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Elkhorn/Ebert Ranch and Fairbanks Site (North Dakota)
May 16-June 27, 2008. University of North Dakota. Survey at Theodore Roosevelt's ranch and excavation at the Fairbanks early Plains Archaic site. Students pay tuition and receive wages in addition to room and board.

Field School in Focus 2008: Robert Given House, Pemaquid Falls, Maine
July 28-August 15, 2008. Southern Maine Community College. The 2008 field school will be held at the late 18th century estate of Robert Given, near Pemaquid Falls, Maine.

Field Methods in Rock Art (Texas USA)
May 12-29, 2008. Shumla School. Investigate and record rock art in the Lower Pecos canyons of Texas.

Balkan Heritage 2008
May-August 2008. Balkan Heritage. BH is featuring six field schools this year, at different times and places throughout the summer.

Jones Mill, Arkansas
June 13-29, 2008. The Arkansas Archeological Survey and Arkansas Archeological Society will cosponsor a Training Program in Archaeology at the Jones Mill Site (3HS28) in Hot Spring County, Arkansas.

Nicodemus, Kansas
June 2-17, 2007. Kansas Archeology Training Program, among others. Excavations at the dugout homesteads in the town of Nicodemus, Kansas, where African American families settled in 1877.

Kaloyanovets Cataloging Project
July 1-21 2007. Balkan Heritage. The project involves the scientific cataloging of artifacts from the Late Neolithic settlement of Kaloyanovets (10 km from Stara Zagora, Bulgaria).

The Search for Amelia Earhart
July 12-August 9, 2007. The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR). Continuing investigations on Nikumaroro island during the 70th anniversary of the disappearance of pioneer aviator Earhart will focus on the 'Seven Site', a campsite where human remains were found in 1940, together with a woman's shoe and a sextant box.

Seep Springs, California
Field School in Focus The 2007 field school for California State University Bakersfield will be held this year at Seep Springs; assistant director Rebecca S. Orfila at CSUB's Center for Archaeological Research sent along these notes.

Robert Given House, Pemaquid Falls, Maine
The 2007 field school for the Department of Social Sciences, Southern Main Community College will be held between July 30 and August 10, 2007, at the 18th century estate of Robert Givens, near Pemaquid Falls, Maine. Director Neill de Paoli sent this description along.

Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel
July 8-August 3, 2007. Tell es-Safi/Gath (Hebrew Tel Tsafit), Israel, is a commanding mound located on the border between the Judean foothills (the Shephelah) and the coastal plain (Philistia), approximately halfway between Jerusalem and Ashkelon.

Maritime Archaeology in the Netherlands
May 20-27 2007. Nautical Archaeology Society. A study tour of Dutch East India Company (VOC) sailing ships and the archaeology of them, including a series of lectures on the history of the VOC and VOC shipbuilding practices.

Freedman's Town National Historic District
January 19/20-April 28/29, 2007. Rutherford B. H. Yates Museum Community Archaeology Project (YCAP). Community-based investigations into Houston's Freedman's Town, regarded to be the last African American "Freedmen's Town" community extant in the United States that continues to be occupied.

Fort Vancouver, Washington
June 19--August 4, 2007. National Park Service, Portland State University, Washington State University Vancouver, and the Vancouver National Historic Reserve Trust. This year’s project will explore the early (ca. 1846-1880) history of the U.S. Army component of the fort.

Hazor, Israel
In the summer of 2007 the Selz Foundation Hazor excavations in Memory of Yigael Yadin, headed by Amnon Ben-Tor from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem will resume at Hazor, a major site in the Galilee (located approximately 5 km. north of Rosh-Pinnah, Israel).

West Point Foundry, New York USA
Michigan Technological University's West Point Foundry excavations will be held again at West Point Foundry, an early 19th century locomotive factory.

Tel Rehov, Israel
Next summer's excavations at Tel Rehov, Israel, will be held between June 25-August 2, 2007. Project staff member Nava Panitz-Cohen sent along this description and photographs of the proposed research.

Hippos-Sussita, Israel
The eighth season of excavations at Hippos (Sussita) will be run by the Zinman Institute of Archaeology at the University of Haifa between July 1-26, 2007.

Tel Dor, Israel
The 2007 season of excavations at Tel Dor, Israel will be held between June 26 and July 28 next summer.

Holley Shelter (South Africa)
Dr. Molly Clark of West Virginia Wesleyan College will hold field school excavations at Holley Shelter in the KwaZulu-Natal Province of South Africa between July 28-August 24, 2007.

Marcajirca, Peru
The third season of excavations of the Huari-Ancash Archaeological and BioArchaeological Project is scheduled to run next summer between 15th July and 15th August, 2007, run by Bebel Ibarra of the University of Paris.

Maritime Archaeology at Flinders
Flinders University's Maritime Archaeology Program is now accepting applications to participate in the Maritime Archaeology Field School at Victor Harbor, South Australia, 1-18 February 2007.

Tel Tsaf, Israel
The archaeological site of Tel Tsaf is a Middle Chalcolithic site located near Beth-Shean in the Jordan Valley of Israel, occupied between the Late Neolithic to the Ghassulian-Beer Sheva Chalcolithic