Hi all,

I've had a few inquiries from students that are making last minute  
field school plans because of other cancelled field school projects.   
Please forward this note to anyone who might be interested.  Our field  
school is going forward and there are still a few places available.

For anyone interested, I have started a blog about the research  
project-including the museum exhibition, excavation, and public  
programming.  I began a few months ago and entries have become more  
frequent as the exhibit opening and field school start date approach.   
Other project participants and volunteers will make entries in the  
future as the dig gets going.
http://utahpotteryproject.blogspot.com

Cheers,
Tim
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Utah Pottery Project/Michigan Technological University
Location: Utah, United States
Season dates: May 11, 2009 - June 26, 2009

http://utahpotteryproject.blogspot.com

http://www.ss.mtu.edu/faculty/Scarlett/Research/UPP/upphome.htm

Project Director
Timothy James Scarlett, Department of Social Sciences, Michigan  
Technological University

Description
Join Michigan Tech archaeologists excavating at sites of nineteenth  
century pottery making in beautiful southern Utah. Immigrant potters  
settled in small towns and large cities as part of the Latter-day  
Saints' colonization of the desert and mountain west. Excavators hope  
to learn how the potters adapted to the new physical and social  
environments of the west, overcoming their limited technical skills to  
use new raw materials and building businesses for a new social market.  
The 2009 Excavations will concentrate on recovering details on  
production-related features, including the kilns, clay processing  
areas, and workshops, but will also include family households.

The Utah Pottery Project is a public archaeology program. Students  
will work side-by-side with community members in research teams. Teams  
will combine clues from excavation with evidence from oral history,  
experimental archaeology, materials science, and archival research.  
Students help to interpret discoveries to visitors both at the site  
and in blogs on the web. The excavation results will be used to build  
an operating replica pottery at the Iron Mission State Park Museum in  
Cedar City, Utah.

Students will learn a broad array of field techniques, including  
excavation, geoarchaeological and bioarchaeological sampling, survey  
and mapping (including GPS), photography, illustration, artifact  
identification, and materials science and experimental archaeology.

Southern Utah enjoys a stunning landscape with unequaled outdoor  
recreation opportunities, including ecological and heritage tourism.  
Within a few hours drive are Zion, Bryce Canyon, Arches, and Grand  
Canyon National Parks; Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument;  
Fishlake and Dixie National Forests; Lake Powell; the cities of St.  
George, Utah, and Las Vegas, Nevada; and many other heritage highways,  
state parks, forests, monuments, and museums.

Room and Board arrangements
Students stay in a field camp. Camp is free, but expect to provide  
your own tent and camping gear. Some communal equipment will be  
provided-cooking stoves and ice chests are examples. Students often  
organize themselves and share cooking responsibilities and costs.

Academic credit
Number of credits: 2-8 (as needed by student home institution)
Offered by: Michigan Technological University
Tuition: $331 to $723 per credit, see website for details, including  
guest student status and international student information:

http://www.ss.mtu.edu/faculty/Scarlett/Summer/FieldSchools.htm

Contact information
Timothy James Scarlett
MTU/Social Sci/AOB 209, 1400 Townsend Dr.
Houghton, MI 49931
USA
(906)487-2113
(906)487-2468 (fax)
[log in to unmask] (email preferred during 2008-2009 while on sabbatical)

Bibliography
Timothy James Scarlett, "Pottery in the Mormon Economy: an Historical  
and Archaeometric Study." Historical Archaeology. 41(4):70-95. 2007.

Timothy James Scarlett, "Flowscapes of Globalization in Mormon Pioneer  
Utah." International Journal of Historical Archaeology. 10(2):109-134.  
2006.

Nicole C. Little, Timothy James Scarlett, Robert J. Speakman,  
Christopher W. Merritt, and Michael D. Glascock, "Analysis of Historic  
Latter-day Saint Pottery Glazes by LA-ICP-MS." Archaeological  
Chemistry: Analytical Methods and Archaeological Interpretation.  
American Chemical Society Publication Series #968, pp. 447-459.. 2007.

Kirk Henrichsen, "Pioneer Pottery of Utah and E. C. Henrichsen's Provo  
Pottery Company." Utah Historical Quarterly. 56(4):360-395. 1988.

Christopher Merritt, "Trade and Consumption in the Mormon Great Basin,  
1847-1900: locally produced ceramics and instrumental activation  
analysis." M.S. Thesis, Department of Social Sciences, Michigan  
Technological University. 2006.


The field school announcements:
http://archaeology.about.com/b/2008/10/14/utah-pottery-project-fieldwork-in-focus-2009.htm
http://www.archaeological.org/webinfo.php?page=10037&entrynumber=2206