Staff
Dawn Greenwald, Dave Greenwald, Jeremy Davis, Pete Eidenbach, Tim Mills, Lindsay Poitevint, Heather Blanton, Justin Greenwald.
Dawn Greenwald, M.A., RPA
Ms. Greenwald is the president/owner of Four Corners Research, a successful archaeological consulting firm based in Tularosa, New Mexico. She is the projects administrator of the company, and also serves as editor, lithic specialist and laboratory director. Ms. Greenwald has 25 years of experience in the theory, method, implementation, and interpretation of ground and flaked stone in Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico, and 30 years overall experience in CRM. Her experience as an analyst began in 1979, where she received training at the University of Colorado, Dolores Archaeological Program. She has been responsible for developing, conducting, and synthesizing flaked and ground stone analyses for various archaeological projects since 1985, including the Tucson Aqueduct Project, City of Phoenix Sky Harbor project, the Salt River Project Coronado Coal Haul Railroad and Fence Lake projects (Arizona and New Mexico Corridors), the Navajo Route 2007 project, the East Papago Inner Loop project, Arizona Department of Transportation La Ciudad de Los Hornos project, and Federal Land Exchange projects. She has also managed projects, prepared budgets, conducted research and fieldwork, and written reports and synthesized data from ethnographic and archaeological projects in Arizona and New Mexico. Ms. Greenwald has conducted specialized research on data from numerous sites in the Four Corners region (the Dolores Archaeological Program), the Sonoran Desert (the Cerro de Trincheras Project), the southern Great Basin and the lower Colorado River areas, with specialization in the Ancestral Puebloan, Hohokam, and Mogollon culture areas. Analytical studies have ranged from describing and interpreting basic attribute data to developing models of intersite and interregional relationships.
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Dave Greenwald
Mr. Greenwald, Director of Research and Vice President of Four Corners Research, has been a practicing archaeologist for nearly 35 years, active in the Southwest since 1971 and serving as Field Supervisor since 1979, Project Manager since 1987, and Principal Investigator on various projects since 1991. His interests have been focused on the Ancestral Puebloan region of Arizona, the Ancestral Puebloan and Mogollon areas of western New Mexico, the Jornada Mogollon region, the Four Corners area, and the Hohokam region of Arizona. Additionally, he has accumulated a wide range of experience throughout much of the Southwest and west Texas.
Major research foci of Mr. Greenwald’s have been Ancestral Puebloan architectural studies, site structure, and community development, Mogollon settlement and land-use patterns, prehistoric agricultural techniques, and Hohokam canals and irrigation communities. Mr. Greenwald has accumulated considerable experience in New Mexico and adjacent areas, working on the Fence Lake Coal Mine testing and data recovery projects, the Coronado Coal Haul Railroad excavation projects in east-central Arizona, the Dolores Archaeological Project in southwest Colorado, surveys in the Guadalupe Mountains and Carlsbad area, data recovery at Big Bend National Park, and surveys in eastern and central New Mexico. In adjacent areas of west central New Mexico, he conducted field supervision and project management for several projects on the Chambers-Sanders Trust Lands for the Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation in northeastern Arizona.
Recent surveys in central New Mexico include the Thunderbird Ecosystem project, a 2300-acre survey, and the Tajique Phase I Survey, a 6023-acre survey, in the Mountainair District for the Cibola National Forest, recording 123 sites including prehistoric, historic, and contemporary Native American. Mr. Greenwald also has experience in the Mimbres and Jornada Mogollon areas through surveys conducted at Elephant Butte and Caballo Reservoirs (southern New Mexico), at Fort Bliss, various surveys in the Lincoln National Forest/Sacramento Mountains (including the 5580-acre Maverick Survey), and a 6280-acre survey at White Sands National Monument. As Field Supervisor on the Sacramento River Road project in the Lincoln National Forest, Mr. Greenwald directed the excavations at one Archaic site, one Mogollon agricultural settlement, and two historic sites.
