Dear colleagues - please forward to any undergrads or graduate students who 
may be interested!  Thanks -


Summer Field School in Historical and Urban Archaeology
“Exploring the Lives and Material World of 18th-Century Merchants”
May 26–June 29, 2009 • Newport, Rhode Island

Salve Regina University and the University of Massachusetts Boston are 
pleased to offer a collaborative archaeological field school in Newport, Rhode 
Island. The research theme of the project is “Interpreting the Lives of 
Merchants in Eighteenth-Century Newport,” with a focus on the role of 
mercantile capital in shaping the urban landscape and the city’s social 
structures of race, class, and gender during the colonial period. Through daily 
archaeological fieldwork and laboratory analysis students will learn the process 
of excavation, field recording, sample collection, and basic artifact analysis in 
historical archaeology. The course includes an explicit focus on urban 
environmental archaeology, with specialized sampling for recovery of plant, 
animal, insect and parasite remains to study health, diet, and the changing 
urban landscape.

Salve Regina CHP 390: Summer Field School in Historical Archaeology
UMass Boston ANTH 685: Field Research in Archaeology

Undergraduates enroll through Salve Regina University for three or six credits; 
those enrolling for six credits will complete a project based on the season’s 
fieldwork.  Graduate students enroll for six credits through the University of 
Massachusetts Boston and complete a project.  Undergraduate costs for six 
credits and housing on the Salve Regina campus are estimated at $2600; 
graduate costs, including housing on campus, will be approximately $2800.  

For further information:
Dr. James Garman • Salve Regina • 401.341.3127 • [log in to unmask] 
Dr. David Landon • UMass Boston • 617.287.6835 • [log in to unmask]