Le Piage Paleolithic site, University of Bordeaux field school

Master's students in Archeological and Archeological sciences at the University of Bordeaux complete a three-week fieldwork course. This off-campus course is based on the excavation of archeological sites. The aim is to train students in the ins and outs of fieldwork through a hands-on approach which involves project design (including legislative and regulatory constraints), excavation set-up, excavation methods and tools, data collection and analyses, and the design and writing of a final excavation report. From 2017 until 2022, this field school has been conducted at the Pleistocene hunters-gatherer base camp of Le Piage (Fajoles, Lot, France). Video made by the Service Audiovisuel et Multimedia at the University of Bordeaux. Financial support from the French government in the framework of the University of Bordeaux’s IdEx “Investments for the Future programs in the field of higher education and research” through the Soutien à la Transformation et à l’Expérimentation Pédagogiques (STEP) project Immersion dans les Terrains de l’Anthropologie biologique et de la Préhistoire (ITAP; OPE-2018-0181; 2018-23; to P. Bayle and J.-G. Bordes) and the Grand Programme de Recherche (GPR) Human Past. It also received financial support from the Cluster of Excellence in Archaeological Sciences of Bordeaux LabEx LaScArBx (ANR-10-LABX-52) through the PREHISTERR (2016-20; to J.-G. Bordes) project, from the Région Nouvelle-Aquitaine through the Apprendre Différemment avec les Néandertaliens Récents : humanités passées, humanités croisées au cœur de l’innovation scientifique, pédagogique et culturelle (ADNER; AAPR2021-2020-11779310; 2021-26; to P. Bayle), and Neanderthalenses aquitanensis : territoires, chronologie, humanité (NATCH; 2016-1R40204; to J.-Ph. Faivre) projects, and from the Services Régionaux de l’Archéologie Occitanie through funding for the fieldwork.