The Crow Canyon Archaeological Center offers an opportunity for teens seeking summer experience that will look good on a college application. Some participants will be able to attend on scholarships that will help cover the costs of tuition, room and board.
Students participating in Crow Canyon's Middle School Archaeology Camp, High School Archaeology Camp, and High School Field School excavate alongside archaeologists in the field, analyze artifacts in the lab, visit archaeological sites, and discover the rich cultural history of the ancestral Pueblo Indians of the American Southwest.
The camps offer a rare opportunity for students at the pre-college level to perform on-site archaeological work.
Archaeology camp students will work at the Dillard site, Crow Canyon's current excavation site and the focus of the Center's Basketmaker Communities Project.
The site is an ancestral Pueblo community center dating from the Basketmaker III period (A.D. 500-750), a time of rapid population growth and social and technological change. Crow Canyon and the Dillard site will be featured on a PBS Time Team America episode on Aug. 26.
Scholarships are available, including several for local and American Indian students. Deadlines vary by program. For information about Crow Canyon's teen camps and scholarships, including application forms and application deadlines, visit crowcanyon.org/summercamps, call Greg Harpel at 970-564-4346 or e-mail gharpel@crowcanyon.org.