Cypress College offers two concurrently running semester-long field courses in archaeology (ANTH 231 and ANTH 232) via the Anthropology Department at Cypress College. These courses are conducted in Southern California on the weekends during the Spring Semesters. They are taught by archaeologist Dr. Craig Goralski, who has experience in California Mission Archaeology at Mission San Miguel as well as excavating Milling Stone Horizon sites in California.

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Steve James

Edward Knell

Cultural Resources Facility

The Pimu Catalina Island Archaeology Field School is a collaborative research project with Tongva/Gabrielino tribal members, the Santa Catalina Island Conservancy and California State University, Northridge.

The field school provides students with practical working knowledge of survey, excavation, lab and cataloging methods while immersing them in the 9,000 years of prehistoric maritime history of the Tongva/Gabrielino nation. Students will also learn about how to apply cultural resource laws to public sector archaeological work.

Situated just off the coast of Los Angeles, Catalina Island was historically an important trading supply outpost for Southern California and beyond. The field school is part of the on-going Pimu Catalina Island Archaeological Project (PCIAP), which is working to assess and protect archaeological sites on Catalina.

The Master of Arts degree program prepares students for professional careers in archaeology by providing practical instruction as well as a solid theoretical and methodological background. The faculty includes several archaeologists with a CRM background actively pursuing research in California and the Great Basin. The Archaeological Research Center (ARC) provides opportunities for both graduate and undergraduate students to learn while participating in real-world CRM archaeology projects for a variety of federal, state, and private clients throughout the state. The Archaeological Curation Facility (ACF) provides a setting for students interested in archaeology to gain hands-on experience working with archaeological collections.

ARC Website: www.csus.edu/arc

Website: http://anthropology.csusb.edu/graduatePrograms/

Susan Hector

Amy Ross

The Department of Anthropology at SDSU offers graduate study leading to the Master of Arts. Our department prides itself on its public-facing, four-field approach, and trains our students' to apply anthropological principles and methodologies to address problems in the contemporary world. Curious about our program in sunny San Diego?
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Our graduate students receive training in integrative anthropology through mentored fieldwork with faculty and via our state-of-the-art laboratory facilities, including the Biological Anthropology and Primatology Lab, the Computational Archaeology Lab, the Environmental Archaeology and Anthropology Lab, the Historical Archaeology and Maya Research Lab, and the Zooarchaeology Lab. Students have on-campus and off-campus internship opportunities in archaeology and our campus is home to the Southern Coastal Information Center (SCIC) and archaeological collections.

Our M.A. program prepares students for:

• Teaching positions in Anthropology
• Doctoral training in Anthropology and allied fields 
• Professional careers in public and private sectors and non-profit organizations (e.g., cultural resource management, urban planning, program evaluation, administration, healthcare, marketing, and sustainable resource management and economic development)

Margaret Purser, Michael Newland

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