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Chiltern Archaeology can provide a range of educational services from professional training to adult education and schools. We also offer a varied talks programme (for the list see under 'Talks' in the main menu or click here ):

Professional training:

Various courses are run throughout the year, but in-house training can be arranged and tailored to specific requirements. Please ask us for information and costs for any of your requirements. Training is exceptionally good value. Geological and archaeological field techniques, methods of analysis or general topics can be offered at a range of levels. Details of the next training courses Geology for Archaeologists: 1. Rocks, landscapes and sources 3rd/4th April 2012 and, 2. Sediments, soils and environments5th/6th September 2012 are available from the links above.

 

Adult Education

Course information for this year can be seen above under the link 'Courses'. However, we can run a programme specially tailored to any group that approaches us. Courses can be 2 hour sessions run over several weeks or tailored to fit a day-school or weekend course. Courses that have proved popular in the past are:

Archaeology of the Chilterns
Geology for archaeologists
Soils, sediments and environments
Interpretating ancient environments
The Romans in Bucks (day-school)
Introduction to archaeology
Archaeological fieldwork - an introduction
The Vale of the White Horse (field trip)
From the Ice Age to the Saxons in Wallingford
The Iron Age in Oxfordshire (field trip)
The Iron Age in Buckinghamshire (field trip)
The Iron Age in Buckinghamshire (day-school)
Stone tools: an introduction (day-school)
An archaeological taste of Turkey

If you are an individual wishing to join a course then also visit www.rocksafoot.com

 

Field tours abroad

Regular field tours include:

Cappadocia (Central Turkey): Neolithic to Byzantine to  a supervolcano!
Lycia (Southern Turkey): Lycians, Byzantines and Ottomans
The Dordogne, France (Neanderthals, Cro-Magnons to Homo sapiens)
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