out, and with the construction of an extra muros church a church outside of the town walls at the same time, the strong influence of the Christian religion is now tangible. Hawai'i Indigenous Archaeology Field School 2023 Students will stay in a field house located in the hospitable town of Nepea. FIELD SCHOOL DIRECTOR: Prof. Douglas Baird, Department of Archaeology, University of Liverpool, UK (dbaird@liverpool.ac.uk), Course Dates:Session I: June 11- July 11, 2023, Session II: July 12- August 12, 2023, Project video link here Project website link here. 2000 studentsfromover 60 countries*andinvolved a great number of academic and research institutions, museums, and heritage specialists from Bulgaria, the Republic of NorthMacedonia, USA, Canada, UK, Germany, Belgium, Greece, France, Montenegro and Japan. Thus, as an economic supplement, the London-based directors of the Providence Island Company approved the conduct of buccaneering against Spanish ships and mainland settlements. This raw material comes from the wider area of the town and after sorting and rough processing it was then used for trading. It is one of the earliest Greek colonies in this area, founded in 655/54 B.C. A Companion to Ancient Macedonia. Dates: June 5 to June 30, 2023 Enrollment status: Open, Payment deadline: April 24, 2023, FIELD SCHOOL DIRECTORS Each days activities can look different, and may change depending on the evolving direction of the research. The site is distributed across a vast plateau overlooking the valley where the river Basento flows. The field school is bound by three prevailing themes: 1) emphasizing decolonized approaches to archaeological method and theory that promote ethical collaboration with descendant communities; 2) exploring questions about historical ecology, first foods, diet, health, food sovereignty, and family decision making and cooperation through an archaeological understanding of earth oven technologies and traditions, landscape use and Traditional Ecological Knowledge; and 3) training students in CRM policies and practice, which is not only necessary for a career in archaeology in countries like the US, but is directly applicable to other heritage and resource management professions, both nationally and internationally. Located in the heart of the Carpathians and founded in the 12th century by Central European colonists (generally referred to as Saxons) invited by the Hungarian king Gza II, Braov (called Kronstadt/Corona in medieval times); Transylvania was, during the Middle Ages, a crossroads for travellers, merchants and diplomats from central Europe and the Middle East, where communities of German, Romanian, Hungarian and Jewish ancestry coexisted. The torch is an attribute of the goddess Ceres (Greek Demeter), related to the nine days she was given, to search the underworld for her daughter Proserpina (Greek Persephone), where Pluton (Greek Hades) had taken her. Students who have participated in the Archaeology Field School are also invited to apply for competitive internships (including paid internships). Session 1: May 9th - June 2nd 2023. For those who have previously attended the Montpelier Field School and want to apply for year-long internships, please email us at dig@montpelier.org for details. Stipend amounts will be determined by VPUE and will be communicated to students when they are acceptedto the field project. Dr. Kreimir Filipec,Professor and Director of at the Department of Medieval Archaeology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb (Croatia) (kfilipec@ffzg.hr), Ms. Jana krgulja, Assistant Professor at the Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb (Croatia) (jana.skrgulja@gmail.com, jskrgulj@ffzg.hr), [Outdated information; awaiting 2023 update] Date: July 3 to August 5, 2022. The UNB Bioarchaeology Field School embraces diversity in its participants. By the time Captain Cook reached these shores in 1775, Marquesan chiefdoms were distinguished by their monumental architecture and a religious system in which important ceremonies demanded human sacrifices. ARCH 372 and ARCH 434 or equivalent, or permission of instructor. Send a one-page cover letter that outlines your interest in archaeology and a CV or resume that contains the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of three references. Michael Thorsen, BARC-Bornholm Museum, Denmark (mst@bornholmsmuseum.dk) MSc. *Do note that these are in-state estimates. -Field Archaeology: The documentation and field record. Zorita Castleperches on a plateau overlooking the tiny village of Zorita de los Canes. The Tabernaewere located on the south, east and west side of the Forum. For 2023, we plan to excavate at Area A and D, within a large structure dated to the Roman period and likely to contain diverse types of funerary