Call for Applications: Caribbean Archaeology Field School. Dec 01 - Jan 02
(apologies for cross-postings)
The Department of Archaeology, University of Bristol, UK, in conjunction
with St Lucia National Trust, is delighted to announce the second season of
The Colonial Landscape of St Lucia (West Indies) - an historical landscape
archaeology field school. The course carries 40 credits, which are usually
accepted as equivalent to 4 semester hours of graduate or undergraduate
credit (North America). Full details are online at www.fieldschool.net
The field school will run from 29 December 2001 to 25 January 2002. The fees
are £1300, which include all accommodation, food, transport, tuition and
administration. Participants are simply responsible for their own flight to
St Lucia. The school will provide a full introduction to the principles and
practice of landscape archaeology, and to historical and Caribbean
archaeology in general. In particular, tuition will focus on the combination
of evidence from landscape survey, building recording and targeted
stratigraphic excavation.
During the first season, a late 18th century sugar estate, early 18th
century coffee works, a complex system of water power, two areas of slave
accommodation, a sequence of four estate houses, and many other structures,
roadways and fields were identified, mapped and sampled. In this second
season, further landscape survey in the south of St Lucia will be
undertaken, and open area excavations will be carried out in two areas: an
area of slave accommodation, and an area where evaluation identified two
18th century domestic structures built on a Carib midden, which in turn
sealed an Arawak post hole structure.
Application forms are online at www.fieldschool.net. Specific enquiries
about the course should be directed to [log in to unmask]
Dan Hicks
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Dan Hicks
Caribbean Field Schools
Department of Archaeology, University of Bristol
43 Woodland Road, Bristol. BS8 1UU. UK
tel 44 117 954 6060
fax 44 117 054 6001
email [log in to unmask]
web www.fieldschool.net
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