Due to the Covid-19 crisis this field program has now been transferred online! While missing our outdoor classroom the program will still deliver the same great academic content and carries the same credits as the established field version. The program is delivered through a combination of live online teaching and lab sessions, exclusive access to pre-recorded tutorials and self-directed (but guided) learning and home-based activities. For more information see our dedicated brochure here.
Forensic Anthropology – Dead Men Do Tell Tales
June 8 – 12, 2020
Overview: This one week online accredited program teaches students how to excavate and assess human remains. Taught from the surroundings of the Irish National Heritage Park (see here) the Dead Men Do Tell Tales course is designed for students from a variety of academic backgrounds with an interest in osteoarchaeology and physical/forensic anthropology. Students will gain insight into key archaeological field skills and have the opportunity to analyse archaeological skeletal remains during interactive web-delivered laboratory sessions. Topics covered during lab sessions include: human and comparative osteology; determining sex, approximate age-at-death, living stature, identifying palaeopathological conditions and understanding how these techniques are used in archaeological and forensic contexts. The course is delivered by some of the foremost archaeological and bioarchaeological experts in Ireland (see here for biographies).
- Where: From your own home! Instruction direct from the field, and our site facilities at the Irish National Heritage Park (see here)
- Enrollment Status: OPEN
- Academic Credit: 7.5 ECTS (equivalent to 3-4 US semester credits)
- Total Cost: €650
- Course Type: Forensic Anthropology
- Application Deadline : April 30, 2020
- Instructors: Dr. Linda Lynch, Dr. Denis Shine, Dr. Stephen Mandal
- For further program information see our brochure here
- Included is all tuition and instruction, an e-learning pack, a virtual field trip(s) and an academic transcript
Apply online here
Field Anthropology – Uncovering the Archaeology of Conflict and Colonisation
June 15 – 26, 2020
Overview:
This two week accredited online program gives students a ‘hands-on’ orientation of archaeological field techniques and field anthropology, including key archaeological skills in survey, excavation and post-excavation analysis. The diversity of this course allows students to understand the significance of an archaeological site, specifically the Ferrycarrig ringwork (one of the first Anglo-Norman castles constructed in Ireland in 1169AD/CE), within its heritage setting in general, and that of the medieval landscape of Wexford in particular. The course is delivered by some of the foremost archaeological and bioarchaeological experts in Ireland (see here for biographies).
- Where: From your own home! Instruction direct from the field, and our site facilities at the Irish National Heritage Park (see here)
- Enrollment Status: OPEN
- Academic Credit: 7.5 ECTS (equivalent to 3-4 US semester credits)
- Total Cost: €850
- Application Deadline: April 30, 2020
- Course Type: Archaeology and Anthropology
- Instructor: Dr. Denis Shine, Dr. Stephen Mandal
- For further program information see our brochure here
- Included is all tuition and instruction, an e-learning pack, a virtual field trip(s) and an academic transcript
Apply online here
