University of Missouri-St. Louis • College of Arts & Sciences • Continuing Education |
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Archaeological Field School May 18-June 5, 2009 |
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The University of Missouri-St. Louis offers a unique opportunity this summer to students majoring in Anthropology or those just fascinated by archaeological digs. A three-week field school will be held at Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site, once the largest pre-Columbian settlement north of Mexico. Nearly 70 mounds of the original 120 are currently preserved in this 2,200-acre World Heritage Site. More than 50 million cubic feet of earth were moved in construction of the mounds. This field school will focus on Mound 34, located east of Monks Mound. The students' efforts will concentrate on further defining a copper workshop area located during the 2007 and 2008 field seasons. This is the first evidence of a copper workshop at Cahokia and possibly in North America. This research may have important implications for the interpretation of the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex. This work will complement an ongoing research project whose primary goals have been to relocate excavations conducted in the 1950s and remap them using methods not available during the earlier investigations. This project has yielded large quantities of artifacts, including copper, marine shells, drilled shark's teeth, and finely made pottery. UMSL students will work alongside students from Washington University and Northwestern University, and Susanna Bailey will direct the UMSL field school. On-campus housing is available.
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