For over 40 years, the Leakey family - instructors for part of this program - have pioneered human prehistory research in this beautiful region of Africa, also commonly referred to as the "Cradle of Human Kind". Students learn in the field, lab, and classroom about fossils, archaeological artifacts such as stone tools, basic geology, and modern and ancient ecology & evolution. This program provides students with a comprehensive understanding about how biotic and abiotic factors and processes affected what we see and are today. In each of the five modules, students typically receive 2-3 hours of lecture each morning, 6 days a week. The afternoons are spent in the field and/or the lab. Methods taught include transects, live capture of small animals, fossil and stone tool discovery and recovery techniques, excavation, identification and preparation methods, identification and preparation of fossils and artifacts, and manufacture of stone tools. Approximately once a week there is an all day excursion (e.g visits to paleontological and archaeological sites, boat trips, and on occasion overnight camping trips).

In this 4-weeks long field school, the participants will attend virtual and in situ workshops on the culture, society, religion and post-conflict issues of Somaliland. The field school will assist in training the staff of the War Crimes Investigation Commission of Somaliland in forensic investigation of human rights violations.
At the completion of the course, the participants will have an understanding of the application of forensic sciences to the investigation of Human Rights violations, as well as the process involved in the examination, recovery and analysis of mass graves and their contents. As a norm students will spend two weeks working in the exhumation process and two weeks in the laboratory.

At the completion of the course, the participants will have an understanding of the application of forensic sciences to the investigation of Human Rights violations, as well as the process involved in the examination, recovery and analysis of mass graves and their contents. As a norm students will spend two weeks working in the exhumation process and two weeks in the laboratory.

Military camp site used by the British unit Steinaecker's Horse during the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902)

In Summer 2013, under the direction of Dr. Hugh McKenzie, the Department of Anthropology at Grant MacEwan University will be offering a 6-credit Archaeological Field School (ANTH 396) on Rebun Island, Japan. This Field School will be hosted by the Baikal-Hokkaido Archaeology Project (BHAP), which is an international collaborative research initiative exploring hunter-gatherer lifeways in Northeast Asia. Please see this website for details:
http://bhap.artsrn.ualberta.ca/fieldwork-2013

Excavate at Shimaki, one of Hokkaido's oldest archaeological sites, while earning university credit.

The Ifugao Archaeological Project returns to the Old Kiyyangan Village, Kiangan, Ifugao and initiates investigations on the Hapao Rice Terraces Cluster, Hungduan, Ifugao. The IAP hopes to fully document an early Ifugao Village (ca. 800 years old) and contribute to heritage conservation efforts in Ifugao.

Promtin Tai is an Iron Age cemetery site located in the central lowland area of Thailand. The site is on the grounds of a Buddhist temple associated with the modern village of Promtin Tai. The burials are located beneath about 2 meters of historic period deposits spanning perhaps 1500 years. Students will have the opportunity to excavate the historic area and cemetery, and will also learn how to clean and catalog skeletal material.

The 2013 Field School in Maritime Archaeology is an ongoing joint research expedition conducted in Bermuda by faculty and students of Saint Mary's College and the University of Rhode Island. The field school is a research-based learning experience that exposes students to a variety of activities including archaeological survey, underwater excavation and documentation of historic shipwrecks, archival research, and artifact conservation.

Settled in the late 1620s, Nevis is home to some of the earliest English settlements and fortifications in the Caribbean. This year's field work will investigate the site of Fort Charles, the largest and best preserved fort in Nevis. The fort is located .5 miles from Charlestown, capital of Nevis, and was constructed in the early 1600s. The fort remained in use until at least the 1870s, when the site was used as a customs fort. This year's field school represents the first archaeological investigations of this intriguing site and its 250-year history. Our work this summer will provide a unique perspective on the colonial history of the Eastern Caribbean, particularly as it relates to issues of trade and exchange.

The Southern Costa Rica Archaeological Project (SCRAP) is proud to be one of the most economical non-profit field schools in Latin America, and one which offers transferable college credits while maintaining a low faculty to student ratio. SCRAP is certified by the Register of Professional Archaeologists (RPA) and formally permitted in Costa Rica. You will be involved in an active research project with involving excavation, survey, and lab analysis. The cost of the field school subsidizes many of the research expenses and covers all your lodging, meal, and transportation expenses within Costa Rica.

Survey and Preservation Project 2013.
Field school and experience in the Ancient capital of the Bosnian Kingdom. Survey research, Mapping, Geoscanning techniques, Archaeo Photography and Laboratory Experience. International experience joining students from all over Europe.

Everything there is to know about medicinal herbs - Ancient and medieval sources on types of herbs and their use; Herbs in medieval art; Types of medicinal herbs, their preparation and their use; History of religious and cult practices related to herbs, etc...

This program is divided into two parts. In the first one our customers will carry out archaeological work -fieldwork, laboratory and theory- in the Neanderthal archaeological site of La Roca dels Bous, in Sant Llorenç de Montgai (Spain), which form part of the European Project POCTEFA. Here we will be in contact with and we will learn to use the most advanced technologies in the world of archeology with professors at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. We also will visit the Archaeological Park where we can find real-size replicas of the huts and their interiors of our ancestors and see how their quotidian life was.

