Field Schools
ANTHR 396
What: Indigenous Archaeology Field School
When: May 23 - June 23, 2023
Where: St. Albert, AB
The Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology (IPIA) will be offering an Indigenous archaeology field school in the Spring/Summer of 2023, where students will learn archaeological field methods alongside Indigenous community members. The field school will be located in St. Albert, AB working in collaboration with the Métis Nation of Alberta.
Instructor approval is required to enroll in the course. The cost of the field school is the cost of a 6-credit course (approximately $1,787) plus an additional fee of $1,000. Please note that this course (ANTH 396) has a prerequisite of ANTH 206, or equivalent course. Google form applications for Instructor Approval will be open and available on the IPIA website in January 2023. Inquiries can be directed to ipiafoa@ualberta.ca.
CLASS 475/476
What: Archaeological field school in Thessaly, Greece
When: July 24 - August 13
Where: You will be based in Narthaki, a small town near Pharsala, Greece
2023 will mark the fourth season of the “Central Achaia Phthiotis Survey” (CAPS,) a project focused on landscape archaeology of the environs of Kastro Kallithea. It complements the Kastro Kallithea Archaeological Project (KKAP), which is currently being prepared for publication. CAPS is a cooperation between the Hellenic Ministry of Culture, represented by the Ephorate of Antiquities in Larissa and the Canadian Institute in Greece represented by the University of Alberta, Bishop University and specialists from a variety of universities in Europe. The project receives significant support from the Municipality of Pharsala.
You will be participating in this exciting project as a student team member, and will receive first rate instruction from experienced archaeologists. The survey will focus on a landscape surrounding a very well preserved fortified Classical-Hellenistic City (Kastro) near the present day village at Kallithea in Thessaly, Greece, that our team has previously studied.
The goal of the project (CAPS) is to study the deep history of the landscape surrounding the ancient city using a variety of archaeological field strategies, including surface survey, GIS, targeted remote sensing and ground-truthing in the form of surface clearing, recording and mapping. Our ultimate aim is to obtain better insight in the ways humans interacted with their natural resources, how they moved through the landscape (transport routes) and how their subsistence economies were embedded in larger networks of trade and exchange. We are especially interested in charting how these aspects change over time and how both landscape and society evolve and transform as part of this dynamic interaction. In our temporal focus we will move far beyond the Classical and Hellenistic habitation history of the city: we expect to find evidence for human activity dating from the Neolithic period to the Ottoman period and later.
This six-credit course fulfills the field school requirement of the Certificate in Archaeology.
For further information, visit the website or contact Professor Margriet Haagsma (haagsma@ualberta.ca).