ANTH 339 - Field School in Archaeology

6 Credit(s)

The purpose of this course is to provide students with the basic skills, and the theories from which they are derived, necessary to do archaeological fieldwork. The student will learn basic techniques of site identification and recording, excavation, and artifact processing and analysis. In addition, they will learn instrument surveying and introductory applications of geographic information systems. The skills taught will be appropriate for either prehistoric or historic sites.