what: the Archaeo-Volunteers Guide lists about 200 projects and organisations across five continents. It contains an index by geographical area and period for selecting
projects: the ideal resource for those who wish to experience the excitement of an archaeological excavation. These projects, in Europe, North and South America, the Middle East and Asia, require no previous experience.

Excavations range from Paleo-christian churches in Jordan to the sites of the first native Americans in Alaska, to the defence walls on a Venetian island. A detailed list of useful websites allows you to find even more opportunities in heritage restoration and preservation, to volunteer in museums, or to discover other archaeological excavations. The introduction gives all the information you need on how to start and what to expect.

If you purchase the guide online you will have immediate access to nearly 500 projects listed in the Green Volunteers Network Pages! (See Ordering the Guide for details.)

work camps: for young people and students, the Guide provides an extensive list of work camps, and of work camp organisation networks, with hundreds of opportunities to preserve cultural heritage worldwide. It is possible to share the experience with other people from all over the world. Projects include rebuilding dry stone walls in Italy and Greece, restoring castles in France, or preserving US historical sites in National Parks.

Dozens of field schools are listed for those who want to learn more about archaeology and excavation techniques. Field schools range from Roman digs in the UK, Italy or the Middle East to an underwater archaeology school for divers in Sicily, and from palaeontology excavation techniques in western Canada to Maya temples in Belize. University credit may be obtained from most of the field schools.

projects: some of the projects carried out in 2004…

excavation at an archaeological site near the town of Kodiak, Alaska;

excavation of a Palaeolithic site in the mountains of northern Spain;

recovery of the island of Lazzaretto Novo in the Venetian Lagoon;

a field school to investigate Scottish Medieval rural settlements;

a multi-period excavation of the Whitefriars friary in historical Canterbury;

a centre dedicated to the long-term study of the Pueblo culture, in a Colorado excavation site,

survey and documentation of an ancient Roman road near Rome;

excavation of a major Maya site in Belize.