Mike Carson's Archaeology Page

I am a doctoral student in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Hawaii. My dissertation concerns inter-cultural contact and exchange in prehistory. I also do quite a lot of work with information technology, multi-media, the internet, and film/video. My fieldwork experiences have been in California, Ireland, Hawaii, the Marquesas Islands, and New Caledonia. For my dissertation, I'm working in New Caledonia.


Here are some sites I find most useful as an archaeologist ...

ArchNet
ArchNet at the University of Connecticut offers information on regions, subjects, academic departments, and more.

SAA Web
SAA Web is the offocial web-site for the Society for American Archaeology.

Funding
Funding for anthropology research This is a gopher index with descriptions of funding sources and updated contact information.

University of Hawaii
The University of Hawaii Department of Anthropology homepage has information about the academic program, undergraduate study, graduate study, faculty, and course listings. More details are under construction.


Research Projects in which I Am or Have Been Involved

Marquesas Islands
Archaeology in the Marquesas Islands was the focus of most of my energies for 1996 and 1997. You can read about the fieldwork and the continuing project.

New Caledonia
Archaeology in New Caledonia is what I am doing for my doctoral dissertation at the University of Hawaii. With this link, you can see some neat photos. You can also see some maps, and you can read a cool story. More archaeology-related information will be added continually.

Archaeology in Ireland: The Celtic High Cross
You can learn about my investigations of the Celtic high cross in Clonmacnois (County Offaly, Ireland).

More?
Information about more of my own archaeology projects will be online soon, updated whenever appropriate.


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