May 12-29, 2008. Shumla School. Investigate and record rock art in the Lower Pecos canyons of Texas.
Carolyn Boyd Leads Shumla Students in Field Methods in Rock Art
Photo Credit: Shumla School (c) 2007
The Shumla School is a nonprofit organization that conducts short-term programs and classes for adults, teens and younger to 3rd grade, families, corporate groups and individuals. Called Shumla Adventures (Shumla is an acronym for "Studying Human Use of Materials, Land, and Art"), the classes include programs in archaeology, ecology, natural history, prehistoric lifeways, botany, and art. Experimental archaeology (basket making, building an earth oven, paint making), hiking, ethnobotanical lectures: the programs cross all spectra of ideas around studying prehistoric people.
Each year, the Shumla School schedules a mixture of field adventures, day camps, and teacher training. In May (and for the third season), Shumla is offering a three-week field course in Field Methods in Rock Art, co-sponsored by Texas State University at San Marcos and led by rock art researcher Carolyn Boyd and archaeologist Elton Prewitt. The curriculum includes rock art recording and analysis; instruction in how to establish a field research design and protocols for collecting field data; investigation of the archaeology of the Lower Pecos, hunter-gather lifeways, and the foraging adaptation. There are almost daily field trips to the spectacular rock art sites that occur in the canyons of the Lower Pecos River region.
Graduate or undergraduate credit is available (tuition through Texas State); lodging, meals, course materials, recording equipment, and on-site travel charges are $1,750.
Contact info@shumla.org or call 432-292-4848.
- Field Methods in Rock Art (Shumla School)
- Field Methods in Rock Art (Texas State)
- Rock Art Field Methods Blog from 2007
- More Fieldwork in Focus
- Archaeology Digs 2008
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