Bioarchaeology Field School
As an instructor, I've been committed to providing ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV students with hands-on opportunities to work in the field and in the lab with human remains from archaeological sites. In 2015 and 2016, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV students travelled to Portugal, during the summer, for a "lab school" at the Municipal Museum of ³§²¹²Ô³Ù²¹°ùé³¾. At this museum students volunteered their time to assist in the long term curation (cleaning, labelling, cattaloging) of archaeological human remains recovered from sites in the city of ³§²¹²Ô³Ù²¹°ùé³¾, under my supervision and of the municipal archaeologist - and long time friend - António Matias. Click here for more information and a photo gallery for the ³§²¹²Ô³Ù²¹°ùé³¾ bioarchaeology "lab school".
In the summer of 2018 I offered the first edition of the Portugal Bioarchaeology Field School, which took place in Cacela-Velha located in the Southern Coast of Portugal (Algarve). The field school is part of a larger archaeological project, and the excavation of the site is under the scientific coordination of Dr. Cristina Tété Garcia (DRCAlg/CEAACP), Maria João Valente (UAlg/CEAACP) and myself (¶¡ÏãÔ°AV). The field schooll is also the result of an international partnership between ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV-¶¡ÏãÔ°AV in Canada, and DRCAlg - Direcção Regional de Cultura do Algarve, UAlg - Universidade do Algarve, CEAACP — Centro de Estudos de Arqueologia, Artes e Ciências do Património, and the Municipality of Vila Real de Santo António in Portugal. More details about the 2018 field school and a photo gallery can be found here.
The 2020 field school was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The 2022 field school is set to happen between June 11 and July, and will return to the Algarve, after students spending a week in ³§²¹²Ô³Ù²¹°ùé³¾ in preparation for field work. Click for more information.
