PROGRAM IS SET TO GO August 1 - 21, 2024
Name of Program: Hawaii Indigenous Archaeology Field School
Description: Three weeks on the Big Island program integrating local cultural practices and service leadership with scientific research in a new and exciting way. Our program will be Community Based Participatory Research, working with local groups to help preserve and study the landscape, including the Kaloko Fishpond on the National Park Lands, a biological preserve in Hamakua, and taro fields in Waipio Valley in Kohala. The group will spend a week and a half in homes near Waimea, one week in Kona and three days in Honoka‘a on the north shore.
Dates: August 1-August 21, 2024
All participants must commit to active and positive engagement in all program components. Students will earn 8 units from Foothill College for successful completion of the program. The program consists of registration in the following Foothill classes for Summer 2023 that total up to 8 units:
ANTH 12 Applied Anthropology (4 units)
ANTH 52 Archaeological Field Methods (4 units)
The field program is broken down into different parts. The field and lab training portions of the program involve all the aspects of archaeology, preparing the student to operate in a field archaeology environment anywhere in the world. Benefiting from the over 50 years combined staff experience in teaching archaeology, each student is instructed in methods of site reconnaissance, surveying, data recording, photography, and drawing. In the laboratory, students are guided through different aspects of artifact analysis, such as architectural typology and stone tool production experiments. Field research is combined with Applied Service Leadership programs that integrate with the research.
Cost: $4000 program fee, which does not include airline ticket purchased independently by the student.
Included in Cost: All transportation, food and housing during the three week stay. After students fly to Kona on August 1 we fly to our lodgings at HPA. We begin our projects in the northern part of the island with HuiMAU Koholalele and Puanui on the Kohala coast. After a week of working at the Kaloko Fishpond on the Kona side, the students will move to the Honoka'a Hotel where they will stay three days and partake in research and service leadership projects on the Hamakua coast.
Local experts in Hawaiian culture and knowledge systems will be guest lecturing throughout the program. Students will be expected to participate in all aspects of the service and science programs. Students will also be taken to visit significant Hawaiian sites and be given time to enjoy the ocean and beach attractions.
Excluded from Cost: Air travel, personal expenses, travel insurance, health care, optional field trips