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

该奖项为洪都拉斯西北部下卡考拉帕项目的考古和文化人类学REU遗址提供资金。八名本科生将进行独立的实地调研。参与者将参加共同的核心研讨会，向他们介绍考古学和人种学的方法和理论，并使他们对他们将生活和工作的政治、文化和经济背景敏感。学生调查将包括对现代和古代文化过程和行为模式的探索。这门课程是建立在董事们在过去与本科生合作和教授本科生方面的丰富经验的基础上的，尤其是他们于1988年、1990年、1992年、1995年和1996年在洪都拉斯的纳科瓦利指导的NSF REU站点项目，以及2000年到2002年在Cacaulapa山谷下游的项目。该奖项有助于基金会通过活跃的本科生研究经验继续努力吸引有才华的学生进入科学事业。

This award provides funds for an REU Site in archaeology and cultural anthropology at the Lower Cacaulapa Project in NW Honduras. Eight undergraduate students will conduct independent field research. 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 will 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 and 2002.This award contributes to the Foundation's continuing efforts to attract talented students into careers in science through active undergraduate research experiences.