deposits. Rutgers University Archaeological Field School in Italy, in operation since 2012, is a Rutgers Study Abroad summer program that teaches undergraduate and graduate students archaeological field skills and methods. Underwater archaeological investigations Contact information (including professional title, mailing address, and email address) of two academic references. Onto this courtyard converged all the roofs and poured the water from the rain into the cistern. If you are interested in joining the field school, pleasefill out an application (availablehereas a fillable PDF)and submit it to Cassady Fairlane atcassady.fairlane@wsu.edu. Have a minimum 2.5 CGPA Dinner and lunches on campus include a salad bar and a vegetarian entree. It has a rectangular floor plan and two floors. Working alongside professional excavators and experts in Epipalaeolithic communities, students will learn a range of archaeological research techniques and methods and about the wider context of Anatolian archaeology. Later, in the summer of 1999, Dmanisi produced two more hominin remains very primitive and small skulls of the same geological age. See more information here. We can supply supporting documentation and evaluation of your participation. Director: Prof. Teodoro Scarano, Associate Professor of Prehistory and Protohistory (SSD L-ANT/01), Dipartimento di Beni Culturali-Universit del Salento Email: teodoro.scarano@unisalento.it, [Outdated information, awaiting update] Date: July 10 to July 30, 2022, Project Website: https://www.archaeospain.com/pompeiithearchaeologyprogramprojectnecropolis.html, Summer 2022 Program can be found here, and a guide to the Pompeii excavations here. Oswego, New York, United States. Meals are available at an additional cost through University dining services, or students can choose to prepare their own meals. thrived as a focal point for commerce and military adventures during the wars to take control of Spain between Muslim and Christian armies. Fee includes food (except on Sundays) and accommodation, and weekend visits to various archaeological sites and museums in the area, but does not include travel to Greece or the 3day optional visit to the beautiful island of Thasos. See Vimeo video for information on Despotiko:Despotiko Video After the early Christian church was destroyed, first a pre-Romanesque church and then a Romanesque church were built. Offaly itself has been described as a flowering garden of monasteries due to the number and scale of the monasteries which continue to dominate its landscape to this day. Have completed a minimum of 30 units of university courses Concurrently, our osteology team has uncovered a very strange phenomenon within another church, at Teleac: 69 out of 70 burials were juveniles, with 49 preterm or fetal age, all of which dated to the 17th century. If you have any questions about the program pleasecontact Prof. Gary Farney (gfarney@rutgers.edu). The study of Porta Sarno Necropolis project offers an exceptional opportunity to investigate Roman society and its unique views of life and the afterlife. Nike Soccer Camp at University of Utah. Karen McIlvoy, M.A., Archaeology Laboratory Supervisor. 2022 Archaeological Field School Project 'U Mari | Stanford The Field School is open to young scientists, archaeology and anthropology students and interested persons. This large-scale excavation revealed the existence of living quarters separated by streets, upsetting our knowledge regarding the social organization of the Levantine Neolithic communities at the end of the 7th-millennium cal. Note that, Dr. April Kamp-Whittaker, University of New Mexico (, This field school is one of many operated in collaboration with the Institute for Field Research (, COTTONWOOD SPRING PUEBLO NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY ARCHAEOLOGY FIELD SCHOOL (in Southern New Mexico), Lubbock Lake Landmark Quaternary Research Program, Northwest Texas 2023 Field Work Opportunities, https://www.depts.ttu.edu/museumttu/lll/FieldResearch.html. Jenna Hurtubise, Ph.D. candidate, University of Alabama (Ph.D pending will graduate in May 2022) (jrhurtubise@crimson.ua.edu), Dates: Session I: June 26 to July 19, 2023, Project website: http://www.slavia.org/ Request the Summer 2022 project info packet here, In the summer of 2023 we offer an intensive learning experience in human osteology and mortuary archaeology at the medieval inhumation burial grounds in Giecz and Ga. Archeology summer courses in Europe - Summer Schools in Europe The Castle History. Registration does not guarantee acceptance to the program, which is contingent on a reference check. It is no longer seen as a city frozen in time, but as a settlement with a long and interesting history before its destruction by Vesuvius in AD 79. Both