Internships/Practicums

Archaeological Survey and Site Recording Methods Internship/PracticumSurvey and Site Recording Interns at Cache Creek

This internship/practicum is typically offered every fall semester through the SSU Anthropology Department.

Students learn how to survey in varied terrain and conditions, locate and map sites, record both prehistoric and historic-era resources using GPS, and how to complete DPR site-record forms for a variety of site types. Interns produce final versions of site records for submittal to the Northwest Information Center using Word, Adobe Illustrator, and ESRI ArcGIS Pro software. 


Spring 2019 interns recording a site at Las Posadas State ForestCRM Project Management Internship/Practicum

This internship/practicum is typically offered every spring semester through the SSU Anthropology Department.

Students complete each project from initial client contact through sending reports to the managing agency, as well as conducting background record searches, environmental studies, and site record forms. They also learn about staffing and scheduling by using each other as crew members on every project, and assigning roles based on experience and interests.

 

Collections Management InternshipStudent Cleaning Artifact for Collections Internship

Every semester, ASC offers an Archaeological Collections Management internship for students. The internship develops students' practical and working knowledge of curation practices and standards in archaeology, and familiarizes them with the prehistoric and/or historic-era material culture of the local area.

Typical collections management projects include methods of updating and inventorying an existing collection:

  • Creating a status survey of DAF collections documents 
  • Physically comparing a collection to the catalog on record 
  • Making corrections and entering them into a spreadsheet
  • Bringing the collection up to current curation standards

In this way, the students gain a preliminary knowledge of artifacts as well as a better understanding of collections management. As a final step in the upgrade of each collection, the interns digitize all paper documentation associated with the collection.

 

Technology Internship at ASCCRM Field Internships in Technology

ASC’s new Technology in CRM Field Internship provides hands-on experience and insights on how to apply digital technologies in a CRM project. Students are trained in the use of Ground Penetrating Radar, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs or Drones), Photogrammetry, Global Positioning Systems, Total Station survey technologies, and how to incorporate the collected data into a Geographical Information System (GIS) Project.