Archaeologist Cultural Resources
Resume:
Paulette F. Steeves M.A.
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Education
B.A. 2008. University of Arkansas, Anthropology, Honors Cum Laude
M.A. 2010. Archaeology Binghamton University
PhD. In Progress, Class Complete, 2010
Professional Experience
2009-2011: Teaching experience in college Anthropology
2003-2008: CRM, Cultural Resource Management
2000-2003: Osteology (transplant) procurement and preparation
1998-2000: NAGPRA Internship Quapaw NAGPRA Program
Archaeology CRM & NAGPRA Experience
01/2008-04/2008 Crew Chief/Archaeologist, Western Land Services, Inc. Richfield, Utah Supervise and assist with all aspects of cultural resource management,, including supervision of field technicians, pre-fieldwork tasks, planning and logistics for fieldwork, resource recordation, all phases of report production, and Class I literature research.
07/2007-01/2008 Crew Chief/Archaeologist, Sagebrush Consultants, and Ogden Utah: Recordation, evaluation of cultural resources for NRHP eligibility recommendations, all phases of report production, and Class I literature research. Supervised crew and completed archaeological survey, excavation and site assessment throughout the Intermountain and Great Basin regions.
07/2007-08/2007 Crew Chief/Archaeologist, Ecology and Environment, San Diego California. Class I literature Search, California SHPO, Riverside, California.
05/2007-06/2007 Field Supervisor/site monitor. Trans Sierra Archaeology Group, Phoenix, Arizona Mammoth Lakes, California, monitored construction excavations, and completed test unit excavations.
01/2007-5/2007 Crew Chief/Archaeologist: Gulf Coast Archaeology Group, Houston Texas Trained and supervised field technicians for a 197-mile pipeline survey that included subsurface testing, site evaluation and recordation, osteological analysis, and weekly reporting on environmental impacts and all survey data. Coordinated project tasks with field director, project archaeologists, and other crew chiefs.
10/2006-12/2006 Crew Chief/Assistant Field Director: Panamerican Consultants, Tuscaloosa Alabama Supervised a crew of six archaeologists on a multi-component Phase I survey of 8,000 acres in southern Georgia that included subsurface survey recordation of historic and prehistoric sites.
09/2006-10/2006 Field Archaeologist: Landmark Archaeology, and Albany New York Excavation of large block test units, mapping units and profiles, identifying artifacts and recordation of all excavations.
06/2006-09/2006 Project Manager/ Field Director/ Crew Chief: Earth Search LLC, New Orleans Louisiana: Coordinate and plan all aspects of fieldwork preparation, supervised archaeology field technicians, archaeological site evaluation, NRHP eligibility recommendations, all phases of report production, land access and clearance negotiations with private land owners.
12/2005-06/2006 Senior Field Archaeologist/Osteologist: New South Associates, Stone Mountain Georgia Excavations of large block units and ossuaries, osteological identification, recordation of historic and prehistoric features, intensive Phase I and II surveys, site testing and recordation.
04/2004-12/2005 Archaeology Field Technician, TRC, and Durham, North Carolina: Ravensford Phase II and III, Cherokee, North Carolina: Excavations of test units and multiple historic and prehistoric features including structures, osteological identification and excavation of canine burials. Identification of possible prehistoric, tribal burial areas, utilizing soil staining patterns and mapping and protecting burial areas. Completed extensive feature and site mapping and field feature reports.
11/2003-01/2004 Archaeology Field Technician. Panamerican Consultants Tuscaloosa Alabama (November 2003 to January 2004): Archaeology Field Technician. Subsurface testing survey on military and private lands in North Carolina and Alabama
06/1998-06/2000 Quapaw NAGPRA Program: NAGPRA Program Assistant: Responsibilities included, literature research, repatriation claims review, museum osteological collection reviews, meetings with parks service representatives, Arkansas Archaeology Survey representatives and the Quapaw tribe members and government. Responsible for evaluating university and museum collections for Quapaw tribal cultural affiliation, monitoring of section 106 and NAGPRA notice of claim filings. Presentation of NAGPRA projects including the Quapaw mtDNA project to the Quapaw tribal members. Arranging and leading tours of the University of Arkansas osteological collection for Quapaw elders and tribal representatives.
Related Experience
09/2000-03/2003 University of Miami Osteology and Soft Tissue: Clinical Technician: Transplant Team, Cell Growth Scientist. University of Miami Medical School, Department of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation: (September 2000 to May 2003). Cell Growth Lab Director. Responsibilities included sterile procurement of bone and soft tissue for transplant, autopsy assistant, fingerprinting and logging transplant donors, preparation of bone and soft tissue for transplant. Completion of the central service sterile processing and collection certification. Redesign and operate the human cell growth and osteology research labs. Design and implement research project s in human osteology, cell culture, cryogenics and slow rate preservation of human cells.
