[OR_Archaeology] Deadline Approaching for NPS/PSU/WSUV Public Archaeology Field School at Fort Vancouver and Fort Astoria

[Doug_Wilson at nps.gov]

Applications for the joint Portland State University, Washington State
University Vancouver, and the National Park Service Public Archaeology
Field School at Fort Vancouver and Fort Astoria are due at the end of next
week.  Please submit no later than May 4, 2012.

About the field school:  The field school 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 Metis, and people of many different American Indian tribes.
The field school will provide a means to recapture the early history of
Colonial Fort Vancouve,r a place of multiculturalism in the Pacific
Northwest, while engaging the modern Portland/Vancouver area in the unique
history of their closes 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 test excavations at Fort
Astoria/Fort George, a National Historic Landmark Property related to the
terrestrial Fur Trade and the history of the War of 1812 in the West.

For more information and an application please go to on of the following
web pages:

http://www.nps.gov/fova/historyculture/public-archaeology-field-school.htm

or

http://www.anthropology.pdx.edu/fieldschool.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