Field School
- ANTH 4350: Archaeological Field
and Laboratory Research.
Students participate in archaeological field research or conduct laboratory analysis of archaeological materials and data. Students work with faculty on archaeological research projects with a field or lab focus, depending on the project undertaken. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Prereq., instructor consent. Same as ANTH 5350.
Bluff Great House dig
(Photo/Cathy Cameron)
Every summer the CU Department of Anthropology conducts an archaeological field school for interested undergraduate and graduate students. From 2002-2004, the field school was conducted in the Southwest. In the summers of 2005 through 2008, students set up camp on the Great Plains with Doug Bamforth.
The Great Plains Archaeology Field School 2009: The 2009 Anthropology Department summer archaeological field school will be held in the Pine Ridge area around Crawford and Chadron, in northwestern Nebraska and will be taught by Doug Bamforth. This class trains students in the basics of archaeological field survey (site location) and excavation as well as preliminary laboratory processing of recovered materials. The specific work falls into two basic areas. We will survey areas along drainages leading into the Pine Ridge east of Chadron, searching particularly for sites that may have been small farming communities roughly 600 or 700 years ago. We will also carry out excavations on sites that we have located previously and on newly discovered sites. For review, a course syllabus and application are available.
The Southwest Archaeology Field School: this field school offers 6 semester hours of undergraduate or graduate instruction learning archaeological skills from a large, experienced staff. Catherine Cameron supervises research at Bluff, Utah and Stephen Lekson directs work at Cañada Alamosa, New Mexico. Cameron and Lekson each have over twenty-five years of experience in Southwestern archaeology, with fieldwork at Bluff since 1995 and at Cañada Alamosa since 1999.