Beyond the Death March: Scott Fedick´s Legacy as a Field School Director
Author(s): Bethany Morrison
Year: 2015
Summary
Beyond his career as a professor and researcher, Dr. Scott Fedick has been a patient and dedicated teacher of archaeological field schools. In this capacity he leaves a legacy of changed lives. This paper looks back on the BRASS and Yalahau field schools and the lasting impression they left on participants. It also discusses field school pedagogy, looking at what has changed and what remains the same since the days of Scott´s famous death marches.
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Beyond the Death March: Scott Fedick´s Legacy as a Field School Director. Bethany Morrison. Presented at The 80th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco, California. 2015 ( tDAR id: 396235)
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Keywords
General
field schools
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Scott Fedick
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Yalahau
Geographic Keywords
Mesoamerica
Spatial Coverage
min long: -107.271; min lat: 12.383 ; max long: -86.353; max lat: 23.08 ;