Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be an archaeologist? If so, the IUP Anthropology Department Archaeological Field School might be for you. Applications are now being accepted.

A six-week ethnographic field school will be offered for the first time in Indiana County from July 9–August 17, 2012.

Ten graduate students from the Anthropology Department MA Program completed their theses and graduated in 2011.

Beverly Chiarulli, Department of Anthropology, and graduate student Marion Smeltzer represented the Pennsylvania Archaeology Council at the Archaeology Institute of America Archaeology Fair in Philadelphia on January 7, 2012.

The Anthropology Department was well represented at the Annual Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology, January 4–7: Professor Beverly Chiarulli, Professor Ben Ford, current master's candidate Donna Smith, and young alumni Angela Jaillet, Jonathan Libbon, and Jeff Meyer all presented on IUP archaeological investigations. 

Ben Ford, assistant professor of Anthropology, published an article on 19th-century copper mine workers in Vermont in the December 2011 issue of the International Journal of Historical Archaeology.  

Holmes, a master's degree student in the Applied Archaeology Program, was awarded a Sigma Xi Grant-in-Aid of Research for marine magnetometry research.