Volunteering Abroad on Archaeology Projects, Gap Year Work and Internships

Volunteering Abroad on Archaeology Projects

Our voluntary Archaeology Projects offer you the opportunity to get some quality, professional work-experience in a truly fascinating area. Whether you are a school or college student hoping to study a related university course during a gap year, an archaeology undergraduate or postgraduate looking to enhance you CV or simply somebody looking to pursue an amateur interest in this field, we have a placement that will suit you, your skills and your level of experience.

Volunteer abroad on archaeology projects

Archaeology is a field which encompasses a variety of different areas. It essentially attempts to study the cultures of the past by looking at the physical remains; this means it includes elements of history, architecture, geology, anthropology, art, surveying and engineering, as well as countless other subjects. Our placements attempt to let you experience as much of this diversity as possible

Our archaeology related projects are located in Peru and Romania. Either location offers something very different, but they both benefit from the same unrivalled support from our directly employed local staff and the security that comes from having a community of Projects Abroad volunteers close at hand.

Peru – Inca Project

Our three-stranded placement, located in the Sacred Valley of the Incas, has you usually working two days a week on a number of significant Incan archaeological sites and out on organised expeditions in search of new sites. Volunteers also engage in important community projects in the local village and work on projects around the shared volunteer house, where all volunteers live together.

Gap year work abroad on archaeology internships

Romania – Archaeology

Our Romania placement has a purely archaeological focus and there is a strong scientific basis to much of the work that you will be doing here. Volunteers can work on a number of sites, depending on the time of year they wish to work (digs take place from April to October), and cover a number of periods as part of their work, from Neolithic through to Medieval times.