Excavation and Lab

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Sign up now for 2012!

Sign up for an excavation and/or lab program, where your discoveries make a real and lasting contribution to our collective understanding of the Pueblo past!

It's not too early to make reservations—a $300 deposit holds your spot in any of the following 2012 excavation and lab programs.

Read about our current field project.

Archaeology Research Program description

2012 Archaeology Research Program

Working side-by-side with professional archaeologists, you'll excavate at our current site and assist in artifact analyses that are vital to the reconstruction of ancient lifeways. Read more.

Weeks Open to Novices and Alumni:
June 3–9 (canceled), June 10–16, July 22–28, August 5–11, August 12–18, August 19–25, August 26–September 1, 2012

Week Open to Alumni Only:
October 7–13, 2012

Tuition per Person
Novice: Member* $1,395; Nonmember: $1,520
Senior Novice (age 55+): Member* $1,350; Nonmember $1,475
Alumni: Member* $1,250; Nonmember $1,375
Super Alumni (10+ programs): $1,225
Senior Alumni (age 55+): $1,225
Super Senior Alumni (age 55+ and 10+ programs): $1,175

2012 Archaeology Lab Program

Want to learn more about artifacts and how laboratory analysis fits into the overall research process? In the Archaeology Lab Program, adults get a chance to work with some of the 75,000 artifacts that we recover during an average field season. Read more.

October 7–13, 2012
Tuition per person: Member* $1,395; Nonmember $1,520

Family Archaeology Week trip description

2012 Family Archaeology Week

Make your next family vacation an archaeology adventure! This program focuses on fun, hands-on activities that introduce you and your family to archaeology and the history and culture of the ancestral Pueblo Indians. Read more.

July 22–28, 2012
Tuition per person:
Adult Member* $1,395; Nonmember $1,520
Youth (ages 10 to 17) $1,125

* Minimum $100 membership required to receive member price.

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The Crow Canyon Archaeological Center's programs and admission practices are open to applicants of any race, color, nationality, ethnic origin, gender, or sexual orientation.