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Dear All, You, or someone you know, may be interested in a unique itinerant field school run out of the College of Architecture here at TTU, which combines anthropology, art, archaeology, and architecture. Six thousand miles of overland travel and camping for two months in the American Southwest with an aim to experience major art monuments and sites, and expand our understanding of human land interactions. The deadline has just been extended to April 1. Details are pasted below. Chris Witmore //////////////// *Land Arts of the American West* at Texas Tech University is recruiting students in all disciplines to participate in a transdisciplinary field program examining the evolutionary interaction between human actions and landscape formation. The program leverages two months of immersive field experience as a primary pedagogic agent to support research that open horizons of perception, probes depths of inquiry, and advances understanding of human impacts shaping the environment. Investigating earthworks or land art is a way of mapping the intersection of geomorphology and human construction. Earthworks begin with the shape of the land and extend through the complex social and ecological processes that create landscape. Including the full array of human activity marking the planet, from petroglyphs to pipelines, roads, dwellings, monuments, and traces of those actions, earthworks show us who we are. Applications remain open with admission review planned to conclude by April 1. Information available at https://landarts.org/category/admissions/ or by contacting program director Chris Taylor at [log in to unmask] [image: 20150904_171325_landarts_cjt.jpg] Walking Spiral Jetty, Great Salt Lake, Utah, 2015. //////////////// ~~~ chris taylor ~ landarts.org ~ 806-834-1589 <(806)%20834-1589> Texas Tech University ~ College of Architecture ~ LUBBOCK Lubbock Scapes Collective <http://lubbockscapescollective.org> ~ member -- Christopher Witmore Associate Professor Department of Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures Texas Tech University https://www.depts.ttu.edu/classic_modern/classics/people/Witmore.php <http://humanitieslab.stanford.edu/ChristopherWitmore/Home> -------------------------- contemp-hist-arch is a list for news and events in contemporary and historical archaeology, and for announcements relating to the CHAT conference group. ------- For email subscription options see: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/archives/contemp-hist-arch.html ------- Visit the CHAT website for more information and for future meeting dates: http://www.contemp-hist-arch.ac.uk --------------------------