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JAMES T. DANIELS, JR., M.A., RPA
James Daniels earned his M.A. degree in Anthropology from California State University in 2009. His responsibilities for ASM Affiliates incudes GPR survey, authoring and co-authoring technical and letter reports, working with GIS datasets and generating maps, records searches, field and lab work. 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.
BRIAN WILLIAMS, M.M.A., RPA
Mr. Williams graduated in 2007 from Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia with a M.A. degree in Maritime Archaeology. He began doing archaeology in projects at Orvietto and Pompeii, Italy, then locally with the Barona Tribal Museum and San Diego Archaeology Society. Brian was also a teacher of Anthropology and Gender at the University of San Diego. Since starting Cultural Resource Management, Mr. Williams has conducted surveys and excavations for and recorded numerous prehistoric and historic sites from the Pacific Coast to El Centro, CA. His interests in archaeology and maritime archaeology follow the human development and alteration of self-identity throughout an individual’s life.
KARI SPRENGELER, B.A.
Ms. Sprengeler earned her B.A. degree in Anthropology from University of Iowa in 2000. She works in all aspects of field archaeology, from construction monitoring and survey projects to data recovery of complex prehistoric and historic sites. Kari has assisted in the management of cultural resources on federal land, assisted military and civilian personnel in compliance with federal laws, and consulted with local Native American tribal members. She is working in all aspects of field archaeology, from construction monitoring and survey projects to data recovery of complex prehistoric and historic sites. Ms. Sprengeler is working with GIS, co-authoring reports, and serving as a crew leader and crew member on projects for ASM’s Reno Office. Her interests include contact period archaeology and early settlement of the continental United States.
CLINT COLE, Ph.D.
Mr. Cole has 13 years of professional and academic experience in archaeology and anthropology. He has completed all requirements for a Ph.D. at the University of California, Davis and will have the degree conferred in March 2012. His dissertation addresses the western expansion of Formative Period Fremont groups into eastern Nevada via analysis of indigenous ceramics and INAA-based geochemical source signatures. His research also emphasizes prehistoric ecological relationships to eastern Great Basin environments using a combination of surface survey, excavation, and GIS modeling techniques. Mr. Cole completed his M.A. in 2001 at Washington State University (WSU), where he studied lithic technology and Great Basin prehistory. His M.A. thesis examines the chipped-stone lithic industry and obsidian sources of Archaic Period settlements along the Owyhee River, southeastern Oregon.
Mr. Cole’s technical proficiencies include prehistoric ceramic analysis, chipped-stone lithic analysis, GIS/statistics-based modeling and pattern recognition, and bulk geochemical methodologies to artifact source identification (INAA and XRF). His theoretical background emphasizes human behavioral ecology and evolutionary approaches to prehistoric hunter-gatherers and non-intensive farmers. He has led archaeological excavation and survey projects as supervisor/principal investigator and instructor through university-federal agency cooperative-agreements in southeastern Oregon, California, and Nevada. He has participated in culture resource management projects for private companies and county agencies. His most recent inventories include projects located at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center at Twentynine Palms and Edwards Air Force Base. He is currently listed on the Register of Professional Archaeologists and is a Senior Archaeologist in ASM’s Reno Office.
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