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Senior Staff Profiles:Dawn M. Greenwald, M.A., RPA, President ~Ms. Greenwald has 30 years experience in managing projects and archaeological data, conducting analyses, and coordinating laboratory activities for the effective use of field evidence, records, and archives for archaeological interpretation. As the lead administrator of Four Corners Research, she provides oversight to all projects, and is ultimately responsible for production and the quality of the final product, providing report reviews and edits, supervising employees, conducting analyses, preparing reports, and directing projects. She also has 28 years of experience in the theory, method, implementation, and interpretation of ground and flaked stone in the Southwest. She is the Laboratory Supervisor and the Lithic and Ground Stone Specialist for Four Corners Research.David H. Greenwald, B.A., Projects Manager/Principal Investigator ~Mr. Greenwald has 36 years of experience in cultural resource management, has been active as a Southwestern archaeologist since 1971, has been a Field Supervisor since 1979, a Project Manager since 1987, and a Principal Investigator since 1991. He has directed a wide range of projects, and has managed multidisciplinary teams with great success. Mr. Greenwald has worked with various urban, state, and federal agencies, as well as the private sector, throughout New Mexico and the Southwestern U.S. in general. He is experienced in cultural resource management law, regulations, and standards, and he understands agency concerns and requirements. David E. Purcell, M.A., RPA, Projects Manager/Principal Investigator ~Mr. Purcell has over 20 years of field and administrative experience in the Southwest, Great Basin, and Plains in survey, testing, and data recovery projects, including the preparation of testing and excavation plans, research designs, and archaeological overviews. His familiarity with aboriginal and immigrant cultures from Paleoindian to prehistoric and historic cultures is documented in technical reports, publications, and peer presentations. Long-term research interests include prehistoric pottery-firing technology, Native American acculturation, the use of ethnographic analogy in prehistoric investigations, the Prescott Culture, the Virgin Anasazi, Chacoan Anasazi communities, and Archaic subsistence and regional traditions. Jeffery Hanson, Ph.D., RPA, Projects Manager/Principal Investigator ~Dr. Hanson has over 30 years experience as an anthropologist working in academic and applied settings. His specializations include archaeology, cultural anthropology and ethnohistory. He has conducted archaeological research in the northern Great Plains, the Midwest, Texas, Utah, and New Mexico. His research interests include the archaeology of hunter-gatherer systems, ethnicity and archaeology, and Apachean prehistory. His applied interests include archaeology and the law, historic preservation, and tribal consultation. Peter Eidenbach, M.A., Supervisory Archaeologist ~Mr. Eidenbach is an archaeologist, preservation planner, and New Mexico State University professor, whose 40-year professional career has focused on the archaeology, history, and traditions of southern New Mexico. He understands the archaeology and history of White Sands Missile Range and the Tularosa Basin, in general, having conducted research in and around the Range for many years, including Historic Period and military use of the Tularosa Basin. At White Sands Missile Range, he served as director of the Maneuver Damage Control Team during exercises. Mr. Greenwald and Mr. Eidenbach initiated the First Annual Tularosa Basin Conference to provide a foundation and forum for professional researchers in both natural and cultural resources. Jeremy T. Davis, M.A., Supervisory Archaeologist ~Jeremy Davis has a broad range of experience in archaeology throughout the United States, including extensive experience in the Southwest conducting surveys and excavations. He recently served as Assistant Project Manager on a 50,000 acre survey at White Sands Missile Range, directing the analysis on a collection of nearly 600 projectile points from the project. In addition, he has served as field director on numerous large Phase I, II, and III projects in Indiana, Illinois, and Kentucky, including the high-profile Rockies Express Pipeline Project. Mr. Davis is proficient in flaked stone analysis and historic artifact analysis; he has written or contributed to report chapters on lithic and flaked stone analysis for multiple CRM companies. Mr. Davis is involved in all phases of both survey and excavation work with Four Corners Research, including project development, supervising field crews, analyses and report preparation. He has served as Project Manager, Field Supervisor and Crew Chief on many projects in New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas. Heather Blanton, M.A., Supervisory Archaeologist/Physical Anthropologist ~Ms. Blanton received her MA in Anthropology from New Mexico State University. Over the past 7 years, she has conducted research projects throughout New Mexico, gaining experience working in all environmental settings. She has participated on surveys in the Guadalupe Mountains, Lincoln National Forest, and The Burro Mountains of the Gila National Forest, as well as on surveys and testing/site evaluation projects in the dunes of Fort Bliss. She was crew chief on the 50,000-acre survey on White Sands Missile Range. Ms. Blanton has experience working with mechanical excavations and is trained as a Physical Anthropologist, having participated in the recovery efforts of 64 individuals from the Fort Craig Post Cemetery in Socorro County, New Mexico. Lindsay Poitevint, M.A., Supervisory Archaeologist ~Lindsay Poitevint has experience in West Texas and Southern New Mexico in survey, excavation, artifact analysis, and agency compliance. She was a research assistant with New Mexico State University; she has worked with the Bureau of Land Management, Las Cruces Field Office, and the Gila National Forest in cultural resource compliance and archaeological survey, and in the private sector in excavation and survey on Fort Bliss Military Reservation in New Mexico and Texas. She also served as a crew chief on the 50,000 acre survey at White Sands Missile Range in 2009-2010, and as Field Supervisor on the Gila National Forest, Glenwood Ranger District Travel Management project. Ms. Poitevint has experience with field and laboratory lithic, ceramic and faunal analyses. |
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