Mona
C. Charles
Personal
Data
Home
Address: 44
Riverfront Place
Durango,
CO 81303
Telephone:
Fort Lewis College (970)
247-7295
Home
Phone (970) 259-3981
Education:
B.A.University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, 1979
Major: Sociology/Anthropology
Minor: Geography
M.A. University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 1981
Major: Anthropology
Thesis Title: An Evaluation of Late
Woodland Subsistence
Strategies for
North Central Minnesota
Additional Education: Extended studies in Geology
Areas
of Interest and Expertise
Field
Archaeology, Geoarchaeology, Basketmaker and Early Pueblo, Historic
Archaeology, Geophysical Surveys
, Geographical Information Systems
Organization
Membership
Society
of American Archaeologists
Committee on the
Status of Women in Archaeology
Colorado
Council of Professional Archaeologists
Rocky
Mountain Anthropological Society
Personal
Statement
My professional career has provided me the opportunity to work
on a broad spectrum of archaeological projects across a large section of the
United States. These projects include archeological investigations in 12
states where I have been involved in cultural resource inventory, evaluative
testing, data recovery, and teaching archaeology to college students and
avocationalists. I have continued
my career goals in Cultural Resource Management while pursuing my own research
interests. I am currently
employed as the Director of the Archaeological Field School, research
archaeologists and part-time faculty for the Anthropology
Department at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado.
As
an undergraduate at the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, I was employed
by the University of Alabama for three summer field seasons to work on large
contract archaeological projects such as the Phipps Bend Power Plant, the
Tellico Dam, Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway,and the Widows Creek Power Plant.
After receiving my B.A. in anthropology/sociology, I worked for two years
prior to attending graduate school at the University of Nebraska, where I held
the position of teaching assistant for introductory anthropology classes.
Later, I supervised evaluative testing in Voyageurs National Park for the
National Park Service; this field work led to my thesis topic. Upon receiving
my M.A., I chose to live and work in the high plains of Wyoming, North and
South Dakota, where I was chiefly employed by private archaeological
contracting firms and the University of Wyoming, Department of Anthropology,
Laramie.
With
my family I relocated to the west slope of Colorado in 1983, where I have
lived and worked to the present. While in Colorado, I have been employed by
both private contracting firms and academic institutions.
I began working with Fort Lewis College in the summer of 1990,where I
served as field assistant for the Fort Lewis Archaeological Field
School. I continued this intermittent field school
position with Dr. W. James Judge, until sharing the co-directorship with Dr.
Judge in the summer of 1997.
My responsibilities
include directing the Fort Lewis Archaeological Field School, coordinating
with the Office of Community Services on archaeological and historic grants
and contracts and part-time
teaching for the Anthropology Department.
Many projects that I am involved in have an outreach components to
them, such as the Alvarado Cemetery in Georgetown, Colorado, Fort Crawford
Cemetery in Montrose, the Darkmold Site near Durango and the Old Fort Lewis
Campus near Hesperus, Colorado.
I have involved the Fort Lewis Field School in projects with grants
from the State Historical Society and on cooperative agreements with the
National Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Management, and the National
Park Service.
Throughout my career, I
have continuously pursued advancement in the areas of cultural resource
management, field archaeology, geoarchaeology and most recently geophysical
surveys. Presently, my time on-the-ob job is divided among directing field and
laboratory projects, report production, and working with students and staff at
Fort Lewis College.
Professional
Experience
(A compendium of professional experience is available on request)
2010-1999 Fort Lewis College, Durango:
Director of Archaeological Resources, Office of Community Services. Director,
Fort Lewis Archaeological Field School, Director, CHS grant for Archaeological
Investigations at the Darkmold Site, 5LP4991, Co-Principal Investigator and
Principal Investigator, Cooperative Agreement between Fort Lewis College and
Midwest Archeological Center (National Park Service), WAAC (Western
Archeological Conservation Center), Part-time faculty for Archaeological
Laboratory Techniques,
Advanced Archaeological Laboratory Techniques, and Geoarchaeology.
