Archaeologist

B.S., Anthropology, Portland State University, 2016
M.A., Anthropology, University of British Columbia, 2019

Jonathan began working as an archaeologist in 2013 as an undergraduate student at Portland State University.

Jonathan has taken part in survey, evaluative testing, and data recovery projects in Oregon, Washington, Alaska, and British Columbia. These projects range from small, one-day surveys to large, multi-year projects involving large crews simultaneously conducting survey, monitoring, and screening. Jonathan also has experience co-teaching field schools for the Sts’Ailes First Nation.

Jonathan received an M.A. from the University of British Columbia in 2019.

For his thesis, Jonathan reconstructed fire histories in Prince Rupert Harbour, British Columbia to address questions about anthropogenic burning and landscape modification during periods of population fluctuation and settlement pattern reorganization.

Jonathan’s areas of archaeological interest include public outreach, fire cracked rock, anthropogenic landscape modification and its relationship to socio-cultural changes, and paleoenvironment and fire history. Outside of archaeology, Jonathan collects records, makes music, and watches Star Trek.