Todd L. VanPool
203 Swallow Hall
University of Missouri
Columbia, Missouri 65211
email: vanpoolt@missouri.edu
phone: 573-884-8118
MU Anthropology Field School
76 Draw Site, New Mexico
June 24 through July 25, 2009
76 Draw Site, New Mexico
June 24 through July 25, 2009
The University of Missouri is sponsoring a field school near Deming in southern New Mexico. Research will focus on the excavation of the 76 Draw Site, an important site dating to the Casas Grandes Medio period (AD 1200 through 1450). During the Medio period, an expansive political and religious system united southern New Mexico, western Texas, and northern Chihuahua. This site, which is the most northerly known Medio period settlement, includes a pueblo-like adobe structure and a dense artifact scatter. Students participating in the field school will generate data useful for understanding how Medio period people interacted with other Southwestern cultures such as the pueblos in central and northern New Mexico and the Salado settlements of western New Mexico and Arizona, as well as settlements in the Medio period’s heartland in modern day northern Chihuahua.
Field training will focus on learning site survey and mapping procedures, excavation technique, and approaches to artifact analysis in a field laboratory setting under the watchful eye of Dr. Christine VanPool (MU), Dr. Todd L. VanPool(MU), and Dr. Gordon F.M. Rakita (University of North Florida). Students may enroll for 3 to 6 credit hours in Anthropology 4800 (undergraduate credit; $245.60 per credit hour) or Anthropology 7800 (graduate credit; $298.70 per credit hour). Training and opportunities will be the same regardless of the number of credit hours taken, and all students will have the opportunity to participate in all parts of the project.
We will stay in a developed camp ground near Deming, New Mexico. Students need to provide
their own sleeping bags,
air mattresses, and
personal field gear such as trowels A full list of recommended items is available by contacting us at vanpoolt@missouri.edu.
The project will supply all remaining equipment (e.g., shovels), room, and board. Students will need to provide their own transportation to and from Deming, New Mexico, at the start and end of the project. Students living in Columbia, Missouri, can carpool with the project directors and/or other students. Once in the field school starts, the project will provide transportation. You WILL NOT need to use personal vehicles to travel to and from the site.
Costs
Tuition for 3 to 6 credit hours: undergraduate credit:
$245.60 + $13 student fees per hour + $1,623 field school fee Tuition for 3 to 6 credit hours: graduate credit:
$298.70 + $13 student fees per hour + $1,623 field school fee
The field school fee covers transportation in the field, field equipment, room and board. Students who are not already enrolled at the University of Missouri also need to pay a one-time Visiting Student Application fee of $45. Transportation to and from Deming, your personal equipment/hygiene items, tents, and sleeping bags are not covered.
Field training will focus on learning site survey and mapping procedures, excavation technique, and approaches to artifact analysis in a field laboratory setting under the watchful eye of 
A full list of recommended items is available by contacting us at