Annual Summer Archaeological Field Schools

Since 1995, the Department has offered an annual summer field school in archaeology.

The course of instruction involves five weeks of intensive training in “how to do archaeology.”

Past field school sites have included multiple ancient Native American mound centers, late-18th-century frontier forts, 19th-century residences of enslaved African Americans, and an early- to mid-19th-century church.

Information on recent and upcoming archaeological and ethnographic field schools is available through the links below:

• Summer 2017 Archaeological and Ethnographic Field Schools:
  • Archaeological Field School Brochure 2017
  • Archaeological Field School Information 2017
  • Ethnographic Field School Brochure 2017
  • Ethnographic Field School Information 2017
• Castalian Springs Project
• Sam Davis Home and Plantation
• Bledsoe’s Fort
• Pinson Mounds
• Wynnewood State Historic Site
• Dust Cave
• First Presbyterian Church
• Summer Ethnographic Field Schools (On occasion, the department offers an intensive field training course in ethnographic methods.)
  • 1998 — Huatusco, State of Veracruz, Mexico
  • 2003 — Gurupa, Brazil
    • Faculty Report