Ohlone Mutsun basketry, Old Mission San Juan Bautista, California.
Photo copyright Ruben G. Mendoza, 1998.
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The CSU Monterey Bay Institute for Archaeology maintains
an active field program on the California Central Coast. At present,
the focus of existing projects centers on the archaeology and ethnohistory
of the early California Missions of San Juan Bautista and San Carlos
Borromeo del Rio Carmelo or Carmel Mission. Whereas the project
at San Juan Bautista has afforded hundreds of CSUMB and other California
college and university students invaluable research opportunities since
the Fall of 1995, the Carmel Mission Project was initiated with the
collaboration of the Diocese of Monterey's curator, Sir Richard Joseph
Menn, and Carmel Mission Pastor John Griffin in the Spring of 2003. This latter effort was initiated so as to determine the location of
the lost wine cellar at said mission complex, and more recently, the location of the 6th or Provisional Church of the 1790s. CSUMB students are encouraged
to check class schedules located under the listings of the Social and Behavioral Sciences
program at: http://csumb.edu/academic/schedule/.
Non-students/DLEE registration link located at http://extendeded.csumb.edu/extendeded.htm.
To download an Acrobat .pdf version of the DLEE registration form click
here: DLEE Registration
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This course is an introduction to the methods, principles, and practices of field archaeology. It will combine in-class lab and discussion sessions with field studies in historical archaeology. Semester lab projects include (a) modern material cultures study or garbology lab, and (b) flintknapping or stone tool production lab. This course is required of all SBS archaeology majors, and has a co-requisite in the SBS 260L/360L (Experimental Archaeology Lab). In order to receive credit for SBS 260s/360s, you must complete the required SBS 260L/360L lab. This course fulfills both the upper division major Service Learning (MLO-SL) requirement, as well as the SCIENCE (Methods) portion of the University Learning Requirement (ULR) requirement at CSU Monterey Bay. |
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 Carmel Mission and Wireless Archaeology This wireless archaeology field course engages the exploration of those methods and procedures specific to the assessment and interpretation of archaeological and ethnohistorical data. Student projects center on the excavation of contact period and colonial archaeological sites, and the study and documentation of the early California missions of San Carlos Borromeo or Carmel, and San Juan Bautista. Since the Fall of 2004, field program offerings and project objectives have focused on the archaeological recovery of the 6th or Provisional Church of Mission San Carlos Borromeo del Rio Carmelo in Carmel, California. Excavations conducted betwen Spring 2003 and Summer 2004 were in turn focused on the recovery of the original Serra Library at said Mission.
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The SBS 260L/360L - Archaeology Lab constitutes the required co-requisite for SBS 260s/360s (Archaeology of a California Mission. All processing of specimens recovered in the field are addressed in this lab. This lab is required of all SBS archaeology majors. |
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Spring 2003 Poster