PARTICIPATION IN SEPE - Part II

	SEPE STUDENT RESEARCH PROGRAM: The Survey and Excavation Projects in Egypt (SEPE) offer diverse archaeological course credits, archaeological training, fieldwork participation, employment, and research and publication opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students and various specialists.
	Diverse archaeological research program: The scope of SEPE is widespread in time periods, sites, and contexts. The excavation program in Egypt covers diverse time periods, such as the late Old Kingdom to First Intermediate Period (ca.2200-2000 B.C., New Kingdom (ca.1550-1069 B.C.), Late Period (ca.664-332 B.C.), and the late Roman to Ottoman periods (ca.5th-16th centuries). The sites include ones in the eastern delta (Tell Tebilla) and South Sinai (el-Markha Plain), with selected materials from Mendes (East Delta) and other sites in Egypt. The contexts include housing, industrial areas, mining camps, copper furnaces, a fort, burials, tombs, and remnants of a temple.

	Student fieldwork training and participation: SEPE incorporates training for students in diverse aspects of archaeology, including stratigraphic excavation, recording, drawing plans, sections, and artefacts, surveying and mapping, coring, osteology, and other related fields in archaeology. (The SEPE site book and other recording systems are provided elsewhere in this website to assist students and others prior to each field season). In addition, field trips to museums and archaeological sites provide a broader cultural background to the excavation and research program covered by SEPE.

	Student employment: Each project grant application to the Canadian government (SSHRCC) includes a student employment component, providing sufficient funds to cover a total of 40 hours per week of employment divided amongst two to three graduate students and specialist(s). The current project employees, Stan Klassen, Shari Stephens, and Arlette Londes, are employed primarily in digitizing pottery, sections, plans, and photographs, and data base entry. Contract work is provided annually for such requirements as English-to-Arabic translations and pottery and artefact drawings.
	Student work-study program: The student work-study program trains three undergraduate and graduate student employees per year: e.g., 2003-4: Sarah Dedecker, Gary Miklawic, and Maureen Rode. Project supervisor, Shari Stephens, trains students in various essential archaeological computer skills, such as scanning and digitizing pottery (using Adobe Photoshop, illustrator, and other programs), and processing excavation materials.
	Mentorship/independent study course: There are opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students to obtain course credits through research projects associated with project materials. For instance, artefact and pottery studies are available for research papers supervised by the project director, providing students with original research opportunities, experience, and contributions to the field in exchange for course credit.
	Student and other research and publication opportunities: The extant excavation materials obtained to-date, and future materials, provide ample resources for student research and publication opportunities. For instance, Deborah Donnelly is conducting a study on the shells from Tell Markha and the Islamic pottery from Tell Ras Budran (South Sinai); Kei Yamamoto is examining the “pie crust”-style pottery from Tell Tebilla; Stan Klassen is conducting petrographic analyses on pottery from Tell Markha; Rexine Hummel is overseeing the current study on pottery from Tell Tebilla and South Sinai; Sarah Parcak is pursuing satellite image analysis for site detection concerning the East Delta and South Sinai; Dr. Monica Bontty and Fran Cahill are researching and publishing the Demotic and Phoenician inscriptions from Tell Tebilla. Alison Graver and Peter Sheldrick are studying and publishing the human remains from Tell Tebilla (with assistance from Alwyn Burridge and Laura Chinery); Dr. Maryvonne Chartier-Raymond is contributing an article on her previous work in el-Markha Plain to the current SEPE research in this area. Dr. Laurence Pavlish is contributing to SEPE the results of his magnetometer and coring work from Tell Tebilla and el-Markha Plain.

Participation in SEPE - Part I
Dig Opportunities
Guide to Recording System