Ancient Egypt, Greece & Rome

Archaeological Sites

The pages providing any information on paid employment positions are listed in the "Archaeological Digs: Paid positions" category, even if they also provide information on student or volunteer opportunities.

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Archaeological Digs: Paid Positions

Archaeological Digs Bulletin - Search for archeological sites providing paid, volunteer, or field school opportunities geographically. (Archaeological Institute of America).

ArchaeologyFieldwork.com
A forum with archeological digs employment listings.

Shovelbums.org
A yahoogroups mailing list (emails on both volunteer and work opportunities on archeological sites). Instructions and postings archive is available on the site.
 

Archeological Digs: Volunteer Positions

Archaeological expeditions (EarthWatch Institute)
Archeological digs for people from age 16 to unlimited in various parts of the world. The price of each project, which we call your Share of Cost (SOC), covers your food, accommodation, on-site travel (not airfare), and all of the various costs of field research (field permits, equipment, etc.). These costs vary for each expedition.

ArchaeoExpeditions - Canada
Archeological digs in an Iroquoian village is the northern most settlement on top of the Niagara Escarpment in the Crawford Lake area (near Acton, Ontario). Settlement dated A.D. 1560-1580.

Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA
Does not list its archaeological excavations but provides a contact email and a phone number.

Archaeologyfieldwork.com
A forum with listings of volunteer opportunities on various archaeological sites.

ArchaeoSpain
International archeological Digs: mostly volunteer but also some field schools.

Castell Henllys
A project with training archaeological excavations involving research on Iron Age, Romano-British, post-Roman, medieval and post-medieval (historic) archaeology, based at Castell Henllys but also at other archeological sites in the region. International archaeological field schools and training excavations available (U of York, York, UK).
 

Archeological Sites: Archaeological Field Schools:

U of Bristol, Dept. of Archaeology
Archaeological field schools offered by Department of Archaeology, University of Bristol, UK

Archaeologyfieldwork.com
A forum with archaeological field schools listings.

Archeological Dig at Sanisera Roman City (Menorca, Spain)
A summer 2004 course description and information on the archeological dig (The Cap de Cavalleria Ecomuseum).

Archaeology and the Historic Environment
Summer field schools in archeology (Bournemouth University, Poole, Dorset, UK).

Castell Henllys
A project with training archaeological excavations involving research on Iron Age, Romano-British, post-Roman, medieval and post-medieval (historic) archaeology, based at Castell Henllys but also at other archeological sites in the region (U of York, York, UK).