[OR_Archaeology] A few spots left for Fort Vancouver public archaeology field school

[Doug_Wilson at nps.gov]

Exploring the Roots of Diversity in the Far Northwest: The Public
Archaeology Field School at Fort Vancouver National Historic Site

Tuesday – Saturday, June 14 – July 30, 2011


Portland State University, Washington State University Vancouver, the
National Park Service, Northwest Cultural Resources Institute, and the Fort
Vancouver National Trust are pleased to announce a field school in
historical archaeology at Fort Vancouver National Historic Site and Lewis
and Clark National Park. The program will introduce the methods and
theories of fieldwork in historical archaeology. Students will participate
in all aspects of field and laboratory work: laying out units, excavation
by shovel and trowel, mapping, drawing, photography, and cleaning,
identifying, and analyzing artifacts. The season will also include lectures
by guest speakers and staff.  The National Park Service and its partners
are committed to sharing cultural resources and preservation values with
the public. On a rotating basis, students will discuss the field school
activities with visitors, interpreting the significance of the site and the
educational purposes of the project.


Fort Vancouver National Historic Site is an unparalleled archaeological
laboratory, comprising the remains of Fort Vancouver, the ca.1825-1860
regional headquarters and supply depot for the Hudson’s Bay Company, and
Vancouver Barracks, the first (ca. 1849-2010) permanent U.S. Army post and
command center in the Pacific Northwest.


This year’s field school will explore Fort Vancouver’s multicultural
Village (also known as “Kanaka Village”).  This colonial village was the
largest settlement in the Pacific Northwest in the 1830s and 1840s.  It
contained people from all over the world and the Pacific Northwest,
including Native Hawaiians, African Americans, the Métis, and people of
many different American Indian tribes.  The field school will provide a
means to recapture the early history of multiculturalism in the Pacific
Northwest while engaging the modern Portland/Vancouver area in the unique
history of their closest National Park site.


For one week during the latter portion of the course, the school will move
to Lewis and Clark National Park to conduct survey on new park lands.


For more information and an application, please go to:
http://www.nps.gov/fova/historyculture/2011-public-archaeology-field-school.htm


Applications are due no later than May 6, 2011.

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Douglas C. Wilson, Ph.D., Director
Northwest Cultural Resources Institute
Fort Vancouver National Historic Site
612 East Reserve Street
Vancouver, Washington 98661
Phone: (360) 816-6251
Cell: (360) 921-5241
Fax:  (360) 816-6363