1996-1998 Fort Lewis College, Durango: Co-director,
Fort Lewis Archaeological Field School, Project Director, Cooperative Agreement
between Fort Lewis College and Midwest Archeological Center (National Park
Service), Field Director, Passports In Time, San Juan National Forest, Part-time
faculty, Landscape Archaeology.
1995
Fort Lewis College, Durango: Field
director for Fort Lewis College, USFS Passports in Time archaeological testing
in the San Juan Mountains, Archuleta County, Colorado. Field director and assistant principle investigator for Fort
Lewis College cooperative agreement with the Midwest Archaeological Center and
the U. S. Army to conduct a cultural resource inventory of 2000 acres in Booth
Mountain, Fort Carson, Colorado, Part-time professor - Landscape Archaeology
1994 Powderhorn Research, Durango: Site
survey, Durango Industrial Development Foundation.
Survey of 30 acres for proposed commercial and industrial development.
Survey, Capp Engineering. Small
survey for A-D lanes off US Highway 550, north of Durango, Colorado. Site testing, Durango Industrial Development Foundation.
Limited subsurface testing of three Basketmaker III - Pueblo I habitation
sites in Bodo Ranches Industrial Park, Durango.
Fort Lewis College.
Project director, Cooperative Agreement between Fort Lewis College and
the Midwest Archeological Center (National Park Service),
Field director for USFS evaluative testing of Site 5AA952, Freeman Park,
Archuleta County, CO.
1993-1994 Powderhorn Research, Durango: Two
site testing contracts on Forest Service lands in the San Juan National Forest.
Completion of mapping and evaluative testing of the Phantom Spring site,
41JD63, Texas.
Fort Lewis College, Durango:
Instructor for a two week course in archaeological mapping for Fort Lewis
Archaeological Field School under the direction of Dr. W. James Judge, Field
director, USFS Passports in Time
1992-1993 Powderhorn Research, Durango: Evaluative
testing and artifact analysis for the Phantom Spring site, 41JD63, Texas.
Powderhorn Research served as a subcontractor to Complete Archaeological
Service Associates, Cortez.
Fort Lewis College, Durango:
Field director for archaeological survey and assessment of Trapper's
Crossing Development, Field director, USFS
Passports in Time.
1991-1992 Fort Lewis College, Durango: Field
director for USFS Passports in Time.
Powderhorn Research, Durango:
Principal investigator for mitigation project at Chimney Rock
Archaeological Area.
Alpine Archaeological Consultants,
Montrose: Supervisor for a pedestrian survey of a portions of the Trans-Colorado
Pipeline Corridor. The survey
included right-of-way corridor from Aztec to Bloomfield, New Mexico and from
Aztec north to Red Mesa, Colorado.
Principal Investigator was Alan
Reed.
Woods Canyon Archaeological
Consultants, Yellowjacket: Crew
person for mitigation of Pueblo II and Dinetah Navajo sites along the Williams
Field Service and El Paso Natural Gas Pipeline near Aztec, New Mexico.
Principal Investigators were Jerry
Fetterman and Linda Honeycutt.
1990-1991 Office of Archaeological Studies, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe:
Cultural resource supervisor for write-up of Pueblo II and Pueblo III
sites along the Plata Highway. Field
directors were Dr. Wolky Toll and Chuck Hannaford.
1990-1991 Fort Lewis College, Durango: Assistant
field director for Fort Lewis College Archaeological Field School under the
direction of Dr. Philip Duke.
Alpine Archaeological Consultants,
Montrose: Field supervisor for pedestrian survey of the Hovenweep
Resource Protection Zone.
Principal Investigator was Alan
Reed.
1989-1990 Office of Contract Archaeology, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe:
Archaeological supervisor for the La Plata Highway Project, New Mexico.
This position included excavation of PII and PIII habitation units along
the La Plata River valley. Primary
responsibilities included supervision of the excavation of five pit structures,
three noncontiguous roomblocks, one milling room and several extramural surfaces
and associated features. Field
directors were Dr. Wolky Toll and Chuck Hannaford.
