Program Description
Samshvilde Summer School is an intensive three-week course in basic archaeological and bioarchaeological practice. Trainees will have the unique opportunity to excavate Samshvilde’s royal medieval citadel (11th-13th cent. AD) and Sioni cemetery. In this course, trainees will learn a variety of methodological skills and gain hands-on experience necessary for becoming a professional archaeologist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Training includes:
– Field work
– Post-excavation finds processing
– Seminars on archaeology and Georgian culture<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At the end of this course trainees will have experience in:
– Archaeological and grave context excavation
– Documentation and archiving
– Artefact conservation
– Scientific photography
– Technical drawing
– Basic osteology<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Program dates: July 15th to August 6th, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Prerequisites: Because this is course aimed at beginners (undergraduate students, interested laypersons), applicants are NOT<\/strong> required to have previous experience in archaeology or bioarchaeology. *We are especially interested in applicants with a background in zooarchaeology or human osteology for a personal project. If you are interested in this please specify on your application form.*<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Program fee: 4,750 GEL (2,330 CAD) Serious candidates are invited to read the information document below in order to get all necessary information our the course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Please download, fill and send your application form to info “at” samshvilde. ge before February 22nd, 2019<\/strong>. First come, first served!<\/p>\n\n\n\n For more information, visit Program DescriptionSamshvilde Summer School is an intensive three-week course in basic archaeological and bioarchaeological practice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-study"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5534"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5537,"href":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5534\/revisions\/5537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
You must be fit to do light physical labor, be proficient in English, and have an interest in archaeology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This fee includes transport between Tbilisi airport and the dig house, meals and accommodation, 2 day trips (locations to be determined), teaching materials and field equipment, seminars, 2 nights of lodging in Tbilisi and a certification (upon completion of the program)
It does NOT include airfare or insurance<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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