The 2025 Archaeological Field School will run during the second seven week session of summer 2025, June 30 - August 16.
Students can earn upper-division credits and experience the thrill of finding artifacts in our region that have been lost for centuries. A field school prepares students for crew jobs in the government and private sectors.
Archaeology is basically a series of techniques and methods for finding and recovering information about past peoples. At UMD, we employ these methods and techniques in dealing with questions about past behavior.
The field school is designed to train students in a number of methods and techniques which are employed in the field and the laboratory, and to acquaint the student with an even broader range of specialized analysis for recovering information about the lifeways of past peoples. Participating students will receive training in site survey and locational procedures, excavation strategy and methods, site mapping and field recording procedures, and laboratory processing and basic classification analysis. Students will also be exposed to data collection techniques for specialized analysis in the laboratory, should such remains be encountered on our sites.
2025 Archaeological Field School Application
Important Information:
Students register for ANTH 4696 (Field Research in Archaeology); permission of the instructor is required prior to registration and will be granted AFTER review of the application form.
For best chances of admission to the course, return the application by April 1, 2025; later submissions will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
For more information please contact Sue Mulholland, [email protected], 218-355-0153.