Moore Anthropological Research,
Aztec: Crew member for pipeline
corridor survey in the Gobernador region of northern New Mexico.
Principal investigator was Roger
Moore.
1988 Mariah Associates, Albuquerque: Field
supervisor for the excavation of three archaeological sites on La Plata Mines
property in northwestern New Mexico. These
sites included a PIII pottery kiln, a multicomponent habitation site with a
Basketmaker II pitstructure and a series of PIII pottery kilns, and a Dinetah
phase habitation component.
Principal Investigator was Dr. Amy
Earls.
Nickens and Associate, Montrose:
Crew person for excavation of large multicomponent site on the La Plata
Mine property. This site included a
Dinetah phase hogan, an Archaic sweatlodge and associated hearth features and a
Basketmaker II pithouse.
Principal Investigator was Alan
Reed.
1981-1984 Nickens and Associates, Montrose: Administrative
assistant to Dr. Paul Nickens for the Colorado-Ute 345 kV transmission line,
Rifle to San Juan.
Crew person for the survey of
Rifle-San Juan transmission line from Delta, Mesa and Montrose Counties,
Colorado.
Crew person for the mitigation of
multicomponent Middle Archaic to Late Prehistoric camp/habitation site along
Indian Creek, Mesa County, Colorado.
Crew person for site testing of a
Basketmaker II site along the West Dolores Road, Dolores, Colorado.
1979-1981 Larson-Tibesar Associates, Laramie:
Survey, site testing and laboratory analysis for WyCoal Gas and Kemmerer
Coal projects, Wyoming. Survey for
Minerals Exploration, Red Desert, Wyoming, survey for Oahe Reservoir, North
Dakota and survey for United States Forest Survey in the Back Hills, South
Dakota. Survey for ETSI Pipeline,
Powder River Basin, Wyoming. Site
testing and evaluation of a rock shelter and bison processing site in the Big
Horn Mountains, Wyoming. Principal investigators were Tom Larson and William
Tibesar.
Midwest Archaeological Center,
Lincoln: Archaeological Supervisor for survey and site testing of Archaic,
Middle Woodland, Late Woodland and historic Chippewa sites in Voyageurs National
Park, Minnesota. Archaeological crew person for testing of multicomponent
Archaic and Mississippian habitation sites in the Ozark Scenic Riverways of
southern Missouri. Laboratory
analysis of ceramics from Voyageurs National Park.
Research assistant report finalizing for Curecanti National Recreation
Area, Colorado and Glen Canyon National Park, Utah.
Principal Investigators:
Dr. Mark Lynott Dr. James Muller and Bruce Jones.
1975-1977 Tennessee Valley Authority: Archaeological
crewperson for University of Tennessee for Little Tennessee-Tellico Dam Project.
Field experience consisted of excavation and mapping of historic Cherokee
townhouse and habitation structures.
Principal Investigator was Dr.
Gerald Schrodel.
University of Alabama:
Archaeological field assistant for mitigation of large Mississippian
habitation site along the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, Alabama.
Principal Investigator was Mr. J.B.
Graham
Tennessee Valley Authority:
Archaeological field assistant for large mitigation project on Middle
Woodland-Copena burial mounds in northwestern Alabama.
Principal Investigator was Mr. J.B.
Graham.
Tennessee Valley Authority:
Archaeological field assistant for survey and site testing of Phipps Bend Power
Plant project, northeastern Tennessee. Several
large Middle Woodland habitation sites were tested.
Principal Investigator was Dr. Robert Lafferty.
University of Kansas:
Archaeological crewperson for site reevaluation of the Nebo Hill
archaeological site, a PaleoIndian and Early Archaic site in west central
Missouri.
Principal Investigator was Dr. Ken
Reid.
State Highway Department of
Tennessee: Archaeological
crewperson for survey and site testing of Middle Woodland and Hamilton period
sites in Hamilton County, east Tennessee.
