ArchFldSchool97.html Archeology is great fun and hard work . It's exploration and observation , exertion and contemplation .
Archeological research is often hot, sweaty, and routine and occasionally truly exciting.
During the Eight Week Session, from May 19 through July 11, the 1996 UNL Summer Field School in Archeology will offer students the opportunity to become involved in a major archeological project investigating the early history of Lincoln, Nebraska and other aspects of the Nebraska past. This work will cut through several of Lincoln s oldest neighborhoods. To document those sites to gather information about life and history of early Lincoln, most of the 8 week Summer Field School in Archeology will focus on sites in that area. Sites we expect to test at this time will include a 1860 s flour mill and a turn of the century African-American neighborhood. In addition to the work in Lincoln, students in the field school may also have the opportunity to briefly take part in excavation of pre-contact Native American sites being excavated by Nebraska State Historical Society archeologists. .