5th June 2005, 12:53 PM
University of Calgary, Canada.
A great Uni for Plains Archaeology, not so great for stuff I'm doing in the UK now. The lithics and osteology courses were first rate however and I still use what I can remember from them.
The best part of the degree was the excellent field school, which convinced me that I could succeed at field archaeology even if I hated much of the academic side. In retrospect we did some dodgy North American grid square excavation better suited to native sites than the 1875 North Western Mounted Police site that we were excavating, but what the hell.
Also the uni, unlike all but one other North American university, had its own archaeology department that was separate from the anthropology department. This was an enlightened view, that avoided the annoying and old fashioned tendency of classing archaeology as a minor part of anthropology.
First rate uni even if my degree wasn't!
A great Uni for Plains Archaeology, not so great for stuff I'm doing in the UK now. The lithics and osteology courses were first rate however and I still use what I can remember from them.
The best part of the degree was the excellent field school, which convinced me that I could succeed at field archaeology even if I hated much of the academic side. In retrospect we did some dodgy North American grid square excavation better suited to native sites than the 1875 North Western Mounted Police site that we were excavating, but what the hell.
Also the uni, unlike all but one other North American university, had its own archaeology department that was separate from the anthropology department. This was an enlightened view, that avoided the annoying and old fashioned tendency of classing archaeology as a minor part of anthropology.
First rate uni even if my degree wasn't!