Field Study
University of Oklahoma Summer 2012 Archaeological Field School in Florida
Come excavate ancient shell mounds in Florida! OU will have an archaeological field school on the St. John's River in northeast Florida from July 6 through August 12, 2012. A written application is due in February. The $550 lab fee covers room and board, but not transportation. For more information, please contact Dr. Asa Randall. You can download a copy of the flyer here.
Previous Field Schools
The 2011 OU and OSU archaeological field school was at the Bryson-Paddock site. The field school was under the sponsorship of Oklahoma State University, the University of Oklahoma, and the Oklahoma Archeological Survey. The site is in north-central Oklahoma along the Arkansas River near Kaw Lake. Bryson-Paddock is an eighteenth-century Wichita village that was visited by French traders. It is one of the earliest Wichita sites that had extensive contact with Europeans. Excavations have been conducted at this village and a nearby, sister village in 1926, 1974/1975, and 2003-2009. The site is noted for mounds containing trash that includes metal and glass trade materials as well as native artifacts and features such as house patterns, hearths, pits, and fortification ditches.
The 2010 OU archeological field school took place at the Ramos Creek site, which was occupied by the prehistoric ancestors of the Caddo between AD 1200 and 1500. Caddo Prehistory in Oklahoma blogs about the excavation. In 2011 students had the opportunity to participate in an Advanced Field Opportunity at the Badgerhole Paleoindian Bison Kill Site in Northwest Oklahoma.