NMSU Belize Summer Field School

Location: Blue Creek, Belize

Season: June 12, 2025 to July 6, 2025

Session Dates: 6/12/2025 - 7/06/2025

Application Deadline: April 1, 2025

Deadline Type: Rolling

Website: https://studyabroad.nmsu.edu/index.cfm?FuseAction=Programs.ViewProgramAngular&id=58150

Program Type:
Field School

RPA Certified:
No

Affiliation:
New Mexico State University

Project Director:
Dr. Thomas C. Hart

Project Description:

The NMSU Belize Summer Field School is a 6-credit archaeology field school that satisfies a Viewing the Wider World requirement and runs from 12 June – 6 July. The field school is part of the much larger Programme for Belize Archaeological Project, an interdisciplinary program run by the University of Texas at Austin designed to conduct groundbreaking research on the daily lives of the Late Classic (AD 900) Maya. Students from NMSU will be work and live alongside students from UT Austin, Western Colorado University, and several other schools in the tropical jungles of the Rio Bravo Conservation and Management Area of northwest Belize. Students will excavate one of the main plazas of the city of La Milpa. Aside from learning how to do archaeology, students will have a chance to gain hands on experience with different archaeological specialties such as paleoethnobotany and ceramics, participate in local cultural events such as the Mesoamerican ballgame, and visit other Maya sites in the region such as Lamanai.

Period(s) of Occupation: Late Classic (ca AD 900) Maya

Project Size: 1-24 participants

Minimum Length of Stay for Volunteers: Four weeks

Minimum Age: 17

Experience Required: Undergraduate standing.

Room and Board Arrangements:
An Education Abroad program placement fee, international health insurance, summer tuition (if taking for credit) and a FLIP program fee will be charged to the student account during the summer semester. The program fee includes: Shared housing in a dorm building or tents Transportation to archeological sites Three meals a day at the camp Non-NMSU affiliated participants must sign and pre-authorize a credit card payment for the education abroad program placement fee, international health insurance, flip program fee, and professional background check fee.  Program Fee $2,605.00 Program Placement Fee $250 International Health Insurance (1 month - subject to change) $63.65 Billable subtotal: $2,918.65

Academic Credit:
6-credits