The second part will take place in the city of Barcelona, where we will carry out cultural and archaeological tours though the most important sites of the city. Tours will be given by guides holding a degree in History that speak English, Spanish and Catalan. We will discover Barcino, the ancient Roman city located just in the center of the current city of Barcelona. As we explore the city there will be opportunities to visit other cultural and historical landmarks, such as the medieval walls, the most important archaeological museums in the city, and sites from the famous modernist architect Gaudí, such as the Park Güell and Sagrada Familia.

HARP will be running an Experimental Archaeology Field School in Cyprus in August 2013 in order to recreate a Bronze Age malting kiln and to brew some Bronze Age beer.

The Prastio-Mesorotsos Archaeological Expedition will be running an Introduction to Pottery Analysis Field School based in the historic village of Kouklia (ancient Palaepaphos) near Paphos, Cyprus.

The course provides an introduction to the study of ancient pottery using ceramics previously excavated by the Prastio-Mesorotsos Expedition and is an excellent opportunity for those interested in ancient pottery to learn the techniques used in archaeology to identify, classify, record and analyse pottery; valuable skills that can be transferred to the study of archaeological ceramics from any time or place. There is also an experimental archaeological component to this fieldschool.

In the summer of 2013, a team of archaeologists, specialists and students will conduct the fourth fieldwork season of the Prastio-Mesorotsos Archaeological Expedition. Located inland, nestled in the Dhiarizos valley of western Cyprus, the site is a multi-period settlement spanning much of the island’s history, from the Neolithic through to the 1950s AD. The project will be run as a Field School, and no prior experience is required of participants. Students of any discipline are encouraged to apply, especially those from Archaeology, Classics and History, but also those interested in surveying, geography, ethnology, as well as anyone with an interest in Mediterranean history of any period.

A five-day course suitable for people working in outdoor occupations, the rescue services, field archaeology and museums, or for anyone wanting a taster course in human osteology.

Please note, this course will involve handling human bones.

Participants will begin to develop skills in:
• Understanding of human musculoskeletal anatomy
• Understanding the principles of excavating human skeletal material
• Recording a skeleton both in the field and the laboratory
• Estimating age, sex, and stature
• Indentifying key features of both juvenile and adult dentition
• Understanding the fundamental characteristics of bone microstructure
• Recognising dental and non-dental pathology
• Interpreting osteological findings and relating them to the wider archaeological context

The Durotriges Project is an archaeological investigation studying the transition from the late Iron Age to the early Roman period in southern England.

The fieldwork, takes place within Dorset, a county of outstanding natural beauty and one of the best preserved archaeological landscapes in Britain. The project is run as a Bournemouth University summer field school.

Bamburgh Research Project has been excavating at Bamburgh Castle, Northumberland, UK since 1996. The present castle is one of the most stunning locations in the UK, with an extensive archaeological legacy. The excavations are set within the castle walls in the West Ward, and we are excavating through 4 metres of stratified deposits that are the result of occupation on the site from as early as the Neolithic. We also run a second dig nearby investigating a prehistoric wetland site that has revealed two Bronze Age burnt mounds - participants get to dig at both sites.

We run the project as a Field School each summer between 3rd June to 28th July in 2013. Apply via our website! Price £235.00 per week if paying by cash or cheque (advance payment necessary) or + 4% if you wish to pay via PayPal.

The project is open to ANYONE - as full training will be provided. For more details please apply online using our website: www.bamburghresearchproject.co.uk

The Thornton Abbey Medieval & Monastic Field School is one of the largest and best known research excavations currently taking place on monastic site in the United Kingdom. The field school provides hands-on training in all the most up to date techniques of British excavation, whilst students will be directly participating in the survey and excavation of an internationally important site.

The « Société Française de Bioarchéologie et Bioanthropologie » and the « Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes » offer a 2-week workshops in bioarchaeology and paleopathology.
The first week (SFB2) is designed to provide students with the practical tools needed for data collection of human skeletal collections. Basics in human osteology and burial taphonomy will be explored in lectures and labs.
The second week (EPHE) will focus on health conditions among past populations. Identification of osseous and dental lesions aimed toward epidemiological approach of skeletal series will be conducted in lectures and labs.The Workshop is open to students of all level. Language of classes is English.

The forest immediately to the south of the village of Hassloch contains a series of prehistoric tumuli that date from the Middle Bronze Age (c. 1,600-1,200 B.C.) to the late Iron Age (c. 50 B.C.). The largest of them is 36m in diameter and 2m in height and is known as the “Götzenbühl” or “Idol Hill.” Idol Hill was the subject of limited and non-scientific excavations in 1902. Since 2011, it has been the subject of an excavation directed by Philip Kiernan from the Department of Classics at SUNY Buffalo. Each year, the excavation trains 15-20 undergraduates and volunteers in archaeological methods.

Astypalaia is a small, beautiful Greek island. The field school is based on a large Archaic-Classical children's cemetery with >2700 burials - currently the largest in the world. Burials are dated between 750 BC and AD 100 and were carried out using large pots. Most of these are trade amphorae from all over the Aegean. Our task is to recover the children's skeletons from the pot burials, conserve, record and catalogue them as part of a biological study of the pattern of growth. Students gain detailed knowledge of identifying children's remains and become practiced in a range of useful fieldwork and laboratory skills that can readily be transferred to other projects.

