University of Maryland Field School in Historic Archaeology

ANTH 496/696 (6 cr.) Summer Session I: June 5-July 14

Director - Mark P. Leone
Associate Director - Matthew Palus
Co-Instructors - Jennifer Babiarz and Lisa Kraus
Laboratory Director - Amelia Chisholm

PROGRAM:
The University of Maryland Department of Anthropology and the Office of
Continuing and Extended Education announce the 25th season of excavation
with Archaeology in Annapolis, a summer program of onsite archaeological
excavation and research.  This intensive, six-week program devotes eight
hours daily to supervised archaeological fieldwork.  The Summer 2006
excavations extend a long-term program of public archaeology in
Maryland's state capital that is supported by the Mayor and City
Council of Annapolis.  

Excavations within the city will take place in Parole, the site of a
Civil War prison camp, and a working- and middle-class African American
neighborhood that developed during the 19th and 20th Centuries.  As this
will be our first work in the neighborhood, and excavations will be
exploratory.  This year excavations will also be conducted outside of
the city, at the former plantation of Edward Lloyd on the Eastern Shore
of the Chesapeake Bay, on Maryland's Wye River.  This former
plantation is where Frederick Douglass was enslaved as a boy, and is
described in his autobiography My Bondage, My Freedom.  Test excavations
were carried out during the summer of 2005, and these verified the
location of a former quarter for slaves and the existence of very rich
archaeological deposits from Frederick Douglass' time.  Intensive
excavations at this site will begin during the summer of 2006,
continuing this multi-year archaeological study.

ACADEMIC RESPONSIBILITIES:
This course offers training in archaeological field techniques and
related concepts, and students will be evaluated according to the skill
and understanding that they acquire, the quality of their work and their
contribution to the research.  Students are responsible for reporting to
the site each day and contributing to the fieldwork, lab work and
ensuing discussion as each progress.  Students will complete weekly
reading assignments that address the methods and theories of recent
historical archaeological research.  They will review their assignments
at a weekly discussion led by project staff.  There will be weekly site
seminars where students will share progress in their excavation units
with others so that an understanding of the whole is always in sight.

INFORMATION:
For further information, contact: Matthew Palus
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Jenn Babiarz ([log in to unmask]) or Amelia Chisholm
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Department of Anthropology
University of Maryland
1111 Woods Hall
College Park, MD 20742-7415
301-405-1429

To register for this course and other UMCP Summer 2006 courses contact
Summer Programs, on the web: http://www.summer.umd.edu/c/ or e-mail to
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Mark P. Leone
Professor
Department of Anthropology
1108 Woods Hall
College Park, MD  20742-7415
(301) 405-8767 (office)
(301) 314-8305 (fax)