Get Hands-on with UNB’s New Archaeology Summer Program
Are you interested in learning about people, cultures, and civilizations of the very distant past? Do the tools, objects, and artifacts they left behind fascinate you? If so, register for UNB’s Archaeology Summer Program, offered by the UNB Anthropology Department in partnership with the College of Extended Learning.
In Summer Session 2014, a four-week Archaeology Summer Program will be offered. Enrollment is open to current students, including those entering their first year university and adult learners with an interest in Archaeology.
The unique program will include applied teaching and learning methods to give students the knowledge and tools they need to learn more about archaeology. Divided into two 2-week sessions, the camp will include introductory to more advanced levels of knowledge. Students will engage in experimental and community-based archaeology projects through collaboration, teamwork, mentoring, and research.
Experience an excavation site
Along with class time, students will get to practice advanced excavation techniques on the UNB campus and piece together an understanding of how past activities create patterning and traces in the ground. These hands-on experiences are complemented by field trips, laboratory visits, and guest lecturers from archaeology experts.
Earn credits while you excavate
Whether you’re looking for an elective course for your program or simply want to learn about archaeology, this program is designed with you in mind.
Open to all incoming first year or current UNB students, as well as members of the public and upper-level undergraduate students, the archaeology summer program gives you six credit hours that can be used toward a program of study.
Learn from Mi’kmaq and Wolastoqiyik Elders
To foster a deeper understanding of the relationship between communities and research, Elders from Mi’kmaq and Wolastoqiyik communities will act as mentors, telling stories and teaching traditional ways. Some of these lessons include setting up wigwams, cooking food over campfires, making baskets, and more.