The excavation of an Archaic Greek city (7th-6th c. B.C.) on the island of Crete in the Greek Aegean, documenting the form of an early urban center, reconstructing the sociopolitical and economic organization, and studying the process of urbanization. Current fieldwork focuses on the transition from the Early Iron Age (1200-700 B.C.) to Archaic periods, the early development of the city, and the material correlates for emerging social and political institutions in the Archaic period.

The Ager Minturnae Project offers innovative training opportunities through both archaeological excavation and conservation activities on site, organized by heritage professionals with extensive international experience.
This is a fascinating chance to carry out research activities within the archaeological site of Minturnae,
a Roman city founded more than 2200 years ago,
by assisting with the conservation of ancient floors,
walls and artifacts, in parallel to excavation.

The Ager Minturnae Project offers innovative training opportunities through both archaeological excavation and conservation activities on site,
organized by heritage professionals with extensive international experience.

This is a fascinating chance to carry out research activities within the archaeological site of Minturnae,
a Roman city founded more than 2200 years ago,
by assisting with the conservation of ancient floors,
walls and artifacts, in parallel to excavation.

The Project is made up in collaboration with Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici per il Lazio and it is open to both Italian and international university students
of archaeology, archaeological survey,
art history and cultural heritage conservation.

Every Week/Work Session there will be lectures, archaeological
excavation and conservation activities, finds processing and documentation,
guided tours.

At the end of each work session, students will receive
a certificate of participation signed by the Site Director, which can be used to obtain extra credit for their university courses.


Info and applications: info@agerminturnae.org
www.agerminturnae.org

Archaeology in central Sicily: the prehistory of the Erei
Third season of archaeological investigations at Case Bastione (Villarosa)
Fifth season of archaeological investigations at Tornambè (Pietraperzia)

The Field School of Archaeology is a school based
on theory-practice learning-techniques of excavation
and related research activities. The main purpose of
the Field School in Archaeology is to facilitate the
training of future generations of archaeologists
through direct contact with hands - on archaeology.
The Field Schools are organized in
cooperation with prestigious national and
international universities.

The Field School in Medieval Archaeology and Bioarchaeology at Badia Pozzeveri is an accredited academic program offered by The Ohio State University and the University of Pisa, Italy. The field school aims at training students in archaeological and bioarchaeological field and laboratory methods. The field school is an outstanding opportunity for students to gain practical experience in archaeological excavation and bioarchaeological investigation by working side-by-side with leading researchers in the field.

Explore the rich archaeological past of ancient Sicily this summer while uncovering ancient Iron Age, Greek, Roman, and Medieval remains. Northern Illinois University's Archaeological Field School in Sicily offers an excellent hands-on opportunity to learn archaeology. Modules will include field excavation and museum exhibit design and installation. Join us for what promises to be an amazing summer of discovery!

For those interested in learning how to interpret a historic skeletal assemblage, the Apolline Project is offering a two-week intensive boot camp in physical anthropology.

Portus (Fiumicino) was the imperial maritime port of ancient Rome and, together with the neighbouring river port at Ostia, was the focus of a network of ports serving Imperial Rome between the mid-1st century AD and the 6th century AD.

The Field School is hosted by the Portus Project (www.portusproject.org), established six years ago with an aim to study the maritime port of Imperial Rome, Portus, located at the mouth of the Tiber (Italy). Directed by Prof. Simon Keay and led by the University of Southampton, the project is run as an international collaboration with a number of partners, including the Soprintendenza Speciale per i Beni Archeologici di Roma, the British School at Rome and the University of Cambridge. Due to its academic excellence and cutting-edge innovation in fieldwork techniques, including computer modelling work, Portus is currently a leading Roman archaeology excavation recognized as such by the highest academic funding bodies, whose support it continues to enjoy, as well as wide media coverage, including recent BBC1 programme Rome’s Lost Empire ("The Roman Empire: what lies beneath" is the US version of the programme).

For those seeking experience in archaeological fieldwork this summer, the Apolline Project in the Campania region of Italy is now welcoming applications from students of all levels to participate in a major Roman dig.

A unique opportunity to learn doing an hand-on experience in the only Etruscan city built by the Mediterranean Sea, visit our project on www.archeodig.com and join us in the archaeological excavation of the Etruscan necropolis of San Cerbone-Casone next June!!

Between 7 and 27 July 2013 the Laboratory of Ancient Topography of the University of Pisa will promote an archaeological field school opened to foreign and Italian students of archaeology who wish to live an experience of survey and excavation in Italy.
The field school will focus on the Roman port of Vada Volaterrana, along the coast of Tuscany (Leghorn’s province). Here a settlement of considerable interest, related to the harbour system of one of the most famous Etruscan and Roman city in Tuscany, Volterra, has been found and partially excavated. Investigations revealed large warehouses (horrea), two bathhouses (balnea), the seat of a corporation running the port (schola) and other commercial buildings.
During 3 weeks students will be followed and guided by expert archaeologists in all the activities archaeologists attends to in the field:
- Archeological Survey through the countryside
- GPR (Ground Penetrating Radar) Lab
- Excavation of a new sector of Vada Volaterrana settlement
- Pottery Lab
- GIS software Lab
All the activities will be introduced by lectures.

