Archaeological field schools, notably in North America but also across the world, are seminal student experiences. They are also important vehicles by which research students and academic staff carry out fieldwork research, often away from the environs of their home institution. Field schools are teaching and research projects, but they also take place within a contemporary local context. This is the first ever collection of studies examining the tensions between teaching, research and local socio-cultural conditions, and explores the range of experiences associated with field schools. It will be of interest to all those wishing to attend a field school, whether as student or junior staff member, and for novice and experienced field school directors who can gain fresh insights from others’ experiences.
This book examines tensions between teaching, research and local socio-cultural conditions in archeological field schools, and explores experiences associated with field schools. Covers disciplines such as geography, geology and environmental studies.
Theory and Practice.-Introduction by Harold Mytum.-The Pedagogic Value
of Field Schools: Some Basic Concepts by Harold Mytum.-Field Schools,
Transferrable Skills and Enhancing Employability by Hannah Cobb and Karina
Croucher.- Archaeology for All? Inclusive policies for Field Schools by
Amanda Clarke and Tim Phillips.-Archaeological Field Schools and Fieldwork
Practice in an Australian Context by Sarah Colley.-The UCLA Archaeology Field
Schools Program: Global Reach, Local Focus by Ran Boytner.-Teaching and
Researching.-Two-centre Field Schools: Combining Survey and Excavation in
Ireland and Wales or the Isle of Man. by Harold Mytum.-
Constructing New Knowledge in Industrial Archaeology by Timothy James
Scarlett and Sam R. Sweitz.-Underwater.-The University of West Floridas
Maritime Field School Experience by John R. Bratten.-Freshwater Underwater
Archaeology Field School, Good Practice, Good Science by
Anne Corscadden Knox and Sheli O Smith.-Non-Excavation.-Pompeii Food and
Drink Project by Betty Jo Mayeske, Robert I. Curtis and Benedict
Lowe.-Historical Archaeology Artifact Training in Field Schools: Three
International Case Studies by Alasdair Brooks.-Fieldwork and People.-
From Graduate to Professor: Changing Perspectives on Field Schools by Bonnie
J. Clark.-Suvoyuki Means Joint Effort: Archaeologists, the Hopi Tribe, and
the Public at Homolovi by Lisa C. Young.-Field Schools: people, places and
things in the present by Harold Mytum.
Dr. Harold Mytum is the Director at the Centre for Manx Studies, in the Department of Archaeology, Classics, and Egyptology, at the School of Histories, Languages, and Cultures, University of Liverpool, UK.
