*INFORMATION SESSION: Tuesday January 19th, 7 pm, SB 150
SUMMER 2010 FIELD SCHOOLS
Anthropology Department, Indiana University
Archaeological Field School in Montana & Wyoming
Exploring Historical and Social Landscapes of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
May 19 to June 30, 6 credits P405, Prof. Laura Scheiber
This is the 6th 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!
APPLICATION DEADLINE: March 12, contact scheiber@indiana.edu
Archaeological Field School in Indiana
Solving the Mystery of Yankeetown
First summer session, 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.
APPLICATION DEADLINE: TBA, contact susalt@indiana.edu
Anthropology Field Program in Mexico (with IU Overseas Study)
Heritage and Cultural Diversity in Oaxaca, Mexico
May 17 to June 7, 3 credits A406, Profs. Stacie King, Anya Royce, and Dan Suslak
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 visit field research sites in the mountains of the Sierra Mixe, mid-elevation Nejapa, and the coastal Isthmus of Tehuantepec and Puerto Escondido.
APPLICATION DEADLINE: February 1, contact dsuslak@indiana.edu
For more information, contact the faculty directors, or:
Stacie King, kingsm@indiana.edu, Professor, Anthropology
Kim Hinton, kishinto@indiana.edu, Undergraduate Adviser for Anthropology
April Sievert, asievert@indiana.edu, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Anthropology