Students will be excavating a Roman period cemetery (1st - 3rd c. AD).

CARP 2013 is continuing work on the Roman limes in Rasnov, Romania. Join the team for 5 weeks this summer to discover more about this understudied province of Rome, to become an archaeologist dealing with materials from the late Iron age and Roman period, and to experience a new culture first hand. Spaces limited, so apply today!

Join the Willamette University Archaeology Field School (ARCH 355) for a unique opportunity to excavate in one of the world’s premier archaeology project in The Heart of Neolithic Orkney (a UNESCO World Heritage Site). Through Willamette’s exclusive relationship with the University of the Highlands and Islands, students will work with the Orkney Research Centre for Archaeology and Orkney College as they unearth a unique and immense Neolithic ritual complex on the Ness of Brodgar. This award winning and internationally recognized excavation is redefining our understanding of the Neolithic world. The field school provides intensive, on-site training in archaeological methods and techniques and emphasizes a holistic approach to archaeological inquiry. In addition to daily instruction on excavation theory, technique and recovery, course lectures and fieldwork will emphasize a variety of topics including topographical and geophysical survey techniques, stratigraphy, ceramic typology, geomorphology, paleobotany, and the archaeology of the Orkney Islands. Visits to regional archaeological sites and museums give students a broad cultural and historical background in the archaeology of the region.

Join us at SERF in 2013! For six years the Strathearn and Royal Forteviot (SERF) field school has been investigating a rich archaeological landscape in the heart of Scotland. The SERF project is multiperiod; exploring the creation of large ritual monuments during the early prehistoric period (over 4000 years ago) to the emergence of a Pictish royal centre (over 2000 years ago) to the Post-medieval historical land-use.

The field school will runs from the 15th of June to the 5th of July in 2013. Participants will recieve formal training in a range of essential archaeological field techniques. Evening lectures and field trips are also part of this learning experience.

Field school in paleoanthropology and Palaeolithic archaeology at the hominid- and Mousterian-bearing Balanica site in Central Serbia offered to graduate and upper-level undergraduate students by the University of Winnipeg.

It is our pleasure to welcome students from different countries to get a valuable experience in European archaeology with the possibility to excavate remains from the Roman period up to the Medieval Ages at Plaza de Armas, Écija, Sevilla, Spain. Different seminars in relation to archaeological methodology in different fields as GIS, Bioarchaeology, Material Culture and Restoration will be also taught.
The activities will consist on:

MORNING SESSIONS
Fieldwork: archaeological excavation (8am-2pm, Monday to Friday).

AFTERNOONS SESSIONS:
Labwork: post excavation laboratory analysis (5pm-8pm, Monday and Wednesday) and Seminars (5pm-8pm, Tuesday and Thursday).
There is also a tour each Saturday to a key historical city in Andalusia like Granada, Seville or Córdoba.

Intends to offer attendees the possibility of sharing the experience of participating in the archaeological excavation of a relevant site, and meet social and environmental interest, surroundings of the Monegros Comarca, in the province of Huesca.

It is not necessary to have previous experience in archaeology

Field-School for Quaternary Palaeoanthropology and Prehistory of Murcia, S.E. Spain.
Session 1: Tues July 3 – Tues July 24, 2012, at Cueva Negra del Estrecho del Río Quípar (Caravaca, Murcia, Spain).
Session 2: Tues July 24 – Tues August 14, 2012, at Sima de las Palomas del Cabezo Gordo (Torre Pacheco, Murcia, Spain).
Contact: Professor Michael J. Walker, Department of Zoology and Physical Anthropology, Biology Faculty, Murcia University, 30100 Murcia, Spain.
Emails : walker@um.es mjwalke@gmail.com
http ://www.um.es/antropfisica

Descr. Excavation and instruction at Pleistocene Palaeolithic sites with hominid remains:
Cueva Negra: late-Early-to-early-Middle Pleistocene transition about 800,000 years ago, with “pre-Neanderthal” Homo heidelbergensis teeth and Acheulo-Levalloiso-Mousteroid palaeolithic implements;
Sima de las Palomas: early Late (i.e. Upper) Pleistocene about fifty-thousand years ago, with abundant Homo neanderthalensis skeletal remains and Mousterian palaeolithic implements.
Per. Session 1, July 3 – July 24, 2012; Session 2, July 24 – August 14, 2012.
Country Spain
Loc. Session 1: Cueva Negra del Estrecho del Río Quípar (Caravaca, Murcia, Spain);
Session 2: Sima de las Palomas del Cabezo Gordo (Torre Pacheco, Murcia, Spain)

Focuses on classical archaeology excavating and studying urban structures of the city of Sanisera and the pottery found in the city. Participants will use ARGIS software practicing computer drawing skills in order to create an archaeological GIS platform from the applied recoding system of the Roman city of Sanisera.

Enjoy archaeology at a real 1936 Spanish civil war front, you will dig up trenches, machine gun nests and other war defences. Includes safety induction, fieldwork, lectures, guided visits, war defence reconstruction and meetings civil war veterans.

