[Anthsoc] Fwd: [Safaannounce-l] FW: SAHRA Field School, January 2012

[David Lubell]

For those of you who might find this interesting.

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Subject: 	[Safaannounce-l] FW: SAHRA Field School, January 2012
Date: 	Tue, 3 Jan 2012 08:37:31 -0000
From: 	<paul.lane at york.ac.uk>
To: 	<safaannounce-l at mailman.rice.edu>



Please find below a forwarded message from ASAPA -- it may appeal to 
some of you!

Apologies for cross posting & best wishes to all for 2012,

Paul

Paul Lane

*From:*Louisa Hutten [mailto:louisa.hutten at gmail.com]
*Sent:* 03 January 2012 08:05
*To:* louisa.hutten at uct.ac.za
*Subject:* SAHRA Field School, January 2012

Dear ASAPA members,

Please find attached an invitation from SAHRA Maritime and Underwater 
Cultural Heritage Unit regarding a field school that they will be 
hosting in January.

Best Wishes for 2012

Louisa Hutten



Dear Ms. Hutten,

I hope this letter finds you well.

I'm writing to you on behalf of Jon Sharfman from SAHRA's Maritime and 
Underwater Cultural Heritage Unit regarding the Field School we will be 
hosting in January.

In a nutshell, the Field School is the culmination of the first phase of 
the Unit's Maritime Archaeology Development Program (MADP). We have been 
conducting training for students, industry insiders and private 
individuals for two years, based on the curriculum developed by the 
Nautical Archaeological Society (NAS). As the Program progressed, we 
have been focusing the training on students who are interested in 
history, archaeology, heritage management and related fields. Earlier 
this year, we hosted a Field School in collaboration with the Robben 
Island Museum (RIM), the Centre for International Heritage Activities 
(CIE) and the University of Leiden (both from the Netherlands). Building 
on the success of that Field School and the lessons learned, we are once 
again going to be meeting on Robben Island in January and would like to 
invite ASAPA to pass our invitation on to interested students.

The Field School will run from January 16 - February 5 2012 and is open 
to all students, divers and non-divers, who have a background or an 
interest in archaeology, history and heritage management. The course 
will be fully accredited by the NAS and internationally recognised 
experts will be facilitating the various modules, including in-situ and 
artefact conservation (Vicki Richards and Jon Carpenter from the Western 
Australia Maritime Museum), archival research (Robert Pathesius, 
University of Leiden and Director of the CIE) and GIS (Peter Holt, 3H 
Consulting, developer of the Site Recorder software).

The students will be grouped according to their interests and abilities. 
The land (non-diving) team will be examining various historically 
significant sites on Robben Island and survey the slave / convict 
gardens to the north of the Island. The sea (diving) team will be 
mapping the Barrel Wreck off Dolphin Beach near Blouberg and excavating 
test trenches under the guidance of Jon and Jaco Boshoff from Iziko. The 
collaboration between SAHRA and the Iziko Museums also means that 
students will have the opportunity to work with various collections 
housed at the Museum, including the Birkenhead Collection. The team will 
be housed on Robben Island and all catering expenses will  be covered by 
SAHRA.

We are aware that UCT and other institutions run their own field schools 
during this time period and it is an unfortunate clash, but the timing 
was dictated by weather since Jan/Feb is the best time of year for 
diving in Table Bay and a quiet time for RIM. Students are welcome to 
participate for as long or as short as they are able, to fit in with 
other commitments.

Attached is an invitation we have put together for students. We would be 
most grateful if you could circulate it to ASAPA members so that they 
may pass it on to students whom they think may be interested.

This has turned out to be a much longer message than I intended, I hope 
I have covered all the relevant points. If you have any questions or 
would like more detail about the MADP or the Field School, please let me 
know.

Thank you for your consideration, and kind regards,

Sophie Winton






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