Program in Archaeology Technology and Historical Structures

Engineering student Kate Korslund ’20 finally reaches Elmina Castle, home for the field school she her classmates will be spending their summer learning about the historic importance and preservation of these coastal forts.

Hear from eight Rochester students spending this summer at a field school in Ghana. Led by Professors Renato Perucchio, Michael Jarvis, and Chris Muir, the students are studying the engineering, historical, and cultural aspects of the country's historic coastal forts.

On her first days in Ghana, mechanical engineering major Louisa Anderson ‘20 settles in for a summer at a field school near Accra, learning about the history, people – and food.

Jiacheng Sun on the incorporation of plant structures into old slave structures in Ghana, and their preservation as a result.

Gilda DeDona on the transition from tourist to researcher in her first weeks at a summer field school in Ghana.

Researchers from the U.S., Singapore, Ghana and Italy will give talks at "Analysis and Conservation of Cultural Heritage Monuments: Challenges and Approaches Across Disciplines."

Syracuse University professor and author Christopher R. DeCorse will discuss how archaeology has shown that African cultures were both transformed and maintained throughout the Atlantic World.