The Community Heritage Lab at Santa Clara University is excited to announce our summer 2019 field school in community archaeology! This field school is a unique combination of archaeological investigation, historical research, and community outreach. Students will get to experience firsthand how historical archaeology is done while also learning about its potential uses in and impacts on the wider world. We will be working with local institutions and neighborhood residents to provide useful resource for our community through rigorous research that employs essential and state of the art archaeological methods. Our efforts will be focused on American Era sites located within the Old Quad neighborhood surrounding the university, but we will potentially also investigate Colonial Spanish, Mexican, and American Era sites in the wider region. Students will be embedded in a thriving and vibrant urban area, with all the amenities that Silicon Valley has to offer. Come and learn about the past of the place where the future is made.