MICHAEL GARNSEY

Associate Archaeologist

mgarnsey@asmaffiliates.com

EDUCATION

• M.A. in progress San Diego State University, Department of Anthropology
• B.A. 2003/Anthropology/University of California, San Diego

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Mr. Garnsey has more than five years of experience in cultural resource management in the Great Basin and southern California. His professional interests include California prehistory and protohistory,
and lithic and paleothnobotanical analysis.

Mr. Garnsey is currently working on a M.A. at San Diego State University and has earned his B.A. in Anthropology with a focus in Archaeology from University of California, San Diego. He has supervised and conducted archaeological field reconnaissance, testing and data recovery excavations, construction monitoring, and laboratory analysis. He has worked closely and successfully with Native American Tribal members, government agency representatives, construction personnel,
and environmental management professionals.

Mr. Garnsey has co-authored 10 cultural resource management technical reports, and helped with the lithic analysis of more than 20 archaeological projects. Mr. Garnsey is certified as an archaeological monitor for the City of San Diego.
 

As Associate Archaeologist at ASM, Mr. Garnsey is responsible for processing, analyzing artifact collections, as well as directing field projects,
writing portions of technical reports, and directing field personnel.