CLAS 3050 Archaeology Lab: Ashkelon, Israel

CLAS 3050 Archaeology Lab: Ashkelon, Israel
Archaeology Lab: Ashkelon, Israel
The field archaeology lab in Ashkelon Israel will introduce students to process of artifact analysis, cataloguing, and recording. Students will work alongside professional staff sorting, cleaning, registering, and analyzing finds from the current excavations such as pottery, figurines, glass, worked stone, faunal remains, and other objects. Students will learn how to make preliminary readings of the artifacts and will also be introduced to methods of scientific analysis, including flotation, petrography, xrf, 3d scanning, and ftir analysis.
Co-requisites: CLAS 4050: Introduction to Field Archaeology
credit hours: 3