Making the Most of Field Schools: Education, Training, and Experiential Learning in Historical Archaeology

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This is an abstract from the "Reflections, Practice, and Ethics in Historical Archaeology" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

In the spirit of this year’s conference theme, this paper reflects on the long-standing tradition of field schools. How are historical archaeology field schools similar to-- and how are they different from-- other type of archaeological field schools? Drawing from cumulative quantitative and qualitative data collected by the Institute for Field Research, the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, and the Archaeological Institute of America, we examine several short- and long-term trends in field research and pedagogy. We are particularly interested in the history, impact, and future of historical archaeology field schools, including their influence on methods and data-collection in the field; the funding promise they hold in times of shrinking budgets for research; and the need to embrace students not just as potential future academics, but as future supporters of basic scientific research.

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