Dr. Sheli Smith & Anne Corscadden Knox, PAST foundation
Description
The Clarksburg Shipwreck field school, an introduction to Maritime Archaeology is a combination of lectures and hands-on experience relating to all the facets of an archaeological investigation. This field school is a joint project of California State Parks and the PAST Foundation. The course covers hands-on experience with Gold Rush material culture, historical research, mapping maritime landscapes and underwater documentation techniques. Students will learn while working on this new and exciting Gold Rush shipwreck site. The reports from the field school will be delivered to the project partner California State Parks and published online.
Participants in the field school must be certified divers by the start of field school and have DAN insurance. Students are expected to provide their own dive gear however, weights and air will be provided along with food and housing at field school.
Students can receive 3 academic credits. For more information please contact PAST Foundation.
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BLM Archaeological and Cultural Resource Services The Bureau of Land Management's New Mexico State Office has a requirement for resource identification, documentation, evaluation, record keeping, protection, mitigation, education, outreach, and information dissemination activities associated with managing the cultural and heritage resources within BLMs area of responsibility in New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas.
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What Lies Beneath? Native American Tribes of the Boise, Idaho Archaeological Record And a Site in the Boise Foothills Tests have confirmed the dates and the fact that the artifacts, found in the Boise foothills near the Table Rock plateau, came from the same source of obsidian as the Squaw/Timber Butte location, east of Payette and North from Boise. This Squaw/Timber Butte location is known as a major prehistoric source of obsidian glass in eastern Idaho prehistory. ( A re-cap of the original report and research below.)
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