ANTH 253   Field Methods and Interpretation in Archaeology (RI)

Provides students with hands-on experience in procedures archaeologists employ in collecting, processing, and reporting data. The course revolves around two basic premises: learning about archaeology includes doing archaeology, and doing archaeology involves more than just digging. Training in archaeological fieldwork and data processing is based upon an ongoing research project in Central New York. Each student has the opportunity to participate in various aspects of this research from excavation and field recording to cataloguing and analysis. The culmination of the course is a detailed report based upon research conducted during the semester. This course fulfills either the Methods Course requirement or the Research Intensive Activity requirement for the Anthropology major, but cannot fulfill both.