Spiders, Scorpions and Snakes
By Andrew Califf Students clear foliage around exposed burial urns at El Rayo’s Locus 3 to further excavate the cemetery. One of Geoffrey [...]
First Day Breaking Dirt
Grid lines being laid out at Locus 3, the cemetery. The cracked urn in the foreground is one of four visible on the [...]
Visit to the National Palace
By: Andrew Califf We visited the grand National Palace and Ivonne Miranda Tapia, the director of Nicaragua’s Institute for Culture, gave us a tour. [...]
A Day in Granada
By Andrew Califf and contributions by Jerry Walter, Simone Judea Muhammad, Philip Hutton, Anna Brown and William Robison. Geoff McCafferty’s IFR team arrived in [...]
The Story Artifacts Tell: “Calcophones” at the Italy: Incoronata Field School
By Dr. Giulia Saltini Semerari, Research Affiliate at the Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, University of Michigan & Co-Director of Italy: Incoronata The plateau [...]
From the Textbook to Reality: Exploring Japanese Internment through Artifacts & the People Who Remember Them
My name is Kylie Dillinger, and I’m a senior at the University of Denver majoring in Anthropology and minoring in Emergent Digital Practices. I [...]
What Did IFR Students Find This Year?
From Israel - Tel Abel Beth Maacah: “Here is a special find from our last excavation season at Abel Beth Maacah [...]
The Gallina Phase: Hillbillies or Hippies?
By Gary Chandler, 2019 Field School Student from New Mexico: Puebloan Rebels of The Southwest Have you ever tried putting together a [...]
How Field School Made Me a Researcher
I’m Julian Gonzalez, a Psychology major and Anthropology minor studying at California State University, Los Angeles. When I expressed to my professor that I [...]
Updates from the Field 2019
Summer is here, and our field season is in full swing! From museum studies to primatology to indigenous archaeology, IFR students are engaged in [...]