applications must be complete and submitted by the application deadline for your Field School. Visit Website. The Eastern Pequot Archaeological Field School is back for Summer 2022! -Documentation of various funerary contexts: The individual graves, plurals and reductions, secondary graves, and the graves of children. In a mere 30 years, the population has risen to around 5,800. Only one of the skeletons had a proper burial, an anthropomorphic stone tomb. It also deals with relationships & interaction with our closest relatives Homo neanderthalensis. Mateos restaurant makes amazing pastas and salads. The summer 2023 fieldwork season will beheld within close reach of medieval economic superpowers Dubrovnik & Venice that controlled the Adriatic Sea. The program also teaches many life-skills such as creativity, problem solving, teamwork, time management, resourcefulness and project design and implementation. Tanya Peckmann on LinkedIn: Summer Field School Archaeological Field School & Internship Opportunities An introductory course in anthropology, archaeology, and/or colonial history will be helpful, but is not mandatory. In 22 cases a different practice was chosen, since the dead were buried and their cremated remains were placed in clay corntainers. SFU Students: be in Good Academic Standing at the time of application Registration will be filled by priority first to WSU students by seniority and then first-come first-serve to guest students. 4. Our two-week Excavation & Recording 5 course runs from 24th July to 4th August 2023. The priority deadline isMarch 1st, 2023, but applications will continue to be accepted until the field school is filled. Our 2023 target excavation, the central building of the villa, has already presented us with a very complex and surprising occupation sequence and living practices. One is ground-truthing selected features detected by the NPS Remote Sensing Workshop, which will be held in the last week of May. The ongoing excavations focus on the trade and administrative centre of the town. Mornings will be dedicated to excavation with a break for a snack. Based on documentary sources, it is thought that St Kierans monastery was originally founded in the fifth century AD/CE, making it one of the earlier monasteries in Ireland. Sitting at the juncture of the Frankstown Road and the Conemaugh River, Newport helped connect the eastern and western United States and facilitated the movement of people, materials, and goods to, from, and through what was then the frontier. Argilos is situated on the north Aegean Coast, four kilometres west of the Strymon delta. The 2023 will be our seventh season at the site and thus far, we were able to complete the study of 65 individual urns. They were open to the main roads of the city. Participants are fully immersed in a small community while working with Marquesans and living as the only foreigners on an island with no airport or hotels. Based on this, BHFS students, heritage specialists, partnering institutions and local communities interact and collaborate with each other benefiting as follows: Considering this, we are always happy to inform each participant in any of our projects that joining the BHFS s/he becomes not only a student, but also: Date: May 21 to June 19, 2023 (thirty days total including two travel days). Students will stay in comfortable apartments located in Piombino, a city about 15 minutes away from the excavation. A special find from previous seasons was composed of an assemblage of seeds, sunstones and ceramics, that corresponds to the Funnel Beaker Culture in other parts of Denmark and overlaps in time with the Pitted Ware Culture and the Early Battle Axe Culture (Middle Neolithic A-V and Middle Neolithic B-I). 2. Aside from excavation and laboratory analysis, participants will learn about Peruvian prehistory through lectures and field trips, one of which will be overnight in the beach town Huanchaco to visit Chan Chan and Huacas de Moche. Documents mention a cemetery, but the only material evidence was a long stone slab, possibly a burial cover. The HSMC field school one of the longest-running historical archaeology field schools in the United States. Students who transfer credits must make arrangements directly with their college or university. English Sites that will be investigated will include searching for the location of a stable, slave quarter, and other structures associated with Jeffersons retreat home and plantation as well as later residents. Applicants will be selected based upon a review of their rsum, application form, statement of personal and professional reasons for wanting to attend the school, and recommendations. Our headquarters are in the picturesque village of Vaitahu, on Tahuata (Gauguin lived and painted nearby on Hiva Oa). 