Excavate at the site of a Roman village whilst learning the latest archaeological techniques. Some of the remains of the village are visible below an amazing 500 year old house. Includes: fieldwork, lectures, building recording, surveying, planning lessons and field guided visits.

Excavation of a 2000 year old Iberian cemetery. You will excavate ancient graves alonside an amazing Spanish beach. Includes fieldwork, lectures, laboratory work experience and field guided visits.

The excavation in summer 2013 will be at one of the most important and fascinating Viking Age harbour sites on Gotland, situated in Västergarn parish in the western part of Gotland. It is called Paviken, named after the bay close by. There have been excavavations at the site earlier, and this year's excavation will concentrate on a complementary excavation of the settlement area and also some graves from Viking Age.

For the 2013 field season, we will be examining and analysing skeletal remains belonging to the Gepid culture, excavated from the Northeastern plains of Transylvania. All analytical work will take place in the National History Museum of Transylvania (MNIT), located in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. If available, students will also have the opportunity to experience bioarchaeological fieldwork.

In addition to the analytical component, lectures will be given by TBRG archaeological and museum staff on:
-the history of the culture and the region as well as practical bioarchaeological concepts including basic osteology and standard recording techniques;
-establishing MNI;
-ageing and sexing of adults and non-adults;
-non-metric traits and normal variation;
-biomechanics;
-palaeopathology;
-and advanced methodologies including histology, radiography, stable isotope analyses, and ancient DNA and bacterial DNA extraction and amplification.

For the first time, the University of Sheffield’s Department of Archaeology is offering its popular human and animal bone short courses in a 2-week Super Package! This suite of courses is specially designed to introduce participants to the study of human and animal remains.

The human and animal bone labs have teamed up to offer both our human and animal bone courses back to back from June 17-28th, 2013. All of our courses assume no prior knowledge and can be taken on their own, or in combination with any of the other courses.

Sheffield has a long history of teaching and research in osteoarchaeology, and members of our current research teams have a wealth of professional and practical experience. We have worked extensively on projects in the UK and Europe, as well as in other areas of the world.

Participants have previously come from throughout the UK, Europe, North America and Australia for our courses, and we hope to make it easier than ever to attend our Super Short Course Package.

We are a new fieldschool in Sussex with various venues and courses. We aim to provide training for amateurs and professionals alike as well as offering volunteer opportunities at our excavation site during July. Please see our web-site www.sussexarchaeology.co.uk

An important site with natural harbors on the north and south sides of the site(today beautiful, white sand, swimming beaches), Dor preserves a continuous sequence from the Bronze Age through the Late Roman period. City fortifications plus residential, industrial, and public buildings including temples allow us to reconstruct life in the town for each period. Monday through Friday we dig in the morning, and Monday through Thursday we continue the day with processing and analysis of pottery and bone with experts in the afternoon followed by presentations delivered by excavation staff and affiliated archaeologists and scientists.

The Antiochia ad Cragum Archaeological Research Project (ACARP) announces its third archaeological field school for the summer of 2013.  Antiochia ad Cragum is located on the south-central coast of Turkey in ancient Rough Cilicia.  The Project is currently excavating a third-century AD Imperial temple, a colonnaded street, and a major bath complex that includes a large mosaic.  In 2013, in addition to continued work on the Temple and Bath Complex, we plan to begin work on the city’s Agora or marketplace.

So you want to hunt for evidence of our earliest ancestors?... Welcome to Koobi Fora.

The National Museums of Kenya and George Washington University’s Center for the Advanced Study of Hominin Paleobiology have teamed up to provide you with a unique opportunity to explore some of the most remote parts of Africa and search for evidence of hominins in the most dramatic landscapes you will ever experience.

Apply to be a part of the Koobi Fora Field School, the premier paleoanthropology training experience. Our team of experts from all over the world have begun conducting exciting new field projects that you can be a part of. Field projects include:
- Studying fossilized footprints from 1.6 million years ago
- Finding evidence of human scavenging and hunting 2.0 million years ago
- Exploring evidence of climate change and animal communities over the last 4 million years
- Discovering the changes associated with the emergence of domesticated animals in East Africa

Our faculty include the foremost experts in hominin physiology, Paleolithic archaeology, landscape archaeology, zooarchaeology, bioarchaeology and many more.

Join us to be a part of the exciting new research. A life changing experience awaits you on the shores of Lake Turkana…

Rock Art Ranch is a private ranch 25 miles southeast of Winslow, AZ. The ranch contains some of the Southwest’s most spectacular rock art dating from 6000 BC to AD 1300. The ranch lies in the high desert at 5100’ elevation, in an area used over the past 8000 years by mobile hunting and gathering groups, early farmers, and later, after A.D. 500, by more sedentary farmers representing archaeological cultures of the adjacent Mogollon Rim and Colorado Plateau regions. For 2013, the goals are to document how the landscape was used by groups over the past 8000 years, how and why groups migrated to and from the area, and what role the rock art played in communicating identity and ownership. Excavations have already helped develop a tighter chronology for the area and provided details on length of site occupation and subsistence base. Survey by fieldschool participants have located 60 new sites in two summers that cluster in three time periods: Basketmaker II (early agricultural), 1000 BCE-500 CE; Basketmaker III/Pueblo I, 600-900 CE; and Pueblo III, 1100-1250 CE. It is the BMII groups who carved most of the petroglyphs.

