Field School Announcement
 
What: The DAACS-University of Virginia Field School in Historical
Archaeology, The Archaeology of Sugar and Slavery in Colonial Jamaica
(ANTH 382)
Where: The University of West Indies, Mona. Kingston, Jamaica
When: May 24-June 21, 2008
Credits: 6 academic credits from the University of Virginia
Tuition: $3325 (in-state), $3418 (out-of-state)
Application Deadline: March 15, 2008
For more information see: www.daacs.org
Apply Online at
:http://www.studyabroad.virginia.edu/index.cfm?FuseAction=Programs.ViewP
rogram&Program_ID=06067772724F0302750C75750E0A1C017D0F73140E0A74706E0906
737B02750B0F700070727B717B05&Type=O&sType=O
 
Please contact  Jillian Galle ([log in to unmask]; 434-984-9873) with
any questions regarding the program. 

Field School Abstract:

The 2008 DAACS-University of Virginia Field School in Historical
Archaeology, The Archaeology of Sugar and Slavery in Colonial Jamaica
(ANTH 382) offers a unique field school experience for advanced
undergraduate and graduate students from universities throughout the
United States and Caribbean. This field school provides students with a
solid grounding in archaeological field and laboratory methods, with a
specific focus on understanding slavery in the culturally diverse and
economically complex context of the Caribbean through the archaeological
record. 

The goals of this course are threefold. First, students will learn
archaeological survey methods, basic excavation techniques and field
recording methods through daily field work on 18th-century sugar
plantations located on the campus of the University of West Indies,
Mona, outside of Kingston, Jamaica. Second, regular participation in
laboratory activities will expose students to 18th and 19th century
material culture and provide the basis for analytical exercises that use
the archaeological data to make concrete arguments about people living
at the Papine and Mona villages. Finally, students will be exposed to
collaborative interdisciplinary research through lectures, tours, and
field recording projects with faculty from the University of the West
Indies, the Jamaica National Heritage Trust, Colonial Williamsburg, and
Monticello. Students will have the opportunity to travel throughout
Jamaica through supervised weekly field trips and architectural field
recording projects off campus. 

A detailed description of the field school, as well as  a preliminary
course syllabus, is available online through the University of
Virginia's website.   

 For more information and to apply online, please go to the University
of Virginia's Study Abroad website:
http://www.studyabroad.virginia.edu/index.cfm?FuseAction=Programs.ViewPr
ogram&Program_ID=06067772724F0302750C75750E0A1C017D0F73140E0A74706E09067
37B02750B0F700070727B717B05&Type=O&sType=O.