On Mon, 28 Aug 2000 10:30:29 +0100 "G.M.O.Owen" <[log in to unmask]>
writes:
>This is my first message to mailbase. I teach A Level archaeology and
>am looking for help and guidance re teaching plans text books and info
>on the personal study. My students are mainly adults who complete the
>course over one year.
>Thanks Sue Owen.
Dear Sue,
Enclosed please find our program in China. Perhaps your adult student
would be interested in joining us. If you decide to come, I could arrange
for you a program for 2002. It is impoortant to be introduced to the
Institute of Archaeology and other important learning while work with us.
Cordially,
ALFONZ
(Dr. Alfonz Lengyel)
FUDAN MUSEUM FOUNDATION
SINO-AMERICAN FIELD SCHOOL OF ARCHAEOLOGY
Archaeological Practicum at Xi'an Jiaotong University
July 3 to August 1, 2001
COURSES: (Given in English)
Archaeological Practicum (field work) (3 Cr.)
Chinese Art and Culture (3 Cr.)
The courses will be supplemented with guest lectures of Chinese
specialists. The program is co-sponsored by the Archaeological Research
Institute of Shaanxi Province. It is open for undergraduate or graduate
students, faculty members (colleges & high schools), high school seniors
and a limited number of interested adults. Participation is limited to
15.
After we received the down-payment of $ 200.00, the participants will
receive two books free of charge, c. 40 pages of archaeological study
material, and 60 questions which they should answer by reading M.
Sullivan, Arts of China, U.C Press, Berkeley, CA. The answers will due on
the arrival in Shanghai.
Downpayment: US$ 200.00
Participation Fee: $ 3,795.00
I f you fly on your own deduct $ 1,150.00 from the participation Fee
INCLUDING: Roundtrip from JFK.NY., Interior air travel from Shanghai to
Xi'an and from Xi'an to Beijing, tuition fees for 6 credits, room & board
(three meals per day, lodgement (double occupancy), excursions and tour (
Beijing, Shanghai and nearby areas).NOTE: Other drinks than tea, bottled
water and occasionally coffee, is not included ( Such as CocaCola,
PepsiCola, other soft drinks, beer, etc.) DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION: ASAP
till filled.
DOWN PAYMENT(FOR REGISTRASTION FEE):US $ 200 should be received with
application (refundable only if the program is cancelled). HALF OF
BALANCE FOR PARTICIPATION FEE, DUE:April 1, 2001. SECOND HALF DUE: upon
the arrival in China in cash (US Dollar bills), or Before May 15, 2001 by
Cashier's check payable to FUDAN MUSEUM FOUNDATION-SAFSA, and send to Dr.
Alfonz Lengyel c/o Fudan Museum Foundation 4206 - 73rd Terrace East,
Sarasota Fl.34243.
IMPORTANT NOTES
(1) Official transcript for transfer credits will be issued by Xi'an
Jiaotong University,. The acceptance of transfer credits should be
arranged by each applicants, prior to the departure, with the own
American school authorities.
(2) Participants are responsible for their own sickness, accident and
travel insurances.
(3) Consult with US Health Authorities about vacccination requirement in
China by visiting Shanghai, Xi'an, Beijing, and the vicinity.
PROFILE OF THE AMERICAN DIRECTOR
Dr. Alfonz Lengyel, PhD in Summa Cum Laude from the Institute of Art and
Archaeology, University of Paris (Sorbonne), France; BA & MA from San
Jose State College (University), California, USA.; Law Degree, from
Hungary; LLD (Hon Causa)
London, UK; Post Doctoral Study of Museology , Ecole du Louvre, Paris,
France. He has been teaching since 1961 in US, France (Paris), Germany
(Heidelberg), China (Shanghai and Xi?an). Directed excavations in SIRMIUM
( Smithsonian Project, near Belgrade, Yugoslavia); CARTHAGE ( UNESCO
project near Tunis, Tunisia; SIENA area (project of the Etruscan
Foundation, and the Institute of Mediterranean Archaeology); near XI?AN,
Shaanxi Province of China (project of SINO-AMERICAN FIELD SCHOOL OF
ARCHAEOLOGY - XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY)
>From 1987, Advisory Professor of Museology, Fudan University, Shanghai,
China. From 1988 Consulting Professor of Archaeology, Xi?an Jiaotong
University, Xi?an, China. From 1987 to 1991 member of the Advisory Board
of the US Department of Interior. Chairman of the Archaeology Committee
of the Board.
