Field School Objectives
Archaeological Setting
Schedule
Project Location and Facilities
Credit and Fees
Faculty Mentors
Application Procedures
Note: the SCARP field school ended in 2004. The announcement below (from the 2004 field school) is provided for informational purposes only.
DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY
THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA and
HERITAGE PROGRAM
WHITE MOUNTAIN APACHE TRIBE
FIELD SCHOOL IN
ARCHAEOLOGY AND HERITAGE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
MAY 29th TO JULY 11th, 2004
SPONSORED BY THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
RESEARCH EXPERIENCES FOR UNDERGRADUATES SITES PROGRAM
Application Deadline is March 12th, 2004
The University of Arizona Archaeological Field School offers a six-credit field course in archaeology and heritage resource management for undergraduate and graduate students. Ten undergraduate students will be sponsored by the NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates Sites Program. These students will be eligible to receive a stipend of $1,800 and waiver of tuition and fees. An additional five post-baccalaureate students will be accepted as part of the overall research and training project. Students participating in the program will learn contemporary archaeological field methods including mapping, survey, excavation, damage assessment, and ruins preservation and stabilization. The program will be conducted in cooperation with the White Mountain Apache Tribe and will emphasize the collaboration of archaeologists and Native Americans addressing issues central to research agendas and community development initiatives. An intensive program of lectures, discussion, field trips, and student projects will augment fieldwork. The staff will include archaeologists, tribal representatives, and experts in historic preservation and ethics.
Field School Objectives Archaeological Setting
Schedule Project Location and Facilities Course Credits and Fees Faculty Mentors Application Procedures
Please send completed applications to: Printable Application form. Word format © 2002. Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona.
A major focus of the project will be to demonstrate, through participatory activities, the scientific and community benefits of cooperative research. Student research activities will include mapping of Pueblo and Apache sites, archaeological survey, surface collection, ruins stabilization, damage assessment, stabilization and preservation of architecture and looter-damaged deposits, laboratory processing and analyses, field trips, and excavation. Students will rotate through each of these activities during the six-week program. Each student will select a research project that will use data collected by the project, supplemented by their own research. The results of the research projects will be presented in a symposium at the end of the project and the proceedings will be submitted to the White Mountain Apache Tribe.
The project is located in the Mogollon Rim region of east-central Arizona. Most of the sites in the area post-date AD 1000 and are considered ancestral to Western Pueblo groups now living in Arizona and New Mexico. The Field School operates as part of the Silver Creek Archaeological Research Project (SCARP), which focuses on the economic, social, political, and ritual reorganization of Ancestral Pueblo communities during the late thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. This period was a time of marked changes in spatial, political, economic, and social organization in the Greater Southwest. Despite common processes of migration, aggregation, and reorganization, however, specific organizational changes were highly varied. These different organizational changes are the primary focus of our research.
Archaeological research during the 2004 season will focus on mapping sites in the Forestdale Valley. Survey in the valley will be used to better understand the process of community aggregation. Survey methods will focus on the re-location and re-recording of sites from all time periods, techniques of surface collection, mapping and the use of global positioning systems (GPS) technology to locate sites. Small-scale excavations will be conducted at a site on the Sitgreaves National Forest.
The field season will run from May 29th to July 11th 2004. Fieldwork will be conducted each weekday. A distinguished lecture series will be presented most weekday evenings focusing on four major themes: (1) the region and its people, (2) archaeological method and theory, (3) ethics, and (4) career development. The ethics component consists of six interactive topics that incorporate a specialist in archaeological ethics, members of the Apache Tribe’s Cultural Advisory Committee, the Director of Cultural Resources of the Apache Tribe, the Tribe's Sacred Sites Program Manager and student panels. A three-day field trip will be taken to Canyon de Chelly and Chaco Canyon.
Most fieldwork will be conducted in the beautiful Forestdale Valley on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation in east-central Arizona. Excavations will be conducted on the Sitgreaves National Forest, which is immediately north of the reservation and where the field camp is located. The field camp is located in the small town of Pinedale, about 12 miles west of Show Low and 10 miles north of the Mogollon Rim. Staff and students live in tents and cabins on the grounds of a historic Forest Service ranger station. The camp includes a kitchen, shower house, laboratory, and outdoor artifact processing facilities. A full time cook will be employed by the project.
The Field School emphasizes training at the advanced undergraduate and graduate levels. Undergraduate students are eligible for NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates support. This includes a stipend of $1,800 and waiver of tuition and fees. NSF-REU students must be U.S. citizens. Non-domestic students and students who have received their B.A. by May 2004 are also eligible to attend, but are not eligible for REU funding. The cost for these students is approximately $1,200 for tuition and $700 in fees, which includes food, round-trip travel between Tucson and our field camp, local travel, cook’s salary, equipment (except for personal equipment), and laboratory and computer supplies. All students will earn six credit units at either the undergraduate (Anth 442A and B) or graduate level (Anth 642A and B). To be eligible for graduate level credit, you must have earned your B.A. by May 2004. Members of federally recognized Indian tribes are strongly encouraged to apply.
The faculty mentors include experts in Southwestern archaeology, historic preservation, site stabilization and mapping, oral history, cultural affiliation, and land use history:
Each student is required to submit an application form, transcripts from all colleges attended, and two letters of recommendation. The final date for receipt of all application materials is March 12th, 2004. Applicants should have previous archaeological course work experience and previous field or laboratory experience is desirable. We select students on the basis of scholarly ability (at least B or 3.0 grade point average), and professional motivation (based on statements in the application and letters of recommendation). We will select 15 students for the 2004 field season (10 REU students and 5 additional students). For the undergraduate REU component, preference will be for students who are entering their junior or senior years in the fall following the Field School. Students from underrepresented minority groups are especially encouraged to apply. Students will be notified of acceptance no later than April 1st.
Dr. Barbara J. Mills, Director
Archaeological Field School
Haury Building
Department of Anthropology
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721-0030
For more information please email: bmills@email.arizona.edu
Comments to Barbara Mills
Department of Anthropology
The University of Arizona
Emil W. Haury Building
P.O. Box 210030
Tucson, Arizona 85721-0030