A Chance To Eat The Whole Pie

Firstly, Sondor program is very unique compared to other field schools. From my past experience with other field schools, is you go out to the site, learn the methods of archaeology, do all the research for graduates, and post-graduates, because undergraduates are not allowed to ask or answer their own individual questions. Crazy right! We are meant to think, and ask logical and rational questions as scientist, and develop our own research design. This all starts with context and being in the field. Well, in the Sondor program Dr. Kurin, helped her students develop a research design mix with field experience. That's right. Not only she teaches us about the slices of pie that makes archaeology diverse and practical, she teaches us how to bake that whole delicious pie. Archaeology is about understanding the context of materials at the site until making their way into the lab. Students get a rare chance to recover human remains of the Chanka, and do further analyses on those remains when coming back into the lab. This program helped and encourage me to ask my own questions like "what was the estimated stature of the Chanka population?" and followed by my own individual research on the weekends to try to answer this curious question I had, and now I am presenting my data at the 2018 SAA in Washington D.C. This program not only supports, but encourage students to become the next scholar in Anthropology.