Sul Ross students ‘dig’ summer archaelogy class Jul 19, 2008
ALPINE This summer, six Sul Ross State University students enrolled in an archaeology class and the group excavated in a rockshelter on the 02 Ranch, south of Alpine. The purpose of the class was to provide students with the opportunity to get hands-on experience with archaeological work in the field, and the rockshelter proved to be a good training ground. (Odessa American, TX)
Ancient well reveals gold Mar 7, 2008
Halbirt teaches an archaeology class at First Coast Technical Institute, and many of his former students buzzed around the three digs sifting dirt for artifacts. Elizabeth Gessner and Janet Fisher dusted off what used to be a brass shoe buckle. (The St. Augustine Record)
Digging through a 250-year history Jun 7, 2007
The students are members of the field archaeology class and historic preservation certification program at Northern Virginia Community College ... David Clark, executive director and principal investigator for the Loudoun Archaeological Foundation Inc. and instructor for the archaeology class, said the investigations will reveal a lot about the daily life of people in Loudoun's 250-year history. (The Burke Times, VA)
Maya experts unite to raise money for Flagler students May 21, 2007
"I looked for the best in the field and contacted them, and I got only one person to refuse," said Saunders, who also spearheaded Flagler's first archaeology class three years ago. The concept of holding an academic conference of this sort is rare in the United States, said Ben Thompson, education and outreach coordinator for the Archaeological Institute of America. (Daytona Beach News Journal)
Students really 'dig' archaeology class Nov 26, 2006
Sunday 26 November, 2006. Teacher Jason Baker's 11th-grade world history class took part earlier this month in an archaeological dig for replicated artifacts. (NEPA News, PA)
Quiet work: Norwalk resident lays the foundations for cemetery restoration Nov 9, 2006
Westmoreland said he was taking an archaeology class at Cornell that covered colonial gravestones and recognized many of the designs from the cemetery at St. Paul's. The oldest surviving tombstone dates to 1740 at the graveyard, where 11 to 24 Colonial soldiers from the Revolutionary War are buried, he said. (Stamford Advocate)
Around the Valley Sep 8, 2006
MONTROSE Registration is due Sept. 15 for a two-day avocational archaeology class on "Research Design and Report Writing," to be held Sept. 23-24 in the conference room of Alpine Archaeological Consultants, 900 S. Townsend Ave. The two sessions will meet from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. To enroll, send a check for 12, payable to the Colorado Historical Society, to Marcia Coman, 912 Heather Lane, Montrose, CO 81401. For more information, call 249-3479. (Montrose Daily Press, CO)
James Monroe grad dug Athens Aug 24, 2006
It was an archaeology class and we, the students getting six credits and a tan, were searching for evidence of a small academy that predated the college on the back of the current campus. Compared to those ruins, which were a few hundred years old, the work that Adam Janney of Stafford County did this summer was downright ancient. (Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star, VA)
