Courses
Archaeology Field School at Notre Dame
Archaeology Field School
“Public Archaeology at Collier Lodge”
July 5 to 22, 2010
Learn and experience archaeology by spending three weeks on a dig.
ANTH 35588 - 3 credits
Notre Dame Summer Session 2010
The Collier Lodge site is located in Porter County, northeastern Indiana (60 miles east of Chicago). It has produced evidence of prehistoric and historic occupations from as early as 8,000 B.C. up to the recent past. The site is named for the Collier Lodge, a former hunting lodge that still stands. For millennia, people used the site to exploit the rich resources of the great Kankakee Marsh, an enormous wetland that was one of the dominant environmental zones of the region before it was drained at the start of the twentieth century.
The Collier Lodge project is a cooperative venture between the University of Notre Dame and the Kankakee Valley Historical Society. Each year, professionals and volunteers work together to explore the site and its abundant and diverse archaeological record of life on the edge of the marsh.
For more information about the Collier Lodge project, please visit:
2010 Notre Dame Archaeology Field School Information
You will learn about:
- Geophysical survey and remote sensing
- The basics of field archaeology
- The archaeology of eastern North America
- Prehistoric and historic American culture
- Careers in archaeology
- Public Archaeology
Continuing Notre Dame students can register through insideND beginning March 21, 2010. Non-Notre Dame students can apply to the Office of the Registrar (http://registrar.nd.edu/registration_summer.shtml) at any time.
For more information, please contact:
Professor Mark Schurr
Department of Anthropology
University of Notre Dame
Phone: 219-631-7638
Email: Mark.R.Schurr.1@nd.edu
Or visit: http://www.nd.edu/~mschurr