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GUNSTON HALL FIELD SCHOOL IN HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY
Dates: June 19July 14, 2000

Gunston Hall Plantation and the University of Virginia Continuing
Education are pleased to announce a field school in historical
archaeology. The intensive four-week field school will provide students
with a working knowledge of standard archaeological methods by stressing
hands-on participation in field research at Gunston Hall.

ABOUT GUNSTON HALL
Gunston Hall, once the Potomac River estate of Virginia planter and
patriot George Mason, is now a 550-acre history museum in southeast
Fairfax County. Ongoing archaeology helps the museum present the public
with a sense of what day-to-day life was like on a Virginia tobacco
plantation over two centuries ago.

ABOUT THE FIELD SCHOOL
Under the guidance of the plantations staff archaeologists, field school
students will learn the basics of field survey, site excavation, data
recording, and artifact analysis. Additionally, students will be exposed
to the unique challenges of historical archaeology, most notably the
analysis of primary documents. Textual analysis clarifies historical
archaeologys differences from standard historical inquiry. It also
underscores the complex relationship often existing between old
manuscripts and excavated artifacts.

The focus of excavations will be Gunston Halls Colonial-era boxwood
garden, which contains the oldest dated boxwood plants in Virginia. By
locating, exposing, and recording fence lines, walkways, planting holes,
building foundations, and other buried garden components, field school
students will help determine the gardens original 18th-century design.
This project will guide the replanting of the garden in 2001.

Since Gunston Hall is located just 20 miles south of Washington, D.C.,
students will also visit the Smithsonian Institution, Mount Vernon, and
Old Town Alexandria during the course of the field school.

CREDIT
Students may receive 4 graduate credits from the University of Virginia.

TUITION AND SCHOLARSHIPS
Virginia Residents: $414 (after scholarship)
Non-Virginia residents: $798 (after scholarship)
Virginia K-12 educators: $382 (after scholarship)
Non-Virginia educators: $714 (after scholarship)

Every student will receive a scholarship from Gunston Hall that will
reduce tuition by $150.

HOW TO APPLY
Deadline: April 30, 2000
Include:
1) 1-page resume with full address, phone numbers,and title
2) A statement of personal and professional reasons for wanting to
participate in the field school
3) 2 letters of recommendations addressing 1) academic and professional
ability and performance and 2) ability to work well with others.

Send to: Andrew Veech, Field School Director, Gunston Hall Plantation,
10709 Gunston Hall Road, Mason Neck, VA 22079

FOR QUESTIONS:
Contact Andrew Veech at email: [log in to unmask] or (703) 550-9220
Roseann Parks at email: [log in to unmask] or (804) 982-5313