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2008 FIELD SCHOOLS During the summer of 2008 the UNR Anthropology Department will hold two field schools. All students will earn six undergraduate semester credit hours from UNR for participating in any of the field schools listed below. 1. Historical Archaeology - Mining Your Past: a field school in Public Archaeology of the Great Depression, Pershing County, NV - May 19-June 20, 2008 - directed by Dr. Donald Hardesty and Dr. Carolyn White. In 1893, prospectors discovered placer gold at Rabbithole Springs, earlier known as a watering hole on the Lassen-Applegate Cut-Off of the Oregon-California emigrant trail. Local county government relief programs during the 1930's depression era grubstaked the unemployed to work the deposits. The field school students will survey and excavate the sites of mining camps in Nevada's Black Rock Desert in the vicinity of Rabbithole Springs. This will be our third season at this site and the field school will be led by Dr. Donald Hardesty and Dr. Carolyn White. Applications due with deposit to the department office by April 15th, 2008. EXTENSION DEADLINE: Applications accepted until April 25th instead of the 15th!!!! Rabbithole Field School Flyer 2008 Rabbithole Field School Application 2. Historical Archaeology - Archaeology of Mark Twain's Comstock, Virginia City, NV -July 14-August 14, 2008 - directed by Dr. Donald Hardesty and Dr. Carolyn White. Emigrants traveling along the California Trail in 1850 found placer gold at the mouth of Gold Canyon on the Carson River in what is now northwestern Nevada. Miners working these deposits discovered the Comstock silver lode in 1859. The Comstock emerged as a world famous center of precious metals mining. Industrialization of its mines and mills in the early 1860s revolutionized the mining industry around the world. Mark Twain described life on the early Comstock from his residence in Virginia City. In this five-week field school, students will locate and explore archaeological sites associated with the earliest period of Comstock history while learning methods of historical archaeology. Students will investigate the location and social and cultural characteristics of the earliest Comstock mining camps; boardinghouses, brothels, and households; patterns of gender and ethnicity; and commercial development. Applications due with deposit to the department office by June 15th, 2008. Comstock Field School Application
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