Dear colleagues,
The new archaeological science
center at the Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology, the
Center for the Analysis of Archaeological Materials (CAAM), is offering
a series of intensive short courses for graduate students, scholars,
and contract archaeologists beginning this summer.
Intensive Course in Field Archaeobotany
Our five-day course will focus on the fundamentals of field archaeobotany. The daily schedule will replicate the
activities and decisions of a field archaeobotanist in order to familiarize
participants with the responsibilities they will encounter on an archaeological
project. Course lectures will educate participants on how to choose and
implement appropriate sampling strategies, and case studies will be used to
explore best-practice techniques for the recovery of macrobotanical remains,
phytoliths, and starch grains. Hands-on activities will include learning
how to set up a small field lab and how to build a recycling hand-pump flotation
system. Participants will then process flotation samples and work to team-sort
heavy fraction. We will also spend time practicing microbotanical sampling
techniques with experimental artifacts from the CAAM lab.
Dates: Monday, May 22 - Friday, May 26, 2017; 9am-5pm
Course instructor: Dr. Chantel White, Teaching Specialist for Archaeobotany
Location: Penn Museum, CAAM, Philadelphia, PA
Course fees: $900
With kind regards,
Chantel White and the CAAM Team--
