Bureau of Land Management

Department Member, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument

Other Affiliations: Grand Staircase-Escalante Partners, Cultural Resources
University of Nebraska Lincoln, Anthropology
Washington University in St. Louis, Anthropology

Archaeologist

Thesis Title: Paleoethnobotanical Analysis of Three Virgin Anasazi Sites in Southwestern Utah: 42Ws1191, 42Ws3119, and 42Ws4145

About

I am the field supervisor for the archaeology program at Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument (GSENM), a park within the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) which covers 1.9 million acres of southern Utah, and boasts a multitude of archaeological sites from many time periods.  My job is to help inventory, assess, protect, and monitor the monument's cultural resources.

I am also a permitted independent archaeological consultant in the State of Utah.  I primarily conduct small survey projects in the southern portion of the state.

My research focuses on the Ancestral Puebloan subsistence and adaptation in the upper branch of the Virgin River drainage during the Pueblo Period.  I am currently working on an overview of the inventories and excavations that have been conducted in the Telegraph Flat-Fivemile Valley areas of the monument.  Using data from these inventories, I am applying GIS technology to test hypotheses about settlement patterns and provide directions for future research.

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