ARCS2060 Archaeology field school 2023

EXPRESSION OF INTEREST from Undergraduate students studying Archaeology at the School of Social Science

The Archaeology Field School will run for one week from Sunday 18 June until Sunday 25 June 2023.

The one-week field school will involve a combination of academic study and field practice. Providing training in landscape archaeology, it will focus on understanding how people have engaged with landscapes over the past, and how these landscapes have been modified through natural and cultural processes. The focus will be on documenting Aboriginal cultural landscapes on the Macleay Valley of the mid North Coast of New South Wales. The Clybucca Historic precinct contains the largest temperate midden complex in Australia, and we will remap these sites to help better understand their significance with the aim of laying the initial groundwork to undertake a longer term research project. A heavy emphasis of the course will be working closely with Aboriginal Traditional Owners from the Macleay Valley, particularly the Ngambaa Traditional Owners. Students will develop field and investigative skills that will enable them to record and interpret the archaeological record and to ultimately tell the story of the landscape.

Please click here for further information about submitting an EOI – due date is 14th April 2023.