Archaeology (Resource Management) Internships

I had the chance to do an internship for archeology and I enjoyed every minute of it! During the internship, I volunteered to do administrative tasks and reports on historical research. We are also encouraged to attend staff and planning meetings. I feel like I am really an archaeologist already! Even though it would take me three years more.

it was a new knowledge for me to know how to catalog artifacts.. we did a lot of research and digging and interviewing.. the experts we met on the field are very helpful to us.. cared for us like we are babies.. For me, the experience is okay. I would recommend it to my friends.

Thank you, IGS, for this wonderful experience. It was actually a surprise that I liked it so much. My expectations were low, but you exceeded them a million times! The accommodation is superb, and my co-interns too! We did a lot of research and actual digging, and we had to hike to get to the excavation site. It was not boring at all, because my co-interns are so silly and making jokes the whole time.

All I can attest to is that this internship is intensive. We experienced all forms of research - from the actual dig to reading into libraries to interviewing residents near the area. Archeology is my current Minor in college, and these exhaustive works excite me much. Some people see archeological digging as “dirty” but no, it’s not! Discovering an artifact and studying the ancient human past through material remains are so much more interesting than lying around and being “clean”.

It was my first time to go out of my country, and it was remarkable. In my IGS internship, we worked with well-known university researchers, and are assigned both field and laboratory works. I was personally delegated to conduct research on historical events and collect the oral histories of the area. I used to read in my textbooks that the oldest traces of human presence in Quito were excavated by my favourite American archaeologist Robert Bell in 1960, on the slopes of the Ilaló volcano. I can’t believe I’m doing the same things he used to do, and on the same place!

Greetings!​ I spent my fall in Malawi, Africa before joining Intern Down Under. I interned with an archaeologist in Sydney and at an animal park in Auckland. I helped organize some weekend excursions for the group to Hobbiton where Lord of the Rings was filmed and to a mountain getaway on the coast. Sampling new restaurants is a favorite pastime and you can see some of my restaurant and excursion reviews below.