Training includes the fundamentals of archaeology including ethics, survey strategies, sub-surface sampling procedures, excavation techniques, artifact analysis, report writing, and the critical reading and writing of history. Students will also have the opportunity to interact with Native American guest speakers who are writing their own histories. The research area is on the northwest Plains of Alberta and the field school trains students in field and laboratory techniques. Students will receive instruction in a broad variety of field and laboratory techniques. May 23 .
Instruction includes basic principles of survey, mapping and excavation.
The University of Montana, Missoula, MT 59812. The field school will train students in archaeological techniques at Zhoukoudian and also includes tours in Beijing and elsewhere in China and runs June 8-July 12. Field sites are located in the Krusenstern National Monument, just north of the Arctic Circle.