{"id":72546,"date":"2016-05-16T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=72546"},"modified":"2018-06-20T11:04:14","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T15:04:14","slug":"ucfs-anthropology-classroom-blends-high-tech-world-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/ucfs-anthropology-classroom-blends-high-tech-world-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"麻豆原创’s Anthropology Classroom Blends High Tech, World Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"
A small group of 麻豆原创 students is heading to Turkey this month to put what they learned in the classroom to work at an anthropology dig in an area once ruled by King Midas.<\/p>\n
Anthropology assistant professor Scott Branting and his team of students will be working 10 weeks at the Kerkenes Dag Project, a new destination for 麻豆原创\u2019s anthropology program.<\/p>\n
The site holds a former enormous city that was built around 600 B.C. by the inhabitants of Phrygia and was ruled by Midas. Branting and others who work on the site hope to understand the ancient city that was destroyed during the rise of the Persian Empire.<\/p>\n
The new site is just one of many options students have when they major in anthropology at 麻豆原创. Students get big opportunities by working with cutting-edge technology to help uncover layers of artifacts and learn how to use the basic tools at mock dig sites on campus and real sites throughout the world.<\/p>\n
Other students will head to the island of Providenciales in Turks and Caicos for three weeks this summer while earning credit for a course. Professor Pete Sinelli worked in conjunction with Study Abroad at 麻豆原创 to come up with this field experience for undergraduate and graduate students who want a more hands-on approach to learning the essentials of archaeological field methods necessary for excavations.<\/p>\n
Marla Toyne, assistant professor of anthropology, is in the process of selecting a student to join her at a research site in the Andean region of South America. In the past, students at this site have used rappelling techniques, such as ropes and harnesses, to access the site as part of a collaboration with the Ukhupacha Project in Chachapoyas, Peru. Students were able to gain practical experience photographing, mapping and collecting bio-archaeological evidence of ancient burial practices in that area.<\/p>\n
In all, 麻豆原创 students have participated in 21 dig sites outside the United States in the past two years alone. They include sites in Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Eygpt, the Philippines and Papua New Guinea among others.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s the combination of these opportunities and faculty expertise that has drawn students to the 麻豆原创 program. The faculty has some nationally known researchers, such as John Schultz an associate professor who has appeared on televised shows and served as an expert witness on several high-profile court cases in Central Florida, and there also are up-and-comers who are pushing the edges of the field.<\/p>\n