Industrial Archaeology in Nevada

 Archaeology of the Virginia and Truckee Railway Section System

 June 12 - July 14, 2006


 Course Title: ANTH 448/778: Field School in Archaeology
 Credits: 6 Semester Hours

 Instructors:
 Donald Hardesty, PhD, Professor of Anthropology, UNR
 Efstathios I. Pappas, MS, Instructor in Anthropology, UNR

  Located in Nevada?s famous Comstock Lode, this field school will focus 
on a late 19th and early 20th century railroad section camp located on 
the Virginia and Truckee Railway. This railroad was at one time 
America?s most affluent shortline and was built to transport silver 
ore, supplies, and people to and from the booming silver strike at 
Virginia City. The case study is located at the site of Scales and is 
an example of a railroad section camp devoted to housing workers and 
equipment. In this case, fieldwork will focus on the documentation of 
the domestic areas for the section foreman and his family, as well as 
the unskilled laborers? bunkhouse. In particular, this project will 
examine the interplay between industrial ideologies, social class, 
gender, and ethnicity in order to understand the rise of the industrial 
order during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

 Learn Fundamentals in Archaeological Survey and Excavation
 ? survey
 ? GPS
 ? mapping
 ? total station
 ? excavation
 ? recording
 ? field laboratory methods
 ? archival research
 Program Costs: $1,200

  Students are responsible for food and lodging in or near Reno, Nevada, 
some accommodations available at minimal cost, contact instructors for 
more information

 INFORMATION:
 For further information contact

 Efstathios I. Pappas, MS
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 775-784-6704 ext 2021
 209-603-7363 cell

 Department of Anthropology/096
 University of Nevada, Reno
 Reno, NV 89557

  To register for this course contact Summer Session, on the web: 
http://summersession.unr.edu

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 Efstathios I. Pappas, MS
 Doctoral Student
 Department of Anthropology/096
 University of Nevada, Reno
 Reno, NV 89557
 (775) 323-5730