Conservation Through Research

Phase I Reconnaissance Surveys: Multi-Component Properties

Stratifying Sample Frames in Phase I Surveys

Employing Historic Maps, Land Records, and Genealogical Information:
The Preserve

Phase II Intensive Surveys

Prehistoric Structural Remains and Features:
The Larson Farm

Documenting Inter-Site Functional and Chronological Variability:
TroutbrookValley

Lithic Scatters and Historic Foundations:
Brookfield

Mitigating Impact from Development:
The "Old Coe Place"

Construction Monitoring:
Creek Council House

Salvaging Information from Looted Sites:
The Hokiahse Rockshelter

Coordinating Concerns of the Client, the Government, the Media, and the Public

Public Addresses:
Scientific Exploration versus Religious Freedom and Spiritual Integrity

Identifying Historic Cemetery Boundaries:
The Connecticut School for Boys Cemetery

Preservation Through Conservation Easements:
South Farms

Working with Native American Tribes and Museums

The Mohegans:
Fort Shantok State Park

Museum Collections:
The Barney Daley Collection

Experimentation and Analysis

Lithic Weathering:
Post-Depositional Effects of Paleoenvironments on Lithic Materials

Taphonomy:
Post-Depositional Effects of Carnivores on Skeletal Remains

Fossil Remains:
The Plesiadapiforms and the Origins of the Primate Order

Research Abroad

Hominid Migration Routes Out of Africa:
Southern Arabia

The Middle to Upper Paleolithic Transition:
The Levant