REU: Student Research on the Naco Valley Archaelogical Project Northwestern Honduras

该奖项通过凯尼恩学院人类学系为本科生研究经验网站提供资金。该计划旨在提供积极性高的本科生，特别是女性，有机会在洪都拉斯西北部纳科谷考古项目的背景下发展他们作为考古领域科学家的技能。该项目侧重于学生进行一项重要的独立研究项目，从阐述一个假设到最终的写作，在实地课堂教学的支持下，以及学生和研究领导者之间轻松而激烈的互动的生活和工作环境。本课程的学习是建立在主要研究人员过去在野外环境中与本科生合作和指导的丰富经验的基础上，特别是在1988年纳科谷季节进行的NSF-REU现场项目。该项目的最终目标是帮助学生从初级研究助理成长为初级同事，对自己做出独立研究决策和贡献科学知识的能力充满信心。1988年的努力成功地实现了这些目标，构成了当前方案的模式。

This award provides funds for a Research Experiences for Undergraduates Site through the Anthropology Department at Kenyon College. The program is designed to provide highly motivated undergraduates, especially women, with the opportunity to develop their skills as archaeological field scientists while working within the context of the Naco Valley Archaeological Project, NW Honduras. The project focuses on student conduct of a significant independent research project, from the enunciation of a hypothesis to final write-up, supported by in-field class instruction and a living and working situation in which interaction among students and research leaders is easy and yet intense. This course of study is founded on the principal investigators considerable experience in collaborating with and instructing undergraduates within field settings in the past and, especially, on an NSF-REU site project which took place during the 1988 Naco Valley season. Ultimately, the goal of the project is to help students grow from neophyte research assistants to junior colleagues confident in their ability to make independent research decisions and contribute to scientific knowledge. The 1988 efforts, which form the model of the current program, were successful in accomplishing these objectives.