Jerry Schaefer Ph.D., RPA - Selected Publications

2007 The Colorado Desert: Ancient Adaptations to Wetlands and Wastelands (by Jerry Schaefer and Don Laylander). In California Prehistory: Colonization, Culture, and Complexity, edited by Terry L. Jones and Kathryn A. Klar, pp. 247-258. Altamira Press, Walnut Creek, California.

2002 A Supplemental Bibliography for the Western Colorado Desert. In The Archaeology of Barrel Springs, by Joan Oxendine, edited by Joan S. Schneider, pp. C1-10. California Department of Parks and Recreation, Sacramento.

2000 “Now Dead I Begin to Sing”: a Protohistoric Clothes-burning Ceremonial Feature in the Colorado Desert. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 22(2):186-211..

1997 The Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Tahquitz Canyon, Palm Springs. Society for California Archaeology Newsletter 31(2):1-6.

1994 The Stuff of Creation: Recent Approaches to Ceramics Analysis in the Colorado Desert. In Recent Research Along the Lower Colorado River, edited by Joseph A. Ezzo, pp. 81-100. Statistical Research Technical Series No. 51, Tucson.

1994 The Challenge of Archaeological Research in the Colorado Desert: New Approaches and Discoveries. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 16(1):60-80.

1992 Review of The Cahuilla Landscape: The Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains, by Lowell John Bean, Sylvia Brakke Vane, and Jackson Young with contributions by Bern Schwenn. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 14(2):268-270.

1989 Archaeological Remains from the Medieval Islamic Occupation in the Northwest Negev Desert. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 274:33-60.

1987 Decorated Ceramics and Unfired Clay Objects. In Archaeological Investigations at Antelope House, edited by Donald P. Morris, pp. 398-431. National Park Service, Washington, D.C.

1986 An Umayyad Potters' Complex in the North Theatre, Jerash. In Jerash Archaeological Project, 1981-1983, edited by Fawzi Zayadine, pp. 411-460. Department of Antiquities, Amman, Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.

1986 Review of Third Palestine, A Regional Study in Byzantine Urbanism, by Kenneth Gutwein. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 264:86-88.

1984 Jerash. Pictures of Record, Weston, Connecticut.

Jerry Schaefer Ph.D., RPA

Dr. Jerry Schaefer is a Principal Archaeologist at ASM Affiliates. Inc. He holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Arizona. His work on urban historic archaeology spans three continents including major field projects on Roman, Byzantine, and early Islamic sites in Israel, Egypt and Jordan.

Since 1980 he has worked on several projects in downtown San Diego, including sites in the PETCO Park area, documenting the past lifeways of San Diego's first urban pioneers. He has also directed major excavations at rural San Diego homesteads such as the Robert Israel Adobe, and even a recreational sportfishing facility at Point Mugu in Ventura County.

Among Dr. Schaefer's major investigations at prehistoric sites is a component of the village of Cosoy in Mission Valley. Dr. Schaefer is also the author of several major articles and reports on the archaeology and prehistoric ceramics of the Colorado Desert and ancient Lake Cahuilla. Dr. Schaefer serves as consulting archaeologist to CCDC, the Imperial Irrigation District, the Coachella Water District, and the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians.

Jerry Schaefer Ph.D., RPA

1982 Historic Sites Archaeology in San Diego County: Tapping the Resource. San Diego State University Cultural Resource Management Casual Papers 1(1):1-4.

1979 The Ecology of Empires: An Archaeological Approach to the Byzantine Communities of the Negev Desert. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Arizona, Tucson.

(with Drew Pallette)
1995 Archaeological Investigations of Two Lake Cahuilla Associated Rockshelters in the Toro Canyon Area, Riverside County, California. Proceedings of the Society for California Archaeology 8. Society for California Archaeology, San Diego.

(with Steven Van Wormer)
1986 Research Approaches for Rural Historic Sites Archaeology in San Diego County. San Diego State University Cultural Resource Management Casual Papers 2(2):1-19, with Steven Van Wormer.