Germantown Archaeohistory


Location: Germantown, New York, United States

Season: 
July 8, 2019 to August 2, 2019

Application Deadline: 
Wednesday, May 1, 2019

Deadline Type: 
Rolling

Program Type

Field school

RPA certified

no

Affiliation:

Bard College

Project Director:

Prof Christopher Lindner, Bard College

Project Description

Shovel testing and block excavation plus laboratory analysis, of buried 18th-century Parsonage structures and effects of landscaping thru the late 20th century, as part of a decade-long community project on the earliest major German settlement in America, with several decades of slavery and evidence of African American protective ritual and art.

Period(s) of Occupation: 1710-1990

Notes: 
Students may repeat course in successive summers, for higher level credits and greater challenges based on their experience.

Project size: 
1-24 participants

Minimum Length of Stay for Volunteers: 4 wks

Minimum age: 
14

Experience required: 
none

Room and Board Arrangements

Dormitory Room $77/wk

Cost: 
$1,700

Academic Credit

Name of institution offering credit: 
Bard College
Number of credits offered 4
Tuition: 
$1700

Location

Contact Information
Prof Christopher Lindner
Box 5000 Bard College
Annandale
NY
US
12504
Telephone: 
8457979316
Recommended Bibliography: 

Becoming German: The 1709 Palatine Migration to New York

by Philip Otterness
Subfloor Pits and the Archaeology of Slavery in Colonial Virginia
 
by Patricia Samford