Archaeological Field and Laboratory Methods II
Instructor: Peter Peregrine
Date: TBA
Early-Bird Registration Fee: $1,050 (Before TBA)
Regular Registration: $1,100 (After TBA)
Includes on-campus lodging and meals
This workshop introduces methods of archaeological excavation and basic procedures used to clean and stablize archaelogical materials. Workshop participants will engage in excavations on the Campbell Center campus and prepare the excavated materials for analysis. Archaeological recordkeeping and collections management are introduced.
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INSTRUCTOR BIO:
Peter N. Peregrine came to anthropology after completing an undergraduate degree in English. He found anthropology's social scientific approach to understanding humans more appealing than the humanistic approach he had learned as an English major. He undertook an ethnohistorical study of the relationship between Jesuit missionaries and Native American peoples for his master's degree and realized that he needed to study archaeology to understand the cultural interactions experienced by Native Americans prior to contact with the Jesuits. While working on his Ph.D. at Purdue University, Peter Peregrine did research on the prehistoric Mississippian cultures of the eastern United States. He found that interactions between groups were common and had been shaping Native American cultures for centuries. Native Americans approached contact with the Jesuits simply as another in a long string of intercultural exchanges. He also found that relatively little research had been done on Native American interactions and decided that comparative research was a good place to begin examining the topic. He has since done fieldwork in England and Syria, and museum work in Kenya, China, and Japan exploring the impact cross-cultural interactions have on the peoples involved. He has also conducted numerous cross-cultural studies using ethnographic materials. Peter Peregrine is currently professor of the anthropology at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin. He serves as research associate for the Human Relations Area Files at Yale University, and is president of the Society for Anthropological Sciences. He continues to do archaeological research, and to teach anthropology and archaeology to undergraduate students.