What Did IFR Students Find This Year?
From Israel - Tel Abel Beth Maacah: “This bearded male figure head made of faience (a kind of glass derivative), with [...]
Human Connection, Past and Present
By Dr. Sarah Rowe I’ve been working with community members in Dos Mangas since 2006. The community has steadily built an audience for ecotourism [...]
A Day Living and Working in the Forest
By Camille Burton It’s 6:30am and the rustle of sleepy people and groans next to me confirms it’s time to get a move on [...]
Finding Ourselves in Uncharted Territory: A Perspective from a Vera Campbell Scholarship Awardee
Students who attend IFR field schools come from all walks of life and have unique reasons for joining a program. Some attend a field [...]
The Border Trilogy
In the aftermath of Trumps executive order to separate illegal immigrant children from their parents on the U.S. – Mexico Border, the U.S. government [...]
The Story of Amache: Security vs. Civil Rights
Sense of Place for the Displaced The Amache field school explores a location where Japanese immigrants to the US and their descendants were incarcerated at [...]
Maverick Archaeologists: Thinking Outside the Box
By Dr. Ran Boytner, March 19, 2018 Mav·er·ick (/ˈmav(ə)rik) refers to an unorthodox or independent-minded person. Maverick archaeologist refers to a scholar who is [...]
IFR-SAA Travel Award Winners Are Heading to the Capitol
Every year the IFR offers two SAA Travel Award scholarships, to give undergraduate students the opportunity to attend the most prestigious academic conference for archaeology in [...]
SAA Travel, Paper, and Poster Awards
Each year, thousands of archaeologists and students from around the world gather at the most important archaeology conference in the United States-- the Society for [...]
Thinking Big: Synthetic Archaeology May Advance Our Understanding of the Past
By Dr. Ran Boytner The IFR is proud to become an institutional partner of the new Coalition for Archaeological Synthesis (CfAS). The CfAS is [...]