Principal Faculty: Professor S. Shackley
UC Berkeley Course Listing: Anthropology 134A.2, Summer 2009

Summer Fees: UC Undergraduate $1,524.00, UC Graduate $2,136.00, Visiting $1,740.00

($600 Course Materials Fee - subject to change)

This summer's field school is designed to familiarize students with an archaeological view of quarry (stone procurement) sites and stone tool technology in the North American Southwest, by a field examination of obsidian, chert, and other volcanic sources used for the last 13,000 years. Through in-the-field classroom and field sessions, students will learn field collection strategies, sampling, mapping the secondary distribution of sources, geological and topographical map reading, and an introduction to the identification of rocks in the field. The course will involve a week or more dry camping in the Jemez Mountains, northern New Mexico, and other trips from the base in Albuquerque, New Mexico. A number of strenuous day-long hikes into stone sources will require good fitness and ability to cope with very warm weather and the potentially stormy Southwestern monsoon. Housing will be in the spacious Redondo Village apartments on the campus of the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, and part of the time we will be camping at Bandelier National Monument in northern New Mexico. Transportation in the field provided. Field visits to Paleoindian and Pueblo period sites, and lectures by earth scientists and archaeologists from UNM and Los Alamos National Lab, and the New Mexico Museum of Natural History included. Weekends free to explore the great American Southwest on your own.

To apply for this field school please download the application, fill it out and return it to Prof. Shackley at: Department of Anthropology, 232 Kroeber Hall, University of California, Berkeley CA 94710-3710