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Processional Panel, Utah
I am
the director of the FLC archaeological field school and a visiting
faculty member of the Department of Anthropology.
I have over 35 years of professional experience in archaeology. I
have technical and management experience in remote sensing
(electrical resistance and fluxgate magnetometer), Total Station and
Theodolite mapping, digital photography, GIS, and computer database
management. I have extensive skills in the areas of geoarchaeological
interpretation, laboratory analysis, report writing and production,
large and small-scale inventory projects, large and small-scale testing
projects, large and small-scale excavation projects, grant writing,
teaching, and public outreach.
I am a member of the Colorado Council of Professional
Archaeologists, the Society for American Archaeology, and the Rocky
Mountain Anthropological Association. Most
recently I am a member of the Council for the Status of Women in
Archaeology, a committee of the Society of American Archaeology. I
have authored or co-authored over 30 archaeological reports and
has presented results of her research nation-wide.
My latest publications include The Earliest Mesa Verdeans, Hunters,
Foragers, and First Farmers, a chapter in The Mesa Verde World,
edited by David Grant Noble and two articles in a special edition of
KIVA (Vol.72:No.2) on Basketmaker II.
I
have been conducting research in the mountains in and around Southwest
Colorado for over 25 years. My
research currently emphases the origins and nature of the Colorado
Basketmakers from indigenous hunters and gatherers to horticulturalists.
This research involves examining archaeological, geological and
paleoenvironmental data to interpret the prehistory of the area around
Durango during this time period.
Most recently, I
have become involved with the Old Fort Lewis Task Force. This task force is
dedicated to the preservation of the cultural and natural recourses at the
Old Fort Lewis Campus, near Hesperus, CO. The Archaeological Field School
now operates from the Old Fort Lewis Campus, where we are presented with
historic, protohistoric, and historic sites. Most of the sites that we work
on date to the military presence here in Southwest Colorado (1878 - 1881). The field school instructs students
in general archaeological methods and techniques including; Total Station
Mapping, Remote Sensing, Cultural Resource Survey, Artifact Identification,
GPS and GIS.
In addition to
teaching the Fort Lewis College archaeological field school, I regularly
teach the following classes: Archaeological Lab Techniques,
Advanced Archaeological Lab Techniques and Geoarchaeology.
When I am not
in the classroom, I can be found roaming the labyrinths of Southeast
Utah with friends and family, hiking the San Juans, camping just about
anywhere, cooking, gardening, and playing with my three dogs: Dinah,
Memphis and Stella.
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Interests:
Basketmaker II puebloan prehistory
Historic archaeology
Geoarchaeology
Archaeometry
Geographical Information Systems
Replicative Ceramics

Current Projects:
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