FOSA Continuing Education
FOSA offers occasional classes and guest speakers open to an audience of FOSA and ASC members, at no cost, to enhance their understanding of contemporary archaeological techniques, method and theory.
Courses range from informative site talks to challenging upper-level undergraduate material. Presentations are designed for an audience of highly motivated high school students and adults of all ages who have an avocational interest in the archaeology of Connecticut.
This is a FOSA program, unaffiliated with any school or university. Courses are presented at no cost.
Past Courses
America 250: Revolutionary
Connecticut Research Project
Through readings, lecture and class discussion, we will look for distinctive American/Connecticut Revolutionary Period (1768-1784) patterns revealed in the archaeological record, museum collection artifacts, and around us in the State’s landscape.
Focus will be given to individual artifacts, archaeological assemblages, sites, and extent 18th-century elements of our landscape, each of which provides insight into Revolutionary Connecticut.
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Pre-Clovis – A Critical Assessment
The Clovis archaeological horizon has been viewed as a marker of the first, relatively quick human dispersal throughout North America beginning approximately 13,600 cal. years BP. This “Clovis-first” theory is challenged by tantalizing reports of earlier human occupation.
We will focus on recent reports of Pre-Clovis archaeological data. Three articles will be assigned readings in advance of each class. Through this study, we will gain an appreciation of current theories and the supportive data on the peopling of the western hemisphere, while sharpening our critical thought skills.
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Introduction to Lithic Analysis
This course provides an introduction to lithic analysis following Andrefsky’s work Lithics: Macroscopic Approaches to Analysis, 2nd ed.
The objective is for FOSA members to gain basic facility with terminology, classification, and analysis of stone tools and stone tool production debris through seven weekly online courses supplemented by self-study reading assignments.
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