Time Team America is not just a TV show. It’s also a field school for middle and high school students. Our mission: engage and inspire. Teach kids about archaeology while exposing them to a variety science, technology, engineering and math. Whether you’re a parent, an educator, an archaeologist, or a student, learn more about our program by watching this video.

Currently the Director of the Native American Studies Program at the University of Oklahoma, Dr. Joe Watkins is a Choctaw Indian and one of only a small group of American Indians with a Ph.D. in Archaeology. Joe has been an archaeologist for over 40 years, and he also serves as a mediator between various academic disciplines and members of Indigenous groups worldwide.

Dr. Allan Maca is an archaeologist trained in anthropology. For the last 15 years he has conducted field and laboratory work at the ancient Mayan city of Copan, Honduras. He has a PhD in anthropology from Harvard, and he taught archaeology, anthropology and Native American Studies at Colgate and Columbia. He loves to surf, play guitar, and sleep outside under the stars.

Duncan McKinnon spent many years working in the high-tech industry, but his interests in history and archaeology led him to make a drastic career change. Now Duncan is traveling the world as an archaeologist. He specializes in geophysics, which he quickly gravitated towards given his background in computers and technology. Currently, Duncan is a PhD student at the University of Arkansas.

Bryan Haley specializes in geophysics, remote sensing, and other high-tech methods that can be used in archaeological research. In terms of more conventional archaeology, he works primarily with prehistoric and contact-period Native American sites in the southeastern United States. He currently lives with his wife in New Orleans and is working on his dissertation at Tulane University.

Female middle school students in Woodward, OK participated in Time Team's field school during the Badger Hole excavation. To learn more about the Folsom people who used to live on this site, students visited the Sam Noble Museum of Natural History, analyzed ancient bison DNA, threw spears with Atlatls, flintknapped, and looked at bison bones over 10,000 years old.

Dr. Meg Watters specializes in Archaeo-Geophysical Data Visualization. She has worked with a number of TV programs on networks including National Geographic, Discovery Channel, PBS, and the BBC. Meg has participated in archaeological digs all over the world, including Turkey, Egypt, Greece, Morocco, Italy, the Sudan, the UK and Spain. She lives with her husband and daughter in a suburb of Boston.

Born and raised in Northern California, Chelsea Rose is a historical archaeologist who lives in Southern Oregon. Consumed with a love of history and archaeology from an early age, Chelsea's passion is researching the Frontier Gold Rushes of the nineteenth century, where her interests include Chinatowns and multi-ethnic mining camps in California and Oregon.

Justine Shapiro is an Academy Award-nominated, Emmy-Winning documentary filmmaker and television host. As co-host of the public television program Globe Trekker Justine has traveled to more than 40 countries and interviewed hundreds of locals from all walks of life.

Jeff Brown resides as a tribal member and councilman on the Pamunkey Indian Reservation in King William, VA. He entered into archaeology to help protect his tribe against a reservoir projected to be built on old tribal land. After being "bit hard by the archaeology bug," he has since worked with the College of William and Mary and the Colonial Williamsburg site in Virginia.

Time Team America held a field school in Zuni Pueblo, NM for local middle school students. Girls and boys learned about archaeology, ancient technology, and the history of the Coronado Expedition. They tried out metal detectors, conserved rusty old nails, painted traditional ceramic designs, and listened to native archaeologists talk about their experiences in the field.

Not far from Josiah Henson Special Park in Bethesda, MD, Time Team America field school students were getting hands on experience in the sciences of archaeology. Botany, zooarchaeology, and soil analysis were some, the teens also got a private tour of the bones exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution, and took a 3 hour bus ride to the Maryland Archaeological Conservation Laboratory.

Time Team America partnered with the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center in Cortez, CO to put on a field school for high school students, focusing on the time period called Basketmaker iii. Teens did activities that taught them about ancient pueblo culture, and tried their hands excavating on the Dillard site.

Currently the Founder and Executive Director of Archaeology in the Community, Dr. Alexandra Jones is an education leader focused on community outreach and service. She has taught at elementary and middle schools, high school and college. Alexandra directed field schools for junior high and high school students at each of the sites this season.

Accompany a team of archaeologists on an expedition to Jamestown and to Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace. 6/5/2012

Adrien explains why the northern plains of the Dakotas are prime for archaeologists.

Right from the start, students of archaeology learn by doing. Join the field school in New Philadelphia where students get their first hands-on experience with excavation.

Meg explains how Ground Penetrating Radar works, and why deserts are the ideal location for this method.

Meg explains the basics of geophysics and how it can help archaeologists see underground without digging. This non-invasive type of archaeology leaves sites fully intact for future generations of study.

Meg explains the basic principals of Resistivity and how it helps identify features in the ground by measuring the flow of electrical currents.