Undergraduate Archaeology 2026-2027

This three week summer field school will give students the opportunity to develop skills in archaeological excavation. Students will gain hands-on experience with key excavation, survey and recording techniques, and will learn how to communicate the results of this field practice. During their participation in the field school, with the aid of experienced instructors, students will produce a portfolio of their own excavation and survey records and their contribution to the project will be assessed.

In their brief 300-year heyday, the peoples of Viking-Age Scandinavia transformed the northern world, and themselves. This course explores the Vikings at home, abroad, and in their new homes overseas in the developing colonies of the diaspora that stretched from the coasts of North America to the Asian steppe. In lectures and seminars, looking at the finds, students will consider themes such as settlement and social structure, urbanism and commerce, pagan and Christian religion, and the political process that created the modern nation states of Norway, Sweden and Denmark