3. Students will understand how to obtain basic demographic data from archaeological skeletal populations. This year we will have two main activities. A statement of personal and professional reasons for participating is required. It initially offered experience in the Lednica region which included excavation of a medieval, wooden bridge abutment on Ostrw Lednicki island as well as a medieval cemetery in Dziekanowice. FIELD SEASON: June 24 July 19, 2023 Enrollment Status: Open, Full program details can be found here and the project syllabus can be found here. So far, the first traces of settlement in the town area being investigated date back to the beginning of the 1st century AD. The first excavations date to 1861, a Macedonian tomb was discovered east of the Palace by Leon Heuzey and Henry Daumet. The field school runs from May 22-June 16 and afterward folks will have all the skills needed to work as a technician. Data collected during recent field seasons provided tantalizing clues to the location of these structures, but their exact locations remain unknown. Usually the dead are places in simple pit, dug underground or in the fill of the tmuli. All Mancha region south of Almagro is known today as Campo de Calatrava, the first seat of the institution of monks warriors. The Turkana Basin Institute (TBI) offers, through Stony Brook University, several remarkable field education opportunities in the Lake Turkana region of Kenya. Bioarchaeological analysis of the medieval population buried at Badia Pozzeveri, with particular attention to biological diversity, paleopathology, and activity patterns. SFU Students: Be in Good Academic Standing at the time of application Students will be housed in single-occupancy dormitories on the Cowley Community College campus. Achill Archaeological Field School provides archaeology courses for all levels, from beginner to undergraduate to our very popular trainee supervisor course. ARCH 433-3: Background to Field Methods. 20/22 of these secondary cremations are dated in the 7th B.C.E. The imposing gorge of the river Gritos sculpts and shapes the landscape around Valeria. e: Two six-week sessions are offered in 2023: Join an ongoing field research program of international volunteer crews working with the professional staff at the Lubbock Lake Landmark, Roland Springs Ranch, and Post research areas in northwest Texas. This section will consist of fieldwork and material analysis, whereby participants will spend half of the fieldwork excavating the adobe platform and the other half on excavating the cemetery. All meals will be provided at the agriturismo for staff and students Sunday dinner through Friday lunch as part of the program costs. Amelia Earhart Elementary School. The relationships to and study of human remains in Europe differ widely from those practice in North America. AD 12501880). By 1450 BCE, however, the elite sites on the Siddi Plateau seem to have been abandoned, and the population moved away. Human burial at the Porta Sarno Necropolis includes both inhumations and cremated deposits. He is a Heritage in Schools Expert and teaches in-school archaeology education programmes. In our first excavation campaign in Valeria during the summer of 2022 many important discoveries were made. Cost Students are responsible for all other expenses (mainly housing, dining, and some minor supplies). As people grappled with how power was controlled and distributed in society, new religious practices and new ideas about community grew from these struggles. June 26 through August 4, 2023. immediately following the Adult Osteology Session. The Excavation Site and the Excavation Project. Our research is designed to address ongoing erosional issues at the Fortress of Louisbourg by actively excavating and analyzing the individuals interred at Rochefort Point. Every year, research into one part of the cemetery is conducted. Connley Caves Field School | Museum of Natural and Cultural History Remarkably, the ballcourts ritual sweat house, associated caves, and the ballcourt buildings themselves are set in a distinctive natural landscape and integrated with extensive land modifications and water control features. A five-week course, from 3 July to 4 August 2023, has a significant bioarchaeology component taught by Dr. Rachel Scott of DePaul University, Chicago. All these accredited courses will focus on excavations at the Tawnaghmore site, close to the Achill Archaeological Field School campus in Dooagh. A special category are the vases bearing protogeometric decoration, most usually cups with pendant semicircles. During the first three weeks of the course, students will reside in the village of Agios Georgios on Antiparos, from where they will be transported daily by a boat at the excavation site on Despotiko.