06/1997-06/1998 University of Arkansas Biological Archaeology Lab Assistant: Bibliographic data entry, University of Arkansas Department of Anthropology, Fayetteville Arkansas, Director, Dr. Jerome Rose. Responsibilities included receiving and recording and filing research materials for the Middle East Program, Jordan Summer Field School, bibliographical data entry using.
Publications and Technical Reports
Steeves, Paulette, Rhonda L. Smith and Jill-Karen Yakubik
2006 Intensive Cultural Resource Survey LA I- I 10 Connector, West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana State Project NO ***-**-****, Federal Aid Project NO. CIB 6103 (501). Louisiana State Historic Preservation Office.
Steeves, Paulette
2000, Honors Thesis: SILO Recipient, (Mitochondrial DNA Tracking and Typing of Americans Ancient Cultures, Establishing mtDNA Markers for the Quapaw Tribe), University of Arkansas, and Fulbright Honors Department, Fulbright Honors Library Publication.
Steeves, Paulette
Deep Time Roots in the Western Hemisphere. Pleistocene Coalition, Oct 2010, Pp 1-2.
Professional Associations
• American Indian Science and Engineering Society
• Society of America Archaeology
• American Anthropology Association
• World Archaeological Congress
• Society for Applied Anthropology
• Plains Anthropology Society
Academic Offices and Service
• AGO-GSO Senator – Fall 09 -Anthropology Graduate Student Organization
• GSO, Budget Committee Member Fall 08- Spring 09– Graduate Student Organization
• Co-chair Anthropology Representations Committee: Fall, 08.
• Graduate Student Association- Faculty Liaison- 2009
• N.A.S.A. Native American Student Association / I.S.A indigenous Student Association, Founder, President: GSO and MCSA representative 2009-2010
Honors Grants and Fellowships
• Denver Museum of Nature and Science Native American Archaeology Internship Award
• SAA Arthur C. Parker Scholarship for Native American Training 2010
• Binghamton University Graduate School Conference Attendance Grant 2010
• Clark Fellowship, Binghamton University, Graduate School 2008 – 2013
• Co- Chair Binghamton University Representations Committee 2000
• Radio Show Guest: Indigenous People on Columbus Day 2009:
• Plains Anthropologist, Native American Student Award, 1999
• University of Arkansas Student Support Services
• Trio Achiever Award, 1999, in recognition of outstanding achievement.
• Robert L Stigler Jr. Scholarship and Certificate of Achievement Award
• 1998- 1999, University of Arkansas, Department of Anthropology.
• University of Arkansas, Office of Non-Traditional Students
• Award for Academic Excellence: 199*-****-****.
University of Arkansas, Student Support Services Honor Roll, 199*-****-****.
• Single Parent Scholarship of Washington County: 1996/1997/1998/1999.
• Lois M Fry Memorial Scholarship Award 1997
Established to honor a single parent who most demonstrates outstanding academic excellence and interest in scientific inquiry, and a desire to serve the public through volunteering
• Anderson Scholarship, University of Arkansas, Honors Department: 1997.
Teaching Experience
• ANTH 125: Introduction to Archaeology, 2 sections. Spring 2010
• ANTH 111: Introduction to Anthropology, 2 sections Fall 2010
• LACAS 380A: Indigenous People and Contemporary Populations of the Western Hemisphere, Spring 2011
Conferences Organized
• Enlightenment on Columbus Day: Indigenous Voices. October 2009. Native American Student Association of Binghamton University.
• Return Our Ancestors, American Indians and NAGPRA: (May -6-2010) ISA: Indigenous Student Association of Binghamton University.
Papers Presented
SAA 2011: Session in Honor of Professor Al Dekin: Sacramento CA, Pebbles in A Pond; American Anthropology Needs A Landslide.
Indigenous Story Tellers and native American Studies Conference SUNY Buffalo 04-2011:
Reclaiming Deep History, a Telling of Truths Legitimizing the Indigenous Past and Informing Worldviews
Native American Student Association of Binghamton University, Enlightenment on Columbus Day Conference 2010, Binghamton New York, Concealing historical truths is a crime against all people: Who was Columbus and What Did He Do.
RATS Symposium. Binghamton University 2009
Anarchist by Default: Red Anthropologists in a White Academia.
Binghamton Anthropology Student Organization; Ethics Conference 2008,
A Pebble in the Pond.
References
Jennifer Tiffany PhD
Cornell University
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Carrie Wilson
Quapaw NAGPRA Representative
Section 106, NEPA, Cultural Resources
223 E Lafayette St
Fayetteville, AR 72701-4242
479- 442-7576
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Tasha Benyshek, M.A.
TRC, Cultural Resource Management
5 Dogwood Road, Asheville, NC 28806
Phone: 828-***-****
tbenyshek@ trcsolutions.com
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