ARLEEN GARCIA-HERBST, M.A., RPA

Senior Archaeologist

aherbst@asmaffiliates.com

EDUCATION

• In Progress Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Anthropology
• 2000 M.A., University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Anthropology
• 1996 B.A. (Cum Laude), University of Arizona, Department of Anthropology

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Over the last 14 years, Ms. Garcia-Herbst has acquired experience in archaeological research, fieldwork, and publication in the American Southwest (Arizona, Colorado and Nevada), and Argentina. Ms. Garcia-Herbst earned her M.A. in Anthropology from the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) in 2000. She is currently working on her Ph.D. in Anthropology at UCSB, with a research focus on the flaked stone technology used by foragers during the Mid- to Late Holocene (3124 B.C. to A.D. 1474) in coastal Southern Argentina, and is ABD with an expected graduation in 2008. She has several years of supervisory experience and is able to plan projects, write funding proposals, survey and sample, gather, organize and analyze data, as well as summarize and publish results in print and digital formats. Additionally, she has special technical expertise in lithic technology, specifically flaked and ground stone analysis, and stone raw material geochemical sourcing using Laser-Ablation Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry. She has received three research grants, totaling $13,600, which have supported her dissertation research projects.

Ms. Garcia-Herbst currently serves as Senior Archaeologist at ASM. In this role, she is charged with the identification, assessment, and data recovery of prehistoric and historical cultural resources for compliance with local, state, and federal environmental requirements. She works closely with and under the direction of ASM principal investigators, prepares work plans, conducts record searches, supervises field staff, organizes travel, directs fieldwork, and prepares technical reports, graphics and maps.