STEVEN SHELLEY, PH.D., RPA

Senior Archaeologist

sshelley@asmaffiliates.com

EDUCATION

• 1993 Ph.D., Anthropology, Washington State University
• 1980 M.A., Anthropology, Louisiana State University
• 1977 B.A., Anthropology and Geography, University of Arizona

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Dr. Shelley has over 30 years of professional archaeological experience throughout North America, with a majority of his experience in the geographic area covered by the Los Angeles District of the Army Corps of Engineers.  He is a member of the Registry of Professional Archaeologists and as such ascribes to their code of ethics.  Dr. Shelley has a broad range of expertise including geoarchaeology, lithic analysis, faunal analysis, subsistence studies and the application of GIS and geographic modeling to the study of settlement organization and resource procurement.  In addition to his technical skills in archaeology, he has extensive experience in running large, complex projects as an operations manager, a principal investigator and a project director.  In addition he is currently certified HAZWOPER trained and has OSHA certified training as a competent person for excavation design and safety.

Dr. Shelley has extensive experience in the archaeology of the Southwestern United States and in California. 
His dissertation was a faunal analysis of a Chacoan site near Cortez, Colorado.  He has run multi-million dollar, multi-site data recovery projects in the Tonto Basin, Arizona, and on the lower Verde River for the Bureau of Reclamation. Over the last 20 years he has done a number of projects for the Army Corps of Engineers, including for the Los Angeles District: surveys (as project director), testing at an historic ranch site and a data recovery project at the Garden Canyon site (as principal investigator) at Fort Huachuca, testing at Point Mugu Naval Weapons Station (as principal investigator); for the Sacramento District: a survey (field supervisor) at Honey Lake CA; for the St. Louis District: multiple projects for Army Corps offices from Alaska to Los Angeles as part of the obligation under NAGPRA (co-principal investigator).