The Subject line should be:  Student Summer Fieldwork Opportunity in Belize
 

Study Maya Ceramics in Belize<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
Dates to be finalized; approximately June 15 to August 18, 2007
 

I am looking for two students (undergraduate or postgraduate) to help me conduct an analysis of the Postclassic period (ca. A.D. 900- 1540) ceramics of Lamanai, a Maya site in northern Belize, Central America.  This summer’s research will not involve excavation.
 
Conditions will be very basic.  There is no electricity at the site or in the village (Indian Church, a 20 minute walk from the site, population about 500) and housing there is of poor quality.  We will be working in the hot, humid, and very buggy (malarial) rainy season.  Food at the village’s one ‘restaurant’ will be simple and repetitive (mainly rice/beans/chicken or tamales), and they cannot accommodate vegetarians.  Patience and a sense of humour are therefore required!  I am especially interested in students with drawing and/or photography skills, and with a computer that runs Windows for data entry (we will need two or three).
 
Costs:  A British Academy small grant will pay for your return airfare. Food, part of the lodging expense, and incidental expenses will be your responsibility.  Students should budget about £10 per day for food and £5/day for lodging (these expenses may be slightly reduced).
 
You will have at least one week off in early July for optional travel.  I try to work an average of 5 days a  week but we may work some weekends to allow other, longer weekends off, as buses only run to Indian Church on Tuesdays and Thursdays.  For more details contact  Jim Aimers (jim_aimers@...).  I will be arranging brief interviews as soon as possible and decisions will have to be made very soon.

 


James J. Aimers, Ph.D.
Institute of Archaeology, University College London
31-34 Gordon Square
London, England
WC1H-0PY
Office phone (0) 20 7679 7532  FAX (0)20 7383 2572
Mobile 0796 260 5837
UCL webpage:  http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/staff/profiles/aimers.htm
Personal webpage http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~tcrnjja/