Let’s Dig the High School: Rethinking Field School through Cross-Campus Collaboration in Moscow, Idaho

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "At Stake in the Quad: Archaeologies on/of Campus", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

During Fall 2019, the University of Idaho offered an eight-week methods course focused on surveying and excavating the grounds of a local high school in downtown Moscow, Idaho. In walking distance from UI's campus, Moscow High School offered a unique setting for affordable hands-on training during the regular semester schedule. The project also resulted in student research into local histories, increased public education and engagement, and fostered inter-institution collabboration and recruitment efforts. Now in its second field season, the MHS field school is an example of how local campus-based field work is rewriting traditional training models in the discipline

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for Historical Archaeology 2024   •
• At Stake in the Quad: Archaeologies on/of Campus

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