MICAH J. HALE, Ph.D., RPA

Principal

mhale@asmaffiliates.com

EDUCATION

• 2009 Ph.D., University of California, Davis, Department of Anthropology
• 2001 M.A., California State University, Sacramento, Department of Anthropology
• 1996 B.S., University of California, Davis, Department of Anthropology

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Micah Hale earned his Ph.D. in archaeology from University
of California in 2009, and his M.A. from CSU Sacramento in 2001. He has been listed on the Register of Professional Archaeologists since 2001.

As a Principal at ASM, Dr. Hale manages all aspects of projects from start to finish. Dr. Hale has experience directing large scale inventories, significance evaluations, and data recovery programs across California for clients such as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, SWDIV, Caltrans, the University of California, NOAA, and various local agencies. He has directed and participated in a number of projects on various military installations including Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center at 29 Palms, Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, Naval Base Point Loma, San Clemente Island Naval Installation, Yuma Proving Grounds (Arizona), Concord Naval Weapons Station, Edwards Air Force Base, and Vandenberg Air Force Base.

Outside of California, Dr. Hale has directed projects in Oregon, Nevada, and Arizona, with additional academic experience in northwest Greenland. Dr. Hale’s dissertation research explored socioeconomic divergence among hunter-gatherers, focusing on coastal southern California. Using formal economic models, his dissertation clarified the conditions in which hunter-gatherer adaptive change can be discontinuous.