Principal Investigator was Mr. Nick
Fielder.
1973-1975 University of Tennessee at Chattanooga:
Volunteer for excavation of Griffin's Rock Shelter, a multicomponent
Archaic to Woodland rockshelter on the Cumberland Plateau in southeastern
Tennessee.
Principal Investigator was Dr.
Duane Smith.
Tennessee Valley Authority:
Archaeological crewperson for mitigation of a large multicomponent
Archaic to Middle habitation site at Hollywood, Alabama, northeastern Alabama.
Principal Investigator was Mr. J.B. Graham.
Tennessee Valley Authority:
Student trainee at a large, multicomponent habitation site and burial
mound at Widow's Creek, northeastern Alabama.
Principal Investigators were Dr.
F.A. Calabrese, Mr. J.B. Graham.
Authorships
(This list includes manuscripts from the last 10 years; a complete list
of authorships is available upon request)
Mona
C. Charles
2006 The Earliest Mesa Verdeans: Hunters, Foragers, and
First Farmers. In The Mesa Verde World:
Explorations in Ancestral Pueblo Archaeology. Edited by David Grant
Noble, School of American Research, Santa Fe.
2005 A Report on the Archaeological Excavations at Site
5LP425, The Seven Dog Site: A Pueblo I Habitation Site, La Plata County,
Colorado. GSA Contract GS-08P-94-JWD-0060. Ms on file, Powderhorn Research,
Durango, CO.
2002
A Report on the Archaeological Excavations Conducted at Site 5LP425:
A Pueblo I Habitation Site, La Plata County, Colorado.
Draft Manuscript submitted to the General Services Administration.
2000 The
Emergency Excavation of Eleven Human Burials From Archaeological Site 5LP4991,
The Darkmold Site, La Plata County, Colorado.
Compiled and Edited by Mona C. Charles.
Ms. on file, Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO.
1998 The
Geoarchaeology of the San Juan National Forest. Appendix I In An Overview of the
Archaeological Resources in the San Juan-Rio Grande National Forest:
Mancos-Dolores, Columbine and Pagosa Districts. Ms. on file at the San
Juan National Forest, Durango, CO.
1998 A Projectile Point Chronology for
the San Juan National Forest. Appendix II In An
Overview of the Archaeological Resources in the San Juan-Rio Grande National
Forest: Mancos-Dolores, Columbine and Pagosa Districts. Ms. on file
at the San Juan National Forest, Durango, CO.
1998 A Study of High-Altitude Ceramics
on the San Juan National Forest, Appendix III. An Overview of the Archaeological
Resources in the San Juan-Rio Grande National Forest:
Mancos-Dolores, Columbine and Pagosa Districts. Ms. on file at the San
Juan National Forest, Durango, CO.
1996 The
Emergency Excavation of Three Human Burials in Bodo Industrial Ranches, La Plata
County, Colorado. Ms. on file at the State of Colorado Historic Preservation
Office, Denver.
1995 A
Cultural Resources Inventory of the Clauson Timber Sale and the Mosca Road
Rehabitation Projects, Hinsdale County, Colorado.
Ms. on file at the San Juan National Forest, Durango., Colorado.
1994 Archaeological
Evaluation and Testing, Site 41JD63, Phantom Lake Spring, Jeff Davis County,
Texas. Ms. on file at the Bureau of Land Management, Salt Lake City.
1993 Evaluative
Testing of Archaeological Site 5AA1655, Beaver Meadows Timber Sale, San Juan
National Forest. Ms. on file at the San Juan National Forest, Durango.
Charles, Mona C. and Sally J. Cole
2006 Chronology and Cultural
Variation in Basketmaker II. KIVA Vol. 72, No. 2.
Charles, Mona C., Leslie M. Sesler, and
Timothy D. Hovezak
2006 Understanding Eastern
Basketmaker II Chronology and Migrations. KIVA Vol. 72, No. 2.
