REU: The Lower Cacaulapa Valley Project: NW Honduras: A Program for Undergraduate Research in Archaeology and Cultural Anthropology

该奖项通过凯尼恩学院为洪都拉斯西北部下卡库拉帕项目的考古和文化人类学REU遗址提供资金。八名学生将在实地课堂教学和生活工作环境的支持下进行独立的实地调查。参与者将参加一个共同的核心研讨会，向他们介绍考古和民族志的方法和理论，并使他们对他们生活和工作的政治、文化和经济背景敏感。学生的调查将包括对现代和古代文化进程和行为模式的探索。本课程的研究建立在两位主任过去在野外环境中与本科生合作和教学的丰富经验的基础上，尤其是他们在1988年、1990年、1992年、1995年和1996年在洪都拉斯纳科山谷和2000年在卡库拉帕下游山谷指导的NSF REU项目。该奖项有助于基金会继续努力，通过积极的本科研究经历吸引有才华的学生进入科学事业。

This award provides funds, through Kenyon College, for an REU Site in archaeology and cultural anthropology at the Lower Cacaulapa Project in NW Honduras. Eight students will conduct independent field investigations supported by in-field class instruction and a living and working situation. Participants will take a common core of seminars that introduce them to archaeological and ethnographic methods and theory and sensitize them to the political, cultural, and economic context in which they live and work. Student investigations will include explorations of modern and ancient cultural processes and behavioral patterns. This course of study is founded on the directors' considerable experience in collaborating with and teaching undergraduates within field settings in the past, most particularly on NSF REU Site projects that they directed in the Naco vally, Honduras in 1988, 1990, 1992, 1995, and 1996, and in the lower Cacaulapa valley during 2000.This award contributes to the Foundation's continuing efforts to attract talented students into careers in science through active undergraduate research experiences.