Membership is open to all students of North Dakota State University, Minnesota State University - Moorhead, and Concordia College regardless of race, color, sex, religion, nationality, or sexual orientation.

Club Fees: $5/semester

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"This field school is a marvelous opportunity for NDSU students to work in the most anthropologically compelling place in the world,"

     Charles Musiba
     Assistant Professor of Anthropology
 

Previous Field School in Tanzania

Students have the opportunity to work in two major paleoanthropological sites in Tanzanina. First, students will travel to Laetoli to assist in digital mapping of Laetoli paleoanthropological site. This site has produced hominid footprints of Australopithecus afarensis, dated at 3.5 million years old, which are the earliest evidence of the evolution of upright posture and bipedal gait in humans. Students will also have the chance to work at Olduvai side gorge, which is contiguous with the site of Laetoli.

Throughout the field school students will travel to Olduvai Main Gorge and receive lectures from various archaeologists currently working at the gorge. Olduvai Gorge is an archaeological site of an ancient river where numerous remains dating from 15,000 to 2.1 million years ago have been found.

Second, students will also have an opportunity to work with Maasai people of the Laetoli area to help train the Maasai as cultural guides so that they may help preserve various localities with cultural heritage.

Students interested in participating in the Summer 2003 field school should contact Dr. Musiba.