Charles,
Mona C. and Ross Curtis
1997
Evaluative Testing of Archaeological Sites 5AA1910 and 5AA1914, Archuleta
County, Colorado. Ms. on file at
the State of Colorado Historic Preservation Office, Denver.
Charles,
Mona C. and Noreen Fritz
1993
A Cultural Resource Inventory of Lot7B, Bodo Ranches, La Plata County,
Colorado. Ms. on file at the State of Colorado Historic Preservation Office,
Denver.
Charles,
Mona C. And Mary L. Gillam
2003
The Geoarchaeology of the Darkmold Site, 5LP4991: A Basketmaker II and
Pueblo I Site in the North Animas Valley Near Durango, Colorado.
Report submitted in fulfillment of Colorado Historical Fund Grant.
Ms. On file, Colorado Historical Society, Denver.
Charles,
Mona C. and Beau Schriever, compilers
1999
The Reexcavation and Evaluation of 5LP135, the Hurlbutt Site:
A Basketmaker III Transitional Pueblo I Site in La Plata County,
Colorado. Ms. on file at the Department of Anthropology, Fort Lewis College,
Durango, CO.
Charles,
Mona C., Randy Nathan, and Philip Duke
1996
Evaluative Test Excavations at Eight Cultural Resources, Pinon Canyon
Maneuver Site. Ms. on file at the Department of Anthropology, Fort Lewis
College.
Charles,
Mona C., Randy Nathan, Philip Duke, Nikki Salazar, and Sean Larmore
1999
Results of a Cultural Resource Inventory of Portions of Fort Carson
military Reservation and Test Excavation of Site 5EP2524, El Paso County,
Colorado, 1996. Ms. on file at the Department of Anthropology, Fort Lewis
College, Durango, CO.
Results of the 1997 Cultural
Resource Reevaluation Project; Fort Carson Military Reservation:
El Paso, Fremont, and Pueblo Counties, Colorado. Ms. on file at the
Department of Anthropology, Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO.
Charles,
Mona C., Philip Duke, Randy Nathan, Sujan Bryan, and Christine Markussen
2000
A Cultural Resource Inventory of High- and Medium-Site Probability Areas,
Fort Carson Military Reservation: El
Paso, Fremont, and Pueblo Counties, Colorado, 1998.
Ms. on file, Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO.
Charles,
Mona C., Philip Duke, Randy Nathan, and Christine Markussen
2001
Evaluative Testing of 13 Sites on the Fort Carson Military Reservation,
El Paso and Pueblo Counties, Colorado. Ms.
on file, Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO.
Duke,
Philip and Mona C. Charles
1999
Archaeological Investigations at the Freeman Park Site (5AA952), San
Juan-Rio Grande National Forest. Ms. on file at the San Juan National Forest,
Durango, CO.
1994 Archaeological
Investigations In San Juan National Forest by Fort Lewis College:
1992-1993. Ms. on file at
the San Juan National Forest, Durango, CO.
Waldvogel, Kristen and Mona C. Charles
2005 The Results of a Small Area Survey of Hoy Bottom and
Remote Sensing at 5MF605, Browns Park National Wildlife Refuge, Moffat
County, Colorado. Report prepared for CHS, State Historic Fund Contract
#2005-AS-005. Ms. on file, Colorado Historical Society, Denver.
Papers/Poster
Presented
(This list includes papers and posters presented in the last 10 years; a complete
list of contributed papers is available upon request. Many of these are
co-authored with students and researchers in the field)
2008 A Case Study in Compliance, Stewardship and the
Advancement of
Archaeological Knowledge. Paper presented at the Society of American
Archaeology Meeting, Vancouver.
2008 Bioarchaeology of a Basketmaker II Site in
Durango, Colorado. Co-authored with Dr. Dawn
Mulhern. Paper presented at the Society for American Archaeologists Meeting,
Vancouver.
2008 Lead, Murals, and Pottery: Tracing Technologies and
Peoples of
Lowry Pueblo, Southwest Colorado. Co-authored with Sally J. Cole and Marvin
Rowe. Poster presented at the Society of American Archaeology Meeting,
Vancouver.
