hope you are well, teaching and working part time at the SHPO office, will look for more details for the coming summer field school, will plan to visit, jiim

>>> scarlett <[log in to unmask]> 10/21/2008 5:12 PM >>>
A field school announcement.

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://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 run 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,  
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. 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.
Cost: N/A

Academic credit
Number of credits: 2-8
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)
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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