>From 1989 President of FUDAN MUSEUM FOUNDATION, Inc. (USA)
Member of: Michigan, New York Academies, the International Academy in
Paris, the Arpad Academy, Cleveland (Hungarian Academy abroad), and great
number of national and international professional organizations in the
area of Sarchaeology, Art History, and Museology, including the
International Council of Museums (ICOM-UNESCO) and its International
Committee for Archaeology and History Museums (ICMAH).
MENTIONED IN BIOGRAPHIES
Who?s Who in America Who's Who
in the World
Outstanding Educator in America Personalities
in America
International Register of Profiles
Contemporary Authors
Notable Americans in the Bicentennial Era
International Directory of Distinguished Leadership
FUDAN MUSEUM FOUNDATION
The Foundation is classified with the Section of 501(c)(3) of the IRS
Code as a publicly supported educational organization described in
Section 509(a)(1) and 170 (b)(1). It was incorporated in the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania in 1989 ( Reg. # 1017099/89).
ACCREDITATION
The program is accredited by the EDUCATION COMMISSION OF SHAANXI
PROVINCE, Xi?an, China, and the SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL ARCHAEOLOGISTS,
(SOPA-USA).
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F A C T S H E E T
FUDAN MUSEUM FOUNDATION
Sino-American Field School of Archaeology (SAFSA)
4206 - 73rd Terrace East, Sarasota, Fl 34243
T.& F: 941-351-34243--- E-mail: [log in to unmask]
In 1990, the Fudan Museum Foundation in collaboration with Xi=an Jiaotong
University, and the Archaeological Research institute of Shaanxi
Province, established the Sino-American
Field School of Archaeology. The Education Commission of Shaanxi
Province, China, and the Society of Professional Archaeologists, (USA),
accredited the school.
Since c. 1906 China was closed for foreign archaeologist, SAFSA was the
first foreign group which had a permit to excavate in Xi'an together with
Chinese archaeologists. Presently more foreign groups are excavating
under Chinese supervision. There are a great number of foreign
specialists on Chinese art but until 1990 none of them excavated in
China. Through our field school, the participants could establish under
the umbrella of SAFSA future contacts with leading Chinese archaeological
experts. In China every program should be attached to a UNIT. Our School
within Xi=an Jiaotong University is an unit. Our goal is to exchange
methodology and to teach the future generation of American or foreign
archaeologists who want to specialized or just gain an exposure in
Chinese archaeology. Therefore we are accepting a limited number of
interested adults.
Our program is an archaeological practicum, and not a spectacular
campaign. In China, except some monumental excavations, the concentration
is on salvage archaeology. We helped to unearth a late pre-historic
village from the matrimonial Yangshao culture. During other campaign we
unearthed great many built tombs from the Qin and Han Period. One tomb
was accidentally discovered in the perimeter of Xi=an Jiaotong
University, which dates back c.50 BC. On its barrel vault, it was painted
the first Chinese Sky-map which up to now was discovered.
From the Eastern Han period (c.50 AD), in a tomb of an
officer we discovered a child's secondary burial. The child died earlier
and reburied with the father. We helped also to unearth one of the
Treasuries of the First Emperor of China ( r.221-210 BC.). It was already
robbed and burned in antiquity.
In addition to field archaeological methodology, the participants are
studying the site conservation and preliminary restoration, in the
laboratory, which was given by the Germans. We are trying to persuade the
US Government to donate an earth resistivity station to the Shaanxi
Archaeology Institute in Xi=an.
The school welcome institutional affiliations. The affiliate institute
shall pledge to send one participant in each summer, and in return, would
get one place in the Advisory Council.
The basic principle of the school is not only the summer archaeological
practice, but also a good will gesture toward the Chinese people. Through
archaeological fieldwork, we want to build up a mutual respect and pave
the road of further peaceful and prosperous collaboration.
Dr.Alfonz Lengyel
Professor and American Director of SAFSA
SINO-AMERICAN FIELD SCHOOL OF ARCHAEOLOGY
Xi=an Jiaotong University, Xi=an, (Shaanxi) China.