Mr. Greenwald has considerable experience working on large, complex projects, having served as an assistant field supervisor on the Dolores Archaeological Project in southwest Colorado, field supervisor on the Tucson Aqueduct Project, field supervisor and project manager on the Coronado Railroad Project, field supervisor and project manager on the N2007 Road Extension project, project manager on the Phoenix Sky Harbor projects, and assistant principal investigator for on-going work at Fort Bliss.
Because of his extensive background with heavy equipment, Mr. Greenwald has designed and applied mechanical excavation methods for projects such as the Palo Verde Waste Water Conveyance project (west of Phoenix), the Dolores Archaeological project (southwest Colorado), Tucson Aqueduct Data Recovery project (southern Arizona), Sky Harbor Center project (Phoenix), N2007 Road Extension (east-central Arizona), as well as on various testing and data recovery projects on Fort Bliss (west Texas and southern New Mexico). He also has broad experience in the preparation and implementation of project research designs and has an extensive list of published reports and articles.
As a result of having a broad background in cultural resource management, Mr. Greenwald has worked with several urban, state, and federal agencies, including the New Mexico State Highways and Transportation Department, Arizona Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, various city governments, USDA Forest Service (New Mexico and Arizona), Bureau of Reclamation (New Mexico and Arizona), Army Corps of Engineers (Arizona, New Mexico, Texas), Bureau of Land Management (Arizona and New Mexico), Bureau of Indian Affairs (Arizona), the Texas General Land Office, the Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation, and various tribal governments, including the Navajo, Hopi, Hualapai, Jicarilla, Ak Chin, Salt River Pima and Maricopa Indian Community, and Gila River Indian Community. Private clients have included Salt River Project, City of Phoenix Economic and Community Development, City of Phoenix Aviation Department, URS Greiner (New Jersey), Halliburton NUS (Maryland), Parsons Brinkerhoff (Albuquerque), and Tetra Tech (Albuquerque).Top
Jeremy Davis has a broad range of experience in archaeology throughout the United States. In addition to conducting surveys and excavations in the Southwest, he has also worked in Missouri, New York, Virginia, Kansas, Florida, Delaware, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, New Jersey and Japan. He is proficient in lithic tool, flake and debitage artifact analysis, in the field as well as in a laboratory setting. His communication and writing skills are a vital component of the success he has shown on projects with which he has been involved. Mr. Davis is involved in all phases of both survey and excavation work with Four Corners Research, including project development, supervising field crews, analysis, and report preparation. He served as Crew Chief on the Fence Lake Data Recovery project as well as the Dark Canyon Survey, Gallo Canyon Survey, Maverick Survey, on various surveys for Natural Resources Conservation Service, the Laughlin Ranch Survey near Bullhead City, Arizona, the Chaparral Survey, and currently is directing the Gila National Forest Level 2 Roads survey. His supervisory experience includes report writing and supporting the Section 106 process (National Historic Preservation Act; 36 CFR 800) by providing recommendations for determinations of eligibility and detailed documentation for the evaluations. He has experience throughout the state of New Mexico and has participated in excavations in the Jornada Mogollon area on the U.S. 70 and Sacramento River Road projects. Mr. Davis is permitted at the Field Supervisor level by the State of New Mexico and BLM for northwestern and southeastern New Mexico.Top
Pete Eidenbach
Pete Eidenbach is an anthropologist, historian, preservation planner, and teacher whose 38-year professional career has focused on the archaeology, history, and traditions of southern New Mexico. He is permitted by the BLM, State of New Mexico for general and unmarked human remains recovery, and approved in the NMHPD Professional Directory to conduct historic architecture recording. He has authored monographs, research reports, and plans in prehistoric and historic archaeology; rural historic architecture; Cold War architecture and military history; and oral history. He developed graduate and undergraduate courses and a teacher’s manual in historic preservation for distribution to New Mexico colleges and universities, and pioneered interactive TV classes in heritage education. Pete teaches anthropology, historic preservation, history and philosophy of science, New Mexico history, and Native American studies as a Professor at New Mexico State University–Alamogordo. He is a certified instructor for the New Mexico Intrigue of the Past program Top
Tim Mills, Ph.D.
