Since 1995, the Department has offered an annual summer field school in archaeology.

The course of instruction involves five weeks of intensive training in "how to do archaeology."

Past field school sites have included 1500-year-old Native American mound centers, late-18th-century-A.D. frontier forts, 19th-century slave cabins, and an early-mid-19th-century church.

Information on the Summer 2017 Archaeological and Ethnographic Field Schools is available through the links below:

• Summer 2017 Archaeological and Ethnographic Field Schools:
  • Archaeological Field School Brochure 2017
  • Archaeological Field School Information 2017
  • Ethnographic Field School Brochure 2017
  • Ethnographic Field School Information 2017
• Castalian Springs Project
• Sam Davis Slave Quarter
• Bledsoe's Fort
• Pinson Mounds
• Wynnewood Slave Quarter
• Dust Cave
• First Presbyterian Church
• Summer Ethnographic Field Schools (On occasion, the department offers an intensive field training course in ethnographic methods.)
  • 1998 -- Huatusco, State of Veracruz, Mexico
  • 2003 -- Gurupa, Brazil
    • Faculty Report