Santa Catalina Island is an important hub for the intermingling of people and the exchange of ideas and objects. Surrounded by rich marine and lithic resources, Island people were contributors to an extensive trade network throughout southern California and the Southwest. The Pimu Catalina Island Archaeological Field School is run in partnership with California State University Northridge (CSUN) each student is awarded 8 semester credit units.

The 2013 UC Davis field school will take place in Colusa County near Williams, California and in Fish Lake Valley on the California-Nevada border. The field school will continue UC Davis' tradition of offering a well-rounded training program in archaeological field work. Students will be instructed in archaeological survey and excavation techniques. The six week course may also include guest lectures from visiting professors and other professionals and will give 9 quarter units of credit.

A six-week field course including three weeks of excavation in Central California and three weeks of survey in the western Great Basin.

The San Bernardino National Forest, San Manuel Band of Mission Indians, and California State University San Bernardino are offering an Applied Archaeology Field School designed to provide you with the skills you will need to get a job with a cultural resource management firm or government agency

Field School in CRM and NHPA section 106 compliance that includes archeological testing of three Basketmaker III/Pueblo I sites in SW Colorado.

The Beman Triangle fieldschool at Wesleyan University provides the opportunity for training in historical archaeology through the excavation of a mid-nineteenth century property owning African American community. We will be working closely with the descendant AME Zion Community, and training will also include methods and theory in community archaeology.

As this fieldschool is offered as part of Wesleyan University's summer session, students may also register to take a non-archaeology class concurrently with the fieldschool and will be part of a small summer school community on the Wesleyan campus.

The University of Leicester and the federally recognized Mohegan Tribe are working together to study archaeological sites on the Mohegan Reservation in Uncasville, Connecticut (established in 1671). As part of the process of investigating present and former tribal lands, the Mohegan Archaeological Fieldschool engages in archaeological research at pre-European sites as well as early historic sites and reservation-era sites. The Mohegan Fieldschool, now in its 18th year, works under the direct supervision of Dr Craig Cipolla (University of Leicester) and staff members of the Mohegan Archaeology Department as authorized by the Mohegan Council of Elders.

The University of Connecticut and Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center will offer a field school in battlefield archeology at two Pequot War battlefields; the Battle of Mistick Fort: English Retreat (May 26, 1637) and the Siege and Battle of Saybrook Fort (Sept. 1636 – May 1637), and a War of 1812 battlefield: the British Raid on Essex (April 7-8, 1814).

Embedded in an active, methodologically rigorous research program addressing the linkages between modern material culture and behavior in urban America, this field school aims to produce a robust dataset that allows archaeologists to reflect on the ways that social identity is indexed in/with everyday trash. Working in a unique, New England urban setting, students will learn to apply both archaeological and ethnographic research methods as they study the garbage of city dwellers from ethnoarchaeological and forensic perspectives, with special attention to the most ubiquitous of urban trash, cigarettes. Field and lab training include surface survey, artifact collection and identification, GPS mapping, photography, scan sampling, person-centered interviewing, GIS, and database design.

Join us for the 2013 investigations of the Garden Patch (8DI4), a major Middle Woodland site on the Gulf Coast listed on the National Register of Historic Places. With six constructed mounds and extensive habitation areas dating to 1800 years ago, the site was a significant Weeden Island ceremonial center with far-reaching connections. This summer’s field school will investigate several portions of the site, including test excavations in the densely occupied village areas and the largest mound in the ceremonial precinct, as well as subsurface survey in adjacent areas.

Shipwrecks in dynamic environments do not give up information easily. The late 19th century Polish cotton carrier is spread across Molasses Reef in the Florida Keys. Understanding the systematic pattern of wrecking can provide valuable insight for other sites in similar dynamic situations.

The prehistoric underwater archaeological field school will take place in the Aucilla River of North Florida. The primary activities will be a scuba survey of a mile-long section of the lower river followed by controlled surface collection as a prelude to our excavation of a well-known inundated Paleoindian site.

This field school will take place on the Georgia Coast on Sapelo Island, Georgia. The main focus of our investigations will be the Kenan Field site, which is a large Mississippian mound center on the island.

This field school will take place at two archaeological sites in the Georgia interior. Raccoon Ridge is a Late Woodland village in Morgan County (30 mins from Athens, staying in town) which we will investigate through a combination of archaeological and geophysical surveying methods and targeted excavation units. Singer-Moye is a large Mississippian mound center in the Chattahoochee River valley (3.5 hrs from Athens, staying near the site). Here, we will be conducting targeted excavations in suspected habitation areas.

The Cooper's Ferry site is located in the beautiful lower Salmon River canyon of western Idaho and contains some of the earliest evidence of humans in the Pacific Northwest. Previous excavations show that the Cooper's Ferry site contains a long record of repeated human occupation, beginning with a Western Stemmed Tradition assemblage that may be directly associated with radiocarbon dates of 11,370 and 11,410 14C years BP. These dates are controversial and, if true, support arguments that peoples bearing the Clovis tradition were not the first to settle North America. Join us this coming summer to learn professional archaeological excavation, recordation, and field curation skills as we seek clues about the first peoples of Far Western North America. Students will also get an introduction to landscape and site-level approaches to geoarchaeological study--perspectives that are important in the search for and study of the First Americans. Current OSU students and non-OSU students are welcome to apply.

