Links to Field School Opportunities
Archaeology Fieldwork
Passport in Time - a volunteer program of the USDA Forest Service.
Shovelbums - The archaeology and CRM professional's resource for jobs, news and gear + new international field schools directory.
Center for American Archaeology - offer variety of programs for all ages
Department of Anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History offers four weeks of intensive training in seminars and hands-on workshops at the museum and at an off-site collections facility. Students are introduced to the scope of collections and their potential as data. Students become acquainted with strategies for navigating museum systems, learn to select methods to examine and analyze museum specimens, and consider a range of theoretical issues that collections-based research may address.
Disclaimer: The America Anthropological Association does not advocate for or against these institutions, but merely supplies information.
Why do a Field School?
Cramming fieldwork experience under one's belt is almost a must for future anthropologists. An article published in Anthropology News in April, 2003. Read more
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