Anthropology - Archaeology Roadshow

Catalog description

This is a 15-day, interdisciplinary field-trip course in the archaeology and paleoecology of a specific region. It provides students with high-impact learning experiences in a field setting, centered on visits to national parks, archaeological sites, and ecological and paleoecological field locations. More specifically, students have daily field-lab assignments related to different components of archaeology and ecology, for example vegetation identification and analysis, geomorphological mapping and description, archaeological-site stratigraphic mapping and description, archaeological-site survey and recording, field-artifact analysis, and bison ecology and behavior “ethogram.” Students complete learning modules as they tour important archaeological and paleontological sites with course instructor and local specialists. Course may be repeated once for credit if region varies. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Satisfies: Lab and Field Experiences (LFE)