Senior Archaeologist and Director-at-large

Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Washington, 2003
Museum Collection Management and Interpretation Certification
University of Washington Extension Program, 2002
M.A., Anthropology, University of Washington, 1998
B.A., Anthropology and Philosophy, Grand Valley State University, 1995

Bob has worked as an archaeologist since the mid-1990s, directing cultural resource management projects since 2003. He has been a Cultural Resources Principal Investigator for both small regional and large national CRM and environmental consulting firms and has directed projects throughout Washington, Alaska, Idaho, and Oregon, for municipal, state, federal, Tribal, and private clients.

Bob has managed multiple on-call cultural resources contracts for municipal and state agencies and Tribal governments. He has particular experience with NHPA Section 106, and NEPA as well as city and county heritage preservation laws. He has worked extensively with SEPA and Washington DAHP requirements.

Bob has overseen large-scale pedestrian and shovel probe survey, evaluation and data recovery at numerous archaeological sites ranging from coastal shell middens, Interior Native American hunting camps, to remnants of historic European American settlements. He has prepared agreement documents, historic property management plans and predictive models.

Bob has authored numerous peer-reviewed articles and book chapters involving the archaeology of the Pacific Northwest and Alaska, evolutionary ecology, zooarchaeology, cultural landscapes, Pacific Northwest and Alaskan traditional foods, and archaeological subsistence studies.

Bob has been an affiliate curator of archaeology at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture for over ten years. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Association for Washington Archaeology since 2008, including as President and Secretary. He is also a member of the Society for American Archaeology and has been on the Register of Professional Archaeologists since 2001.