A field school for learning Stone Age hunter-gatherer technologies is open for registration. It is open to anyone, internationally, as long as you are physically fit.
Wild Cognition runs from June 6th to 26th, the first week on campus at UCCS in Colorado Springs, the second and third are camping outdoors in a beautiful environment in Kansas.
Students will learn a number of skills such as flint knapping, foraging, trapping, shelter building, animal processing, cordage, and fire making. Students will build their own camp, construct and run their own experiment, and then afterwards will excavate the camp as if it was an archaeological site. The course is designed to count as fieldwork hours for archaeology/anthropology students and will provide transfer credits, but is open to anyone anywhere as long as they are physically fit and able. The course can also be part of the online Certificate in Cognitive Archaeology that the university offers.
The course is being led by Klint Janulis, US Army Special Forces veteran and survival instructor, and recent host of Channel 5's 10,000BC. The course also includes lectures from top cognitive archaeologists in the field.
The base cost is $1200 USD (more if it is for university transfer credits).
If anyone has any questions about it feel free to PM me, or email Professor Thomas Wynn whose email is listed at the bottom of this linked pamphlet which also has more information about the course:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B322GWKTSKzNUWltNmlzblMzaHc
The Facebook group for the Center of Cognitive Archaeology will be sharing photos from the course when it ran last year, if you would like to get more of an idea: https://www.facebook.com/UCCSCenterForCognitiveArchaeology/
Hope to see you in June!
Wild Cognition runs from June 6th to 26th, the first week on campus at UCCS in Colorado Springs, the second and third are camping outdoors in a beautiful environment in Kansas.
Students will learn a number of skills such as flint knapping, foraging, trapping, shelter building, animal processing, cordage, and fire making. Students will build their own camp, construct and run their own experiment, and then afterwards will excavate the camp as if it was an archaeological site. The course is designed to count as fieldwork hours for archaeology/anthropology students and will provide transfer credits, but is open to anyone anywhere as long as they are physically fit and able. The course can also be part of the online Certificate in Cognitive Archaeology that the university offers.
The course is being led by Klint Janulis, US Army Special Forces veteran and survival instructor, and recent host of Channel 5's 10,000BC. The course also includes lectures from top cognitive archaeologists in the field.
The base cost is $1200 USD (more if it is for university transfer credits).
If anyone has any questions about it feel free to PM me, or email Professor Thomas Wynn whose email is listed at the bottom of this linked pamphlet which also has more information about the course:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B322GWKTSKzNUWltNmlzblMzaHc
The Facebook group for the Center of Cognitive Archaeology will be sharing photos from the course when it ran last year, if you would like to get more of an idea: https://www.facebook.com/UCCSCenterForCognitiveArchaeology/
Hope to see you in June!
