[Anthsoc] More field school opportunities

[Anthropology Society]

Hey everyone,

For anyone interested, below are a couple programs for developing research
skills and gaining field experience.

Cheers,

AnthSoc



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Dear Colleagues –

I am pleased to announce that we are now accepting applications for the
Summer Institute in Museum Anthropology (SIMA), a research training
initiative launched in 2009 by the Smithsonian Department of Anthropology
with support from the National Science Foundation.
SIMA is an intensive four-week training program that teaches graduate
students how to use museum collections in research, incorporating
Smithsonian collections as an integral part of their anthropological
training. Support from the Cultural Anthropology Program at NSF covers full
tuition and living expenses for 12 students each summer.
Please help us get the word out on this program.

Where: Dept of Anthropology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC
When: June 28 – July 23, 2010
Application deadline: March 1, 2010

Full information including application instructions and dates is available
at http://anthropology.si.edu/summerinstitute.

Candace Greene
Director, Summer Institute in Museum Anthropology
Ethnologist, Collections and Archives Program
Department of Anthropology
National Museum of Natural History
Smithsonian Institution

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Dear Sir/Madame,

It is my great pleasure to inform you about the 12th  Field School in
Mortuary Archaeology which will be held in Drawsko, Poland, in summer 2010.
If you have students interested in excavating human remains, we would be
grateful for letting them know about this opportunity.

The post-medieval, skeletal cemetery at Drawsko, Poland (16-17 centuries AD)
provides a unique opportunity for students to practice bioarchaeology  by
learning archaeological excavation techniques and working with human
osteological material. To date more than 110 burials have been excavated,
and the skeletal collection includes various evidence of traumatic injury,
infectious, degenerative and genetic disease, nutritional deficiency, as
well as atypical lesions that have yet to be identified.

At the site students are allowed to excavate burials by themselves getting
hands-on experience.  The professional supervision is provided by the
international team of instructors from Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan,
Poland, State University of New York, Oneonta, USA and Slavia Foundation,
Lednica, Poland. Excavated bones serve as reference material in osteology
courses worth 6 academic credits. The language of the Fieldschool is
English.

Please find attached a poster of the 12th Field School in Mortuary
Archaeology. We will be very honored if you post it on the message board of
your Department and spread information about the Field School among the
students.

You can get more info about this project either at www.slavia.org or by
contacting me directly.

Thank you for your time and attention,

Marek Polcyn
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Dr. Marek Polcyn
Slavia Project Co-ordinator
First Piasts Museum
Dziekanowice 32
62-261 Lednogora, Poland
tel.: + 48614274968
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