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

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...

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 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

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)

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 aim of this archaeology and bioarchaeology field school is to learn of the lifestyle of the prehispanic population in Peru Highlands.