The Anthropology department and Glenn Black Lab are again sponsoring an information session about our summer field programs in Archaeology and Anthropology. It will be held on Thursday January 22nd, 7:00 pm in SB 150. Representatives from all four programs will be on hand to answer questions and refreshments will be served.
Archaeological Field School in Montana & Wyoming: Exploring Historical and Social Landscapes of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
6 credits P405, Prof. Laura Scheiber
This is the 5th cooperative program in archaeological field methods in the beautiful Bighorn and Absaroka Mountain ranges of Montana and Wyoming. This field school is a holistic, field-based program in the social history and human ecology of the northwestern High Plains and Middle Rocky Mountains with a special emphasis on the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. If you like camping, hiking, and archaeology, this field school is for you!
May 20 to July 1, 2009, APPLICATION DEADLINE: March 14, 2008
http://www.indiana.edu/~anthro\about\news\archfieldschool.html
Archaeological Field School in Indiana: Angel Mounds Mississippian Townscape Project
6 credits P405, Prof. Chris Peebles and Dr. Bill Monaghan
The IU Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology will offer their annual field school at Angel Mounds State Historic Site near Evansville, Indiana, as part of the sites' 70th anniversary celebration. Students will participate in all aspects of archaeological fieldwork, including survey and excavation, geoarchaeological and geophysical remote sensing, site documentation and preliminary analysis. This project also offers opportunities for in-lab analysis for credit following the field school.
May 12 to June 18, APPLICATION DEADLINE: March 31, 2009
http://www.gbl.indiana.edu/fschool.html
Archaeological Field School in Indiana: Solving the Mystery of Yankeetown
6 credits P405, Prof. Susan Alt
Join a team of archaeologists trying to solve an archaeological mystery! Excavations will be designed to discover how Yankeetown people organized their towns and built their houses. This field school is the beginning of a large scale project designed to better understand how interactions between different groups of people led to culture change, innovation, religious movements, and violent conflict.
June 22-July 31, 2008, APPLICATION DEADLINE: TBA
The Open School of Ethnography and Anthropology: Heritage Ethnography Field School in Yucatán, Mexico
8 credits, Dr. Quetzil Castaneda
Program is a cultural and linguistic immersion based in home-stays with Maya families in the community of Pisté, located 3 km. from Chichén Itzá. Students learn to design and conduct independent ethnographic research projects in any area of heritage, including Art & Intangible Cultural Heritage; Archaeological Heritage; Ethnography of Archaeology; Tourism Development & Urbanism; Community Strategies of Tourism; Social History through Life Histories; Applied and Action Research; Maya Medicine, Health & Healing; Art Exhibitions and Ethnographic Installation; Visual Ethnography; Ecological Heritage. Participants are also given basic training in Maya language.
May 17 to July 4, 2009, APPLICATION DEADLINE: February 4, 2009
http://www.osea-cite.org
Anthropology Field Program in Mexico (with IU Overseas Study): Heritage and Cultural Diversity in Oaxaca, Mexico
3 credits A406, Profs. Stacie King, Anya Royce, Dan Suslak, and Catherine Tucker
This program will introduce students to the research process in anthropology on the topics of heritage and cultural patrimony, linguistic change, cultural diversity, economic revitalization and human-environment interactions in historic Oaxaca, Mexico. Students will visit museums, archives, archaeological sites, markets, and arts events in Oaxaca City and will travel outside the city to the mountains of the Sierra Norte, the Sierra Mixe, and to the low-lying Isthmus of Tehuantepec and Pacific coast to field research sites.
NEXT OFFERED MAY-JUNE 2010, APPLICATION DEADLINE: January 2010
http://www.indiana.edu/~overseas/flyers/oaxaca.html
http://www.indiana.edu/~anthro/about/news/oaxaca.html
