The
Department of Geological Sciences is pleased to announce a late summer field course
(GEOL-G 490/G 690) titled Field Geoarchaeological Methods: Principles of
Sediments and Stratigraphy. Our 3-week, 3-credit field course will
introduce students to geoarchaeological methods through hands-on work at the
Rockhouse Hollow Rockshelter in the Hoosier National Forest in Perry County
Indiana. The rockshelter has the longest record of human occupation in
Indiana (10,000 years). We will study sediments to learn how they were
deposited within the rockshelter, and we will obtain organic material that can
lead to a better understanding of environmental conditions in the region
thousands of years ago.
LOCATION:
Hoosier National Forest (Rockhouse Hollow Rockshelter, Perry County, Indiana)
DATES:
July 20 – August 9, 2014
APPLICATION
DEADLINE: June 1
Apply
online at http://geology.indiana.edu/herrmann/g490/index.html
Interested
students may contact Professor Ed Herrmann (edherrma@indiana.edu) and visit our
website: http://geology.indiana.edu/herrmann/g490/index.html
The
Department of Geological Sciences will handle registration directly.
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COURSE
ANNOUNCEMENT
Summer
2014 Field Course in Geoarchaeological Methods: Principles of Sediments and
Stratigraphy Geological Sciences (GEOL-G 490/G 690)
JOIN
OUR FIELD TEAM AS WE LEARN ABOUT ROCKSHELTER FORMATION, 10,000+ YEARS OF HUMAN
OCCUPATION, AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE!
STUDENTS
WILL LEARN:
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how to decipher sediments, stratigraphy and depositional environments
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how rockshelters form
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how stratigraphy develops within a rockshelter
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what kinds of data can be collected for paleoenvironmental reconstructions
LOCATION:
Hoosier National Forest (Rockhouse Hollow Rockshelter, Perry County, Indiana)
DATES:
July 20 – August 9, 2014
APPLICATION
DEADLINE: June 1
Apply
online at http://geology.indiana.edu/herrmann/g490/index.html
PARTICIPANTS:
Undergraduate and Graduate Students interested in sediments, stratigraphy, past
environments, and rockshelter formation processes.
PREREQUISITES:
Students are required to have taken an introductory class in geology or
archaeology. Mapping skills are beneficial, but not required.
Students
will gain hands-on experience with the methods and techniques most commonly
used to understand sediment deposition, weathering and soil development, and
depositional and human occupational chronologies in rockshelter landscapes.
Rockhouse
Hollow Rockshelter has one of the longest human occupation records in the
Midwest, and provides a very rare opportunity for students to work in a
rockshelter!
Announced by:
Professor Ed Herrmann
Research
Scientist
Department
of Geological Sciences, Indiana University
Office:
Room 417
1001
East Tenth Street
Bloomington,
IN 47405
(812)
856-0587