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520 Archaeology Practicum (Field Work in Archaeology) 3 Cr.
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Dr. Alfonz Lengyel
I. Introduction to Archaeology
- The goal of archaeology in the past and present
- Types of archaeology
- Ethical considerations and legal aspects in archaeology
- Protection of cultural and natural heritages, including SOPA/ROPA=s
Guidelines and
Standards for Field Schools of Archaeology
- Application for excavation permits
II. National and International Services and Associations in USA and China
- Professional archaeological and its related national and international
associations
- US Federal archaeology: National Park Service (NPS), and Army Corps of
Engineers
- State Archeologists
- Arcaheology and Cultural Heritage Protection lelated US and Chinese
laws
III Preliminary Considerations and Analogy Research
- Historical, geographical and geological survey of the proposed site and
its environment
- Comperative study of ancient and contemporary sources
- Study of similar already excavated sites, reports and material
- Analogy research, in museums & private collections (nationally and
internationally),
related to the prospective site, and establish from it a
photo collection
- Collection of local ethnographical material: myths, popular beliefs or
traditions
IV. General Site Preparation
- Composition of archaeological support staff
- Selection of the site and determination of its excavation purpose and
method
- Determine the strategy and planning of the survey
- Topographical & geological map-research
- Site mapping and sketch map for visitors
- Various field surveys, as well as sampling methods and recordings
- Earth resistivity (prospecting) methods and records
- Direct site and aerial photo methods and records
- Measuring or calculating distances and elevations
- Various measuring eqipments, and compass/pocket transits
- Leveling equipments, symbols, signs, and records
- Establishment a grid system in a coordinata. Leveling the stakes.
- Measuring depth from stakes related to the datum point
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V. Excavation
- Plan of the Field Director
- Different supervisory functions
- Excavation tools and equipments
- Different methods of grid excavation
- Startigraphy and its symbols
- Various site records
- Numbering of architectural features
- Consideration of excavating burials and its related professional ethics
, including the
Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of
1991.
- Decently reburial of the analyzed bone material
- Skeletal analysis, (DNA), recording and drawing
- Excavation of caves and rock-cut-tombs
- Underwater excavations
- Recording of rock carvings (petroglyphs), and paintings
- Central field inventory
VI.Conservation and Transportation of Archaeological material
- Initial cleaning and treatment in the field
- Preliminary conservation/restoration of ceramic, glass, metal, stone,
leather, wood,
amber, pearl, ivory, bone, mosaic, wallpainting and
architectural remains
- Tools, materials, chemicals for conservation and restoration in situ
- Packing and transportation
- Site museum and its registration methods
- Site laboratory, equipment and management
VII. Analysis
- Sampling and method of quantitative analysis, and typology
- Computer guided analysis for stone and other material
- Pottery analysis: content, durability, viscosity, finishing methods,
conditions and Decorations
- Pottery typology
- Technical terms of description of various pottery styles and parts
- Analysis of other specific ceramics such as:terra-cotta human or animal
figures, floor and roof tiles, miniaturized
agricultural/household and other painted or unpainted objects
- Analysis of other material such as : metal, textile, ivory, amber,
glass, paper (papyrus), shell, bone, and wood
VIII. Field Drafting and Photography
- Drafting equipments
- Drafting of site grids, as well as architectural and skeletal remains
- Photographic equipment and site photo laboratory
- Drawing and photo log-book
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IX. Dating Methods
- Carbon 14; Potasium - Argon
- Pollen analysis
- Shell dating
- Thermoluminescence; Fision Track,
- Archeo and paleo-magnetism
- Parchment, glass, obsydian hydration and bone dating
X. Report Writing
Preliminary Report
- General information
- New information
- Future plans
- Bibliography
Final Report
- General Information
- New information
- Map of site
- Stratigraphical information
- General description of findings
- The report of various scientific experts
- Detailed description of each phase and structure
- Evaluation and interpretation of findings and scientific review
- Conclusion
- Bibliographical, archivical and museological references
- Index
XI. Site Protection
- During excavation
- After excavation
XII. Appendix
- Definition of terms and abbreviations used in site notes and final
report
- Maps, plates, drawings and other illustrations
- Statistical data
- Curriculum Vitae of the major participants
- Copies of permits and other official documents
- Others
XIII. Bibliography
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