My two cents...

Posted by Inbanana Jones from spider-wc043.proxy.aol.com on February 02, 2000 at 02:13:19:

In Reply to: Doing some "archaeological research" on the WWW posted by Reggie on February 01, 2000 at 23:47:15:

Depends what you want to study. If you're interested in more technical aspects of archaeology, there are some good schools for that. A premier anthro department on the west coast is that at UC-Berkeley: top-notch archaeologists there. Many of the U-Calif. schools have good anthro depts. with on-the-ball archaeology faculty... don't exclude an anthro dept. from your search, as these are "umbrella" departments that encompass specialists in one of several fields: cultural anthro, archae., physical anthro (bones and statistics), and linguistics.

"Archaeology" departments (as opposed to "Anthropology" depts.) are relatively rare in this country. Most of the ones that do exist usually focus on Classical archaeology (Greeks, Romans, ad nauseum); see the dept. at Boston University for instance. But there is often someone who does something else (hunters/gatherers, whatever).

If you're into more sciency stuff, check out some of the larger state universities. They often stress more scientific applications and research... Perhaps I over-generalize... Check out Washington State University...

Good advice is: pick a part of the world and/or research field (i.e., are you interested in bones? pottery? Spanish colonial archaeology? Cavemen? Pharoahs? Aztec curses???) that interests you, then find someplace or some prof that specializes in it...

The link below should take you to the SAA webpage (www.saa.org).
It can help refine your search.

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: Depends what you want to study.  If you're interested in more technical aspects of archaeology, there are some good schools for that.  A premier anthro department on the west coast is that at UC-Berkeley:  top-notch archaeologists there.  Many of the U-Calif. schools have good anthro depts. with on-the-ball archaeology faculty...  don't exclude an anthro dept. from your search, as these are "umbrella" departments that encompass specialists in one of several fields: cultural anthro, archae., physical anthro (bones and statistics), and linguistics.

: "Archaeology" departments (as opposed to "Anthropology" depts.) are relatively rare in this country.  Most of the ones that do exist usually focus on Classical archaeology (Greeks, Romans, ad nauseum); see the dept. at Boston University for instance.  But there is often someone who does something else (hunters/gatherers, whatever).

: If you're into more sciency stuff, check out some of the larger state universities.  They often stress more scientific applications and research...  Perhaps I over-generalize...  Check out Washington State University...

: Good advice is: pick a part of the world and/or research field (i.e., are you interested in bones? pottery? Spanish colonial archaeology? Cavemen? Pharoahs? Aztec curses???) that interests you, then find someplace or some prof that specializes in it...

: The link below should take you to the SAA webpage (www.saa.org).  
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