AR2202:04
*NOTE* Archaeology Field School
Townsville
HECS Band 1
40 hours field work. July block mode.
Staff: Dr M Gibbs, Dr D Roe.
The Archaeology Field School will provide practical experience in the planning and execution of an excavation. The Field School will involve students in project planning; site surveying; the excavation of archaeological deposits; the identification and recording of stratigraphy; the recovery, recording and primary sorting of artefactual and other evidence and excavation management.
Learning Objectives:
- to provide practical experience in archaeological survey and excavation;
- to develop a knowledge of the various requirements of data recording in excavation contexts;
- to develop a skill base for the planning and management of an archaeological excavation;
- to develop the capacity to design, refine and conduct archaeological research projects.
Assessment by participation (10%); field exercises (40%); excavation report (50%).