2007 Bioarchaeology of the Human Remains Recovered From the
Darkmold Site, 5LP4991,
Basketmaker II Site Near Durango, Colorado. paper presented at the Colorado
Council of Professional Archaeologists Meeting, Glenwood Springs, CO.
2006 Pictures of Diversity and Interaction: Documentation
and Assessment of Petroglyphs at Sites 5CN1021 and 5CN1022. Co-authored with
Sally J. Cole and Laura T. Freed. Poster presented at the Plains Conference,
Topeka, KS.
2006 Results of the Survey of the Baca Land Exchange,
Conejos County, Colorado. Co-authored with Ian Crosser. Paper presented at
Colorado Council of Professional Archaeologist Meeting, Estes Park,
Colorado.
2006 In Search of Fort Davy Crockett - Again: GIS, Remote
Sensing, and the Hoy Bottom Survey. Co-authored with Kristen Waldvogel and
Connie Bennett. Poster presented at the Colorado Council of Professional
Archaeologist Meeting, Estes Park, Colorado.
2005
Assessing Fort
Crawford’s Missing Dead: An Applied Archaeology Project. Geophysical
Investigation Phase by Fort Lewis College and Centuries Research, Inc. Co-authored
with Haley Harms and Steve Baker. Poster presented at the Colorado Council
of Professional Archaeologists, Grand Junction, Colorado.
2004
The Georgetown Cemetery: Integrating Remote Sensing, Database Management and
GIS. Paper Presented at the Archaeological Sciences of the
Americas 2004, Tucson, Arizona. Co-authored paper with Haley Harms and
Christine Markussen.
2003 Early
Formative Period Variability in Southwest Colorado.
Paper presented at the Colorado Council of Professional Archaeologists
annual meetings in Durango, CO.
2002 The
Durango Basketmakers: A Reevaluation. Paper
presented at the 75th Pecos Conference, Pecos, NM.
2002 A
Geoarchaeological Study of the Darkmold Site: An Integrative Approach.
Co-authors Mary Gillam and Christine Markussen.
Paper presented at the annual Colorado Council of Professional Meeting,
Gunnison, CO.
2000 Basketmaker
II as an In Situ Development in the San Juan Mountains, Southwest Colorado.
Revised paper presented at the 64th Society for American
Archaeology Meetings, Philadelphia.
1999 Basketmaker
II as an In Situ Development in the San Juan Mountains, Southwest Colorado.
Paper presented at the 4th Rocky Mountain Anthropological
Conference, Glenwood Springs, CO.
1998 The
Trouble With Mountains: A
Geoarchaeological Perspective. Paper presented at the 62nd Annual Meeting,
Society for American Archaeology, Nashville, TN.
2003
Cultural Variation in Colorado Basketmaker II.
Co-authored with Sally J. Cole.
Paper presented at the Society of American Archaeology Meetings,
Milwaukee, WI.
2003
Basketmaker II Phase Designations for the Upper San Juan Drainage:
Understanding Eastern Baketmaker II Chronology and Migrations.
Co-authored with Leslie M. Sesler and Timothy Hovezak.
Paper presented at the Society of American Archaeology meetings,
Milwaukee, WI.
References
Dr. W. James Judge
Department of Anthropology -Emeritus
Fort Lewis College
1000 Rim Drive
Durango, CO 81301
Telephone: (970)
259-1674
Dr.
Dawn Mulhern
Department of Anthropology
Fort Lewis College
1000 Rim Drive
Durango, CO 81301
Telephone:
(970) 247-7500
Dr. David Kozak
Department of Anthropology
Fort Lewis College
1000 Rim Drive
Telephone:
(970) 247- 7
Sally J. Cole
P.O. Box 684
Dolores, CO 81323
Telephone: (970) 882-2128
Ken Francis
Director, Office of Community Services
Fort Lewis College
1000 Rim Drive
Durango, CO 81301
Telephone: (970) 247-7310