Excavations
Trench and Area Supervisor
Upper Tigris Archaeological Research Project (UTARP):
Kenan Tepe, Diyarbakir, Turkey (2004-present)
Director: Bradley J. Parker
The Upper Tigris Archaeological Research Project (UTARP) is a multi-year archaeological excavation and survey project aimed at defining archaeological correlates of ancient imperialism, colonialism and culture contact in an area that was, for much of Mesopotamian history, a frontier zone between the centralized states of Mesopotamia and the much less centralized cultures of its Anatolian periphery.
Survey/Trench Supervisor
Kerkenes Dağ Project: Sorgun, Yozgat, Turkey (2002)
Directors: Geoffrey Summers, Françoise Summers, David Stronach
The Kerkenes Dağ Project has, since 1991, investigated this large first millennium settlement through a combination of excavation, survey and remote sensing. Possibly the ancient site of Pteria, Kerkenes was a well planned, but short-lived city that succumed to a devastating fire and was abandoned, thus providing remarkable preservation for future archaeologists.
Seasonal Archaeology Specialist
California State Parks: San Diego, California (2001)
Director: Herb Dallas
I participated in two projects: the excavation of a Chumash shell midden and habitation site at Leo Carillo State Park (Malibu, CA) and the excavation and historic preservation of an 1850s adobe ranch house at Pio Pico State Park (Whittier, CA).
Excavator Jabal Hamrat Fidan Project: Faynan, southern Jordan (1999)
Directors: Thomas E. Levy, Russell B. Adams
The Jabal Hamrat Fidan Project is the first "deep time" study of ore procurement, early metallurgy, production and social change from the Neolithic to the Iron Age in Jordan.