We then pack and travel to Bella Coola on the coast - a 1000 km drive to the north. July 9-27 2001. The Archeo Topo Center. A unique opportunity for students to become acquainted with maritime adaptation of prehistoric Native Americans and historic Basque whalers. Three sites, to be excavated in the summer of 2001, were occupied from 7000 years ago to the 19th century by seal and whale hunters.
Place is ideal for whale watching.
The field school is a research-based learning experience that will expose students to a variety of activities including archival research, artifact conservation, remote sensing survey, and underwater documentation of historic shipwrecks. University of Missouri at Saint Louis. Colonial Williamsburg and the College of William and Mary. Excavation of a ca. The project is part of an on-going research program specializing in detailed environmental sampling and public interpretation.