Field Schools
Stepping out of the classroom and into the field
The anthropology program at Missouri State offers one or more archaeological field schools for undergraduate students every year. In addition to 3-6 hours of course credit as ANT 351, field schools give you an opportunity to acquire the basic skills required of a field archaeologist and to see if this is a career for you.
In recent years, field schools have been conducted at the following sites:
- McKenzie-Townsend Site - Greene County, MO (2025)
- Phenix Marble Company Town - Greene County, MO (2019, 2022, 2024)
- Bull Mills - Christian County, MO (2021, 2023)
- Osage Indian Hunting Camp (2018)
- Ash Grove Company Town Site and Reeves Site - Ash Grove, MO (2017)
- Swan Creek Osage Hunting Camp - Christian County, MO (Summer 2016)
- Valles Caldera National Preserve - New Mexico (Study Away, Summer 2016)
- Horseshoe Sinkhole Site (Summers 2012 and 2015)
- Valles Caldera National Preserve - New Mexico (Study Away, Summer 2015)
- Bluefields - a coastal community in Jamaica (Study Away, 2012, Winter Intersession 2014-2015)
- Historical Archaeology at the Reeves Site - Ash Grove, MO (2014)
- Smallin Cave - Christian County, MO (Summer 2014)
- The Writer Site - Lawrence County, MO (Summer 2013)
- Historical Archaeology at the McKinley Site - Walnut Grove, MO (Summer 2013)
- Pryor Mountains - south central Montana (Summer 2011)
- Berry Homestead - Ash Grove, MO (Summer 2011)
- Nathan Boone Homestead - Ash Grove, MO (Summer 2010)
- Judy’s Cave - Wright County, MO (Summer 2010)
- Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield - near Springfield, MO (Summers 2008 and 2009)
- The Delaware Town Site - Nixa, MO (Summer 2007)