Type of Opportunity: Field school
Where: Delta Junction, Alaska
When: July 5 to August 5, 2005
Cost: Approximately $1425
Contact Information: David R. Yesne, Professor of Anthropology, University of Alaska Anchorage
3211 Providence Drive
Anchorage, AK
99508
Phone: (907) 786-6845
Email: mammothman@gci.net or afdry@uaa.alaska.edu
Web site: www.uaa.alaska.edu/enroll and http://www.dnr.state.ak.us/parks/oha/mam...
This will be the eighth and final field season for University of Alaska Anchorage field school at the Broken Mammoth Archaeology Field School in Alaska. This year's field school will include classroom instruction and practical excavation experience at the Broken Mammoth Paleoindian site. Students will learn basic site surveying techniques, laying out new areas for excavation, and excavation techniques. Participants will also receive hands on experience in the laboratory recording and cataloguing artifacts.
The Broken Mammoth site is a Paleoindian site dating from 10,000 and 12,000 radiocarbon years ago. This year's excavations will focus on the central portion of this site which includes known hearths, tools, and large mammal bones. However, some additional excavation may also occur at the extreme eastern portion of the site and areas near the bluff edge on the extreme western portion of the site. Previously, these areas have uncovered hearths, stone tools, and bone and mammoth ivory artifacts.
The costs for this field school include a tuition fee ($400 for the four credit course) and a special course fee ($975) plus required text books [Field Methods in Archaeology, edited by Hester, Shafer, and Feder (Mayfield Press); and American Beginnings, edited by F.H. West (University of Chicago Press), paperback version costing about $50]. These fees include all of the food, supplies, equipment, and local transportation costs for the field school.
This fee does not include accommodation while at the field school. Free camping is available at the site. Dorm rooms are also available in Anchorage, at about $40 per night. Furthermore, as there will be no cooking at the camp on days off, student will be expected to pay for their food on Sundays. During the week, students will are expected to share in the kitchen chores. Showers and laundry services are available for about $4 in Delta Junction
For more information, contact David R. Yesne at the University of Alaska Anchorage at mammothman@gci.net or afdry@uaa.alaska.edu or visit the course web site at www.uaa.alaska.edu/enroll and http://www.dnr.state.ak.us/parks/oha/mam...
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