C enter The Graduate Program At Syracuse University, graduate study in historical archaeology is a relatively new emphasis. Our focus is on ethnohistory, culture change and transformation, and the impact of historical contact and interaction between cultures. The historical archaeology emphasis within anthropology draws upon our strengths in social and cultural anthropology as well as from Maxwell School faculty in History and Geography. The primary area of faculty research has centered on cultural transformations African historical sites and in African-Caribbean slave communities.
Students have the opportunity to participate in our on-going field research in Jamaica.
Graduate research is assisted by the newly equipped archaeology laboratory. Students are also encouraged to take advantage of the University's excellent computing and Geographic Information Systems facilities.