Elden Pueblo Announces Workshops and Field Schools

Lab Techniques
Dates: June 18-22, 2012
Time: 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. daily
This class deals with the methods and materials used in processing, preserving, cataloging, and storing of artifacts, with particular attention paid to ceramics and lithics. We will be working on cataloging work done over the years at Elden Pueblo.
Program Fee: $100/week

Ruins Stabilization Field School
This field school provides one week of a two week certification program.
Dates: consecutive weekends July 28-29, 2012
Time: 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. August 3-5, 2012
Stabilization field school covers the basic information and field skills needed to stabilize and reconstruct stone walls. Maintaining authentic architectural design, preservation challenges and site interpretation issues relating to stabilization are covered.
Program fee: $150/ 5 day session

Mapping Field School
Date: July 13–15, & Aug 11 & 12, 2012
Time: 8:00 am to 5:00 pm
The purpose of this course is to provide the basic academic and field skill to permit the avocational archaeologist the ability to undertake most mapping programs used in survey and excavation projects .More time is spent in the field for this course so that students can gain experience using such equipment as Electronic Distance Measurement (EDM), compass, tape, transit, and theodolite. The object is to produce a map of a site using other maps, aerial photographs, and measurements made in the field.
Program fee: $150/week

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