I Know What You Did Last Summer: Student Contributions at Field Schools

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "I Know What You Did Last Summer: Student Contributions at Field Schools," at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

Every year, field schools train students in archaeological methods and theories to prepare them for careers in the field. Yet, students are not empty vessels into which professionals pour their knowledge in exchange for their labor. Instead, students are equal partners in archaeological explorations of the past who bring expertise and perspectives of their own. This session invites recent field school participants to share their important roles at their field schools. Rather than a show-and-tell of things students did and learned, papers in this session will address the ways students contributed to larger project goals through lab analysis, artifact research, documentation, technological knowledge, public archaeology/consultation/social media outreach, adjustments due to COVID, etc...