The Arizona State University Kampsville Field School is a 9 credit hour field school located at the Center for American Archeology in Kampsville, IL, June 9 - July 19, 2013. Bioarchaeology and Human Osteology, Field Archaeology and Geophysical Testing, and Geomatics (GIS, Geophysics, and Geoarchaeology) options are available. Program tracks are concurrent, and students may enroll in only one program per year.

This summer marks the 14th annual archaeological field school, through Washington University's University College, at the Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site near Collinsville, Illinois. Cahokia Mounds has been extensively excavated by multiple institutions for decades now. Major occupation of the site occurred from 900-1350 AD, and it was one of the most important and influential sites of the ancient United States. Please join us for our 2012 Field School in archaeology. This course is not restricted to Washington University students; you are encouraged to register.

Four weeks of intensive instruction in archaeological excavation methods, working on the Kincaid Mounds site in southernmost Illinois. Students will stay in nearby Brookport, IL, and be taken to/from the site daily. Two sessions are offered, which run consecutively; students may take either session, or both.

Iowa Lakeside Laboratory Archaeological Field School 2013: State Archaeologist of Iowa John Doershuk will continue research on regional late prehistric/protohistoric Oneota tradition archaeological sites during a four week session based at the beautiful Lakeside Lab facility on West Okoboji Lake. Field trips to Pipestone, Blood Run NHL, Sanford Museum, and Jeffers petroglyphs included.

Archaeology… the development of the nation… the Maine coast in July… Sea kayaking... Does it get any better? Join us as we investigate the early Euroamerican settlement of Downeast Maine at the Joy/ Flood site overlooking Acadia National Park. This 4-week program introduces students to excavation, survey and laboratory analysis. The Joy/Flood site was one of the first houses built in the area and hence can inform processes of adaptation and adjustment to new environments.

Archaeology in Annapolis: Field School in Historical Archaeology

This course introduces students to the role of the biological anthropologist, archaeologist and forensic scientist in excavations of human remains.

Join Michigan Technological University's industrial archaeologists in documenting a historic copper mine in the heart of Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula. The Keweenaw is famous for its abundant formations of native copper, ranging in size from pebbles to record-breaking boulders of pure metal. Our ongoing project investigates the ruins of the Cliff Mine, the region's first profitable copper mine, the townsite of Clifton (established 1845, peaked c.1870, and abandoned in the early 20th century), and comparable sites on the Keweenaw.

The WMU archaeological field school will be conducted under the auspices of the Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project, a long-term, multidisciplinary, community-based learning program designed to examine the fur trade and colonialism in the St. Joseph River valley.

The University of Mississippi will be conducting an intensive archaeological field school at the Carson Mounds site, one of the largest prehistoric ceremonial centers in the Mississippi alluvial valley. In his 1894 landmark publication on the mounds of the eastern United State, Cyrus Thomas included a map of the site showing more than 80 mounds. Most of the smaller mounds have been obliterated by the more than 100 years of cultivation that followed. This course offers students the opportunity to learn archaeological field methods at one of the major Mississippian sites in the Southeast. Much of the work this season will focus on mapping complex ritual structures and mound excavation. Students will also learn more advanced archaeological techniques including GIS and remote sensing using magnetometry and ground penetrating radar.

Join us for UNC’s 2013 summer field school in North American archaeology. This
year’s field school, led by Prof. Vin Steponaitis, will take place during Summer
Session 1 (May 14-June 18, 2013) and will be based in the beautiful and historic
town of Natchez on the Mississippi River. We will conduct excavations at Feltus
Mounds and several other sites in the area which date ca. AD 700-1500.

We will be excavating a Mississippian Village site near Cape Girardeau, MO, as part of a long term teaching/research project focused on understanding inter- and intra- community social relations in late prehistoric Southeast Missouri.

The Blacktail Ranch Field School is a hands on Archeological Field School that has been operating since 2008. 2013 makes our fifth year. We will again be excavating a buffalo jump as well as teaching skills in survey, mapping, recording and evaluation.

Applications are now being accepted for the 2013 Texas A&M University/Archaeology Southwest Field School at Goat Spring Pueblo. Situated in the Magdalena Mountains overlooking the Rio Grande Valley, this village was occupied for almost 400 years. Over the course of its occupancy, residents of this village witnessed the introduction of new religious practices, the production of unique polychrome pottery, extensive migrations, the incursion of the Spanish, and the Pueblo Revolt. Come join us for 5 weeks, and help explore a fascinating period in New Mexico’s history.

Learn excavation, survey, and
analysis methods in a stunning and
archaeologically rich part of the American
Southwest. Our innovative Preservation Archaeology curriculum fosters critical
consideration of how various communities value archaeology and history,
and we explore diverse means of sharing research results with host
communities and the broader public.

