Course in Archaeological Field Conservation

Professional Development Course for Archaeological Field
Conservation
3 week course
September 8, 1997 to September 26, 1997 Memorial
University/Ferryland Conservation Laboratory, Colony of Avalon
Interpretation Centre, Ferryland, Newfoundland, Canada.
$500.00 (Canadian)

The site of excavation for the Ferryland Project lies on a headland
of the Avalon Peninsula of Newfoundland, Canada.  The excavation of
a seventeenth-century colonial plantation has to date revealed ruins
of a forge, waterfront, road and dwellings affording for the
conservation, restoration and research of various artifact types.
The burial environment too has provided many challenges to the
conservator as the natural geological environment and subsequent
human influence upon it have produced a complex
mineralogical/elemental system.  Thus students attending this course
will be exposed to numerous organic and inorganic materials in
different degrees of preservation.  Exposure of the  routine
conservation practices will provide students with the knowledge and
skills to operate an archaeological field conservation laboratory.
In addition students may have the opportunity to do a more in-depth
examination, conservation treatment or restoration of a specific
artifact type.

The course is designed for graduates of a conservation discipline or
equivalent.  For further details and an application form contact:

    Ms. Cathy Mathias
    Archaeological Conservator
    Department of Anthropology
    Queen's College
    Memorial University of Newfoundland
    St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada A1C 5S7
    + 1 709 737 7572
    Fax: +1 709 737 2374
    cmathias<-a t->morgan< . >ucs< . >ca

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