Tuition

• $450 per week for non-credit participation.

• $819 per week (1 credit per week) for college credit.

Room and Board*

• $85 per week (includes dinners Monday-Thursday).

Dr. David Moore (above middle) will lead the Summer 2019 archaeology field school at the Berry site. David Moore conducted investigations at the Berry site in 1986, 1995, 1997, and 2001-2018. He has directed numerous field schools since 1978 at the Warren Wilson site (31BN29) and other sites in western North Carolina. His book entitled, Catawba Valley Mississippian: Ceramics, Chronology, and Catawba Indians, has been published by the University of Alabama Press. David received his MA and Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and served as the North Carolina Office of State Archaeology's Western Office archaeologist for 18 years before becoming a full-time faculty member at Warren Wilson College.

Dr. Robin Beck (above left), an Associate Professor of Anthropology and Associate Curator of North American Archaeology at the University of Michigan, is co-director of the Berry site field school. Beck is the author of Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South published by Cambridge University Press, 2013. In 1996, as part of his M.A. project at the University of Alabama, he directed a settlement survey of Upper Creek-Warrior Fork, the tributary of the upper Catawba River along which the Berry site is located. He co-directed a proton magnetometer survey at the Berry site in 1997, and it was during this survey that the burned structures were first identified. He has also worked in the Lake Titicaca Basin of Bolivia and Peru, and from 2000-2001 directed excavations at the site of Alto Pukara in Bolivia as part of his dissertation research. 

Dr. Christopher Rodning (above right) is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Tulane University. He is the third co-director of the Berry site field school. His edited volume, Archaeological Studies of Gender in the Southeastern United States (co-edited with Jane Eastman) was published by the University Press of Florida in 2001, and he has a recent book, Center Places and Cherokee Towns, published by the University of Alabama Press in 2015. Chris has been involved in the archaeology of western North Carolina and the Appalachian Summit area since 1994.

The three directors completed Fort San Juan and the Limits of Empire: Colonialism and Household Practice at the Berry Site, an edited volume about the Berry site, in 2016, published by the University Press of Florida.