The Use of Legacy Collections as Education Opportunities for Undergraduate Student Internships

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The Center for Archaeological Research (CAR) at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) offers semester long internships to undergraduate students from UTSA’s Anthropology Department. The internship program offers students an opportunity to gain hands-on experience in laboratory methods, independent research, curation standards, and collection management. Students work on CAR’s legacy collections, i.e., older projects in need of rehabilitation, under the supervision of archaeological professionals. This work is mutually beneficial, resulting in rehabilitated collections for CAR and experience with real-world applications, career development, and skill acquisition for the students. Based on individual interest, each student completes a final project involving a rehabilitated collection. This poster provides summaries and displays data gathered by CAR student interns from projects completed on the Baker Cave collection.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 38009.0