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Digging for Credit: Early Archaeological Field Schools in the American Southwest

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Carol A. Gifford  and
Elizabeth A. Morris
Carol A. Gifford
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721
Elizabeth A. Morris
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80537
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Digging in the earth, uncovering long-buried objects, and musing about past societies have long entranced humankind. As anthropology—including archaeology—became an established scientifichumanistic discipline, universities began offering specialized training and advanced degrees in archaeology. Tracing the beginnings of awarding university credit for digging in the dirt has been a nostalgic excursion, and it has uncovered tales of puzzling prehistoric clues, deep attachments to the essence of a place, camp esprit, and logistical travails made bearable only by the passage of time.

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Research Article
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American Antiquity , Volume 50 , Issue 2 , April 1985 , pp. 395 - 411
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1985

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