Tim Mills holds an MSc. in Environmental Archaeology and a Ph.D. in Archaeobotany from the University of Sheffield, England. He has a particularly broad range of field and reporting experience, having participated in cultural resource research efforts the U.S., North Africa, and Europe. A previous career in industry equips Dr. Mills with a unique blend of project management skills and technical expertise in botany and landscape studies. Tim has had formal academic training in crop science, botany, plant genetics and Greek and Latin. His M.Sc. and Ph.D. research utilized statistical and philological techniques to investigate correlations between archaeobotanical assemblages and Classical agricultural records. His recent initiation into Southwestern archaeology includes excavation, survey, analysis and report writing primarily at Fort Bliss in support of the Section 106 process, including addressing distribution patterns of floral resources and identifying anthropogenic processes that can be recognized through present-day plant distributions. He is also experienced in human remains recovery from Fort Craig, and survey on the Lincoln and Santa Fe National Forests. Top
Lindsay Poitevint
Over the past several years, Lindsay Poitevint has acquired experience in West Texas and Southern New Mexico in survey, excavation, artifact analysis, and agency compliance. She has worked with New Mexico State University as research assistant, with the Bureau of Land Management and the Forest Service in cultural resource compliance and archaeological survey, and in the private sector in excavation and survey on Fort Bliss, New Mexico and Texas, within southwestern New Mexico, and in northwestern New Mexico. Ms. Poitevint has experience with field and laboratory lithic, ceramic and faunal analyses. She is proficient in field mapping and has experience in using standard optical theodolites and total stations. She has the basic skills to create maps using ArcView and other GIS software. She is permitted by the BLM in the southeast and southwest quadrants of New Mexico as a Field Supervisor. Top
Heather Blanton
Heather Blanton's archaeological experience extends across much of New Mexico and portions of Arizona. Her field experience includes survey, surface collection, testing, data recovery, site recording and mapping, and test unit and feature excavation. Her laboratory skills include archival, background, and site file research, data entry, completion of site forms, artifact analysis, collections management, as well as contributing to the completion of project reports. She is currently completing her Master’s in Physical Anthropology where she has extensively studied human skeletal remains and is experienced in skeletal analyses, including inventory, sexing/aging, and overall life-history, i.e. diet, pathologies, etc., of the remains. She is current completing her thesis on human remains from the Fort Craig Post Cemetery, addressing pathologies associated with prolonge horse riding that enable members of the cavalry to be identified from the rest of the population. Ms. Blanton also works with ArcView and CorelDraw for drafting site, site location, and project area maps. Top
Justin Greenwald
Mr. Greenwald has been participating in archaeological field studies since 1991 as an archaeological crew member. His experience has been focused in central, east-central, and western Arizona and much of southeastern, southern, and west-central New Mexico. Beginning in 2002, he has been engaged in archaeological field work, either survey or data recovery, on a full-time basis. He has experience working on the Jornada Mogollon, Hohokam, Cibola Anasazi/Mogollon Frontier, Salado, and historic homesteads and historic military sites. He has excavated late Archaic and early Jornada Mogollon sites in the Rio Hondo Valley, Hohokam Classic and Post Classic compounds in the Salt River Valley, and Ancestral Puebloan, Mogollon, and Archaic sites near Quemado, as part of the Fence Lake Mine and Transportation Corridor project. He has extensive survey experience in New Mexico in Eddy County on the Dark Canyon project and Saragosa Seismic survey, in Lea County on an 8600 acre survey on private lands, in Lincoln County on the Maverick, Scot Able, Cree, and Cedar Perk surveys, in Otero County on the White Sands National Monument sample survey and survey and excavations at Fort Bliss, in Socorro County on the CA Bar survey, Elephant Butte survey, Fort Conrad site documentation, and the Fort Craig Post Cemetery excavations, and in Rio Arriba County on the Dry Lakes and Canjilon surveys and US 64 data recovery project. In Arizona, he has survey experience in Mohave and Maricopa counties. He is proficient with Trimble GEO XT and Garmin GPS site mapping and navigation, in-field historic and lithic artifact analysis, photography, and ArcView, drafting/mapping, and serves as Four Corners’ GIS Technician. Justin is highly experienced in the excavation and recovery of human remains, including both prehistoric and historic remains. Top