JAMES T. DANIELS, JR., M.A., RPA

Associate Archaeologist

jdaniels@asmaffiliates.com

EDUCATION

• M.A., 2009/Anthropology/California State University, Long Beach
• B.A., 2004/Anthropology/North Carolina State University

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

James Daniels earned his Bachelor's degree from North Carolina State University in 2004, after which he began working as a field and lab technician for a cultural resource management firm in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.There he acquired experience conducting Phase I and II surveys on Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune and was responsible for the curation of cultural material and preparation of inventories for CRM reports. In 2006, James began coursework towards a M.A. at CSU Long Beach. He has participated in multiple geophysical surveys in the Mojave Dessert, coastal Guatemala, and on Easter Island.

James has experience with collecting, processing, and integrating data collected with ground penetrating radar (GPR), magnetometry, conductivity, and resistivity instruments within GIS software. He also has experience in the chemical analysis of artifacts and source materials using a laser ablation time of flight mass spectrometer and a scanning electron microscope. James worked as a research and curation assistant for NAGPRA-related materials and worked closely with the Native American community in preparing materials for repatriation.

James serves as an Associate Archaeologist for ASM and is responsible for GPR survey, authoring and co-authoring technical and letter reports, working with GIS datasets and generating maps, records searches, field and lab work, and various other duties. James has worked on several testing projects in the Colorado and Mojave deserts and has organized, conducted, and recorded results for several small pedestrian and GPR surveys. James's archaeological interests include geophysical survey, distributional archaeology, Mesoamerica, and the Desert Southwest.
James operates ASM’s Bruker Tracer III portable X-ray fluorescence (pXRF) lab instrument in the chemical analysis of artifacts and materials for sourcing studies and soil and residue characterizations of archaeological sites.