11th September 2012, 03:10 PM
At the UofEd, we had the option of taking an Archaeological Illustration course which more covered methods used when preparing your photos for publication, a lot less about standards used in the field. We also did have an optional 3 or 4 hour intensive seminar on 3D artefact scanning, which was quite good and surprisingly easy. That was mostly PhD students in osteo, I think I was the only straight archaeology track student there. But on the whole we weren't taught much by way of survey methods and the tools you used to get it done, I think the expectation from universities in the UK these days is that you figure that stuff out on your own through field schools. I did my undergrad in the USA where it seems like there is far more of an interest in teaching survey methods and photography (I had at least two classes in both land and marine based survey methodologies) and there was definitely a photography element to that, but not so much about how to use a camera, just what types of pictures are effective during survey and when. From friends doing masters at various schools in the northeast (US), they seem to be pushed out into the field as soon as possible so they get all those experiences, especially with using GPR, GPS, and GIS so they'd be marketable after graduation. This of course is probably just a case of "depends where you go"...
I'm ramblin' on like a foo'....
I'm ramblin' on like a foo'....