The University of Missouri Department of Anthropology is pleased to offer our summer archaeology field school at 76 Draw, south of Deming, New Mexico. Students will earn 3 to 6 credits (undergraduate or graduate) in Anthropology. This is our fourth season working at the site, which is the northernmost settlement of the Medio period Casas Grandes culture. Students will learn excavation, site recording and artifact analysis skills. Our curriculum highlights the goals, ethics and practice of field archaeology, as well as having fun in the New Mexico sun. Interested students are also given the opportunity to continue participating in the project after the field work is over. This can include laboratory analysis of materials and independent research. Both graduate and undergraduate students have published work from their involvement in the project.

The prehistoric Boland-Campville site consists of a series of hunter-gatherer camps dating to c. 2500-1000 B.C. The camps are part of a complex of Late Archaic and Transitional period sites within the Susquehanna Valley that form the core of a Binghamton University research program.

Montclair State University in collaboration with Higher Ground Intercultural and Heritage Association, a community-based cultural organization, are researching the history and archaeology of the mixed heritage Native and African American community in Setauket, Long Island, New York. Entitled “A Long Time Coming,” this collaborative project is now entering its fifth year of research.

The field school at Sinking Ponds site (UB 262) is conducted by the Department of Anthropology, State University of New York, at Buffalo. The aim of the field school is to train undergraduate anthropology students in the filed methods of archaeology, including excavation, artifact analysis, survey, and mapping of an archaeological site. Sinking Ponds represents a pre-contact site, and one of the most significant of the Meadowood Phase (c. 800-500 BC). It has profound implications for our region and the understanding of cultural developments throughout North America.

UNC Wilmington will offer a field school in the Wilmington area of North Carolina from May 20-June 20, 2013. Our goal is to investigate two separate parks in the Wilmington area: Brunswick River Park in Belville, and Halyburton Park, in Wilmington. Over the course of the session, students will learn surface surveying, excavation techniques, record-keeping, mapping, and basic lab techniques, including flotation. We will also go on field trips to some local archaeological sites of interest. The class will be 6 credit hours, and will be intensive--it will take place M-R 9-5, and F 9-12.

The 2013 William Peace University Archaeological Field School will be held at an historic site on the lower Cape Fear River, from Monday, May 20th through Saturday, June 15th. Students participating in the field school earn 4 credits in ANT 450 Archaeological Fieldwork. The field school will provide students training in basic methods of archaeological survey and excavation as they uncover the history and culture of the colonial era and the Civil War. The field school also includes training in an archaeological field lab. In addition to the fieldwork, students will benefit from guest lectures on Cape Fear history and North Carolina archaeology by visiting archaeologists and historians. The students are housed in the quiet beach town of Oak Island, and will have the opportunity to visit nearby North Carolina historic and cultural sites such as Southport and Fort Fisher.

The Forensic Science and Anthropology Field School is an intensive, four-week course. Students participate in, from the perspective of multiple disciplines, the resolution of a mock medicolegal death investigation from crime scene discovery to courtroom testimony.

Since the spring of 1989, Dr. Bush has been investigating the 16.5 acre Johnson’s Island Civil War Prison archaeological site, located on a small island in Sandusky Bay, Lake Erie. From April 1862 until the end of the war, the prison functioned as the main depot for over 10,000 Confederate Officers captured at hundreds of battles during the Civil War. Designed to hold approximately 2500 prisoners of war, it eventually held up to 3200 at any one time. The overcrowding resulted in the construction of new latrines and to an expansion of the prison compound. This provides archaeologists with an opportunity to study changes in the physical structure of the prison as well as in the lifestyles of its occupants.

Summer High School Credit - Archaeological Field Course
A Field School Just for High School Students
Earn an Ontario High School Credit
in Two Weeks this Summer
doing
REAL ARCHAEOLOGY
The 36th season of Boyd Archaeological Field School
takes place from August 9 – 25th at Claremont Field Centre, Pickering, Ontario, Canada
Students complete a Grade 12 Interdisciplinary Studies Credit (IDC4U) while participating in all aspects of an actual excavation.
In this unique experiential course, students also learn through
• hands-on activites such as flintknapping and other ancient technologies
• classroom sessions from our certified teachers, professional archaeologists and First Nations elders
• guest lectures from leading experts in archaeological disciplines
Whether or not you plan to pursue a career in archaeology, this total immersion course will challenge you to perform at new levels of achievement in a team environment.
“This course has been a life changing experience. I absolutely loved everything…Thanks to all the staff members and the student’s for making this journey so memorable!”
-Shamim

Website: http://www.boydfieldschool.org/
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Tuition: $1995 CDN for Ontario residents, $2395 for non-residents

In 2013, the University of Oregon Archaeological Field School will be at Rimrock Draw Rockshelter. Rimrock Draw is a stemmed point site near Riley, Oregon. This site has already produced some exciting finds and by attending the 2013 field school you can be a part of this important investigation.

Located in the northern Great Basin near Lakeview, Warner Valley is rich in archaeological resources. Over the course of five weeks, students will learn fundamental archaeological field methods (pedestrian survey, site mapping/recordation, and rockshelter/open-air excavation) during their search for clues about the lifeways of Great Basin Paleoindians. In addition, students will learn about the region’s flora and fauna and paleoenvironmental information that shows how the northern Great Basin has changed since people first came there.