[OR_Archaeology] Public Archaeology Field School at Fort Vancouver

[Doug_Wilson at nps.gov]

Exploring the Northwest’s Colonial Fort Vancouver: THE PUBLIC
ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELD SCHOOL

At Fort Vancouver National Historic Site, Tuesday – Saturday, June 19 –
August 4, 2012


Portland State University, Washington State University Vancouver, and the
National Park Service 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 includes 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, including 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 in
the Pacific Northwest.


This year’s field school will continue explorations in 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 around the world and the Pacific
Northwest, including Native Hawaiians, Scots, French Canadians, 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
Colonial Fort Vancouver, a place of multiculturalism in the Pacific
Northwest, while engaging the modern Portland/Vancouver area in the unique
history of their closest National Park site.  This year will also continue
the recording of baseline condition of grave markers in the Old City
Cemetery.  This partnership project is helping to train students in
cemetery recording and analysis, while collecting information on condition
to better manage this threatened historical property.


FOR MORE INFORMATION AND TO APPLY GO TO:
http://www.anthropology.pdx.edu/field%20school/field_school.html


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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