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Archaeology Digs in AustraliaNumerous field schools and other planned excavations are held each year in Australia and New Zealand. Here are a few of the recent listings of archaeology digs.
Field schools listed below with dates older than the current year may indicate an ongoing project that has not yet established dates for this season. Australian Rock Art
July 10-22, 2008 (2 sessions). Flinders University. Recording rock art in its wider cultural context, with seminars and informal interaction with Kunbarlanja (Oenpelli) community members, and directed towards in-depth practical recording skills necessary for rock art research in an archaeological framework. Daw Park, Adelaide
September 21-28 2007. University of Flinders. We will be excavating the site of World War II air raid shelters thought to still exist beneath the Repatriation General Hospital. Easter Island (Chile)
September 15-November 1, 2007 (several sessions). Earthwatch Institute. Investigations on the island will include surface surveys of house sites and test-pits in gardens to document settlement distribution and the evolution of farming technologies. Fieldwork Training at Flinders
Various. Fieldwork opportunties include indigenous, maritime and historical field schools. See the site for details. Great Barrier Reef (Australia)
June 16-23 2007. James Cook University. Maritime archaeological field school held in even years. Introduction to Archaeological Geophysics (Adelaide)
November 12-16 2007. University of Sydney. This topic is aimed at graduates in archaeology or an earth sciences background who wish to gain experience in archaeological geophysics, although it does not presume any prior existing knowledge in geophysics. Kohika (New Zealand)
January 30–February 13 2005. University of Auckland. Kohika was late Maori lake village in the Rangitaiki Plains, Bay of Plenty occupied for a period in the latter half of the 17th century and unusually preserved because of its wetland location. Rock Art Field School (Queensland)
July 18 to 23, 2003. James Cook University. Rock art field school is an intensive five day program, held in odd years, out of the Cairns campus. The AWSANZ Project (South Australia)
February 2-17, 2002. Flinders University. Port Victoria and Wardang Island, South Australia. Eight historic shipwrecks around Wardang Island have been marked as part of a maritime heritage trail by Heritage SA. Victor Harbor, South Australia
February 1-18, 2007. Flinders University. Field school will study a number of underwater and terrestrial sites associated with maritime activities in Victor Harbor, South Australia. |
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