Senior Archaeologist

Ph.D. (candidate), Anthropology, University of British Columbia
M.A., Anthropology, Portland State University, 2015
B.A., Anthropology, Pacific University, 2010

Thomas J. (TJ) Brown, has experience working in Idaho, Washington, Alaska and British Columbia, but most extensively within Oregon. He has directed or taken part in numerous surveys, evaluative testing, and data recovery projects in coastal, desert and plateau settings throughout the Pacific Northwest in both CRM and academic contexts. Currently a PhD candidate at the University of British Columbia, his research addresses the effects of population fluctuations on social systems and the use of statistical modeling of chronological data to better refine the precision and increase the accuracy of temporal frameworks used throughout the Pacific Northwest.

TJ has published numerous articles on these topics, covering time-periods from the Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene transition to the proto-historic period. He has also co-authored and provided statistical analyses for book chapters relating to the construction of regional chronological databases and the evaluation of ecological data using isotopic signatures from archaeological faunal remains. TJ is also an adjunct professor at Portland State University and the assistant administrator for the Canadian Archaeological Radiocarbon Database (CARD).