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Project Staff - 2005

Dr. Barbara Voss
Project Director and Principal Investigator
Professor Voss is on the faculty of Stanford University 's Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology and of the Stanford Archaeology Center . Her primary research interest is to better understand how the material aspects of daily life shape social identities and culture, a question that has drawn her into archaeological research on architecture and landscapes, ceramics, foodways, and craft production in prehistoric and historic California . She first began research at the Presidio of San Francisco in 1992 and along with Sannie Osborn, Leo Barker, and Vance Benté discovered the archaeological remains of the Spanish-colonial Presidio de San Francisco site in 1993. She has conducted archaeological investigations here ever since. Her work in the Tennessee Hollow Watershed began in 1997, when she directed a survey of the valley floor that led to the discovery of the sites that will be excavated during this project. In addition to Stanford's research program at the Presidio do San Francisco , Dr. Voss also directs the Market Street Chinatown Archaeological Project , a study of an “orphaned” collection of artifacts form the first Chinatown in 19th century San Jose .

Heather Blind
Glass Analysis
Heather was born in Glasgow, Scotland. She first came to California in the summer of 2000 to work at the Presidio on the Funston Avenue Archaeological Project where Barb Voss was doing research for her Ph.D. at U.C. Berkeley. In 2001 Heather finished her Masters degree at Glasgow University, Scotland. Since then she has returned to California and has worked for CRM firms, the National Park Service and Stanford University. Her interests focus on conservation methods, laboratory method and contact period archaeology. Heather enjoys traveling with her husband, running, yoga, and taking the dog to the beach (although not all at once).

Stacey Camp
Ceramic Analysis
Stacey is excited to return to the Presidio this summer where she is working as a ceramics analyst. She is planning to use this experience to help her study ceramics from her own dissertation site, Mount Lowe Resort and Railway, the most popular tourist site in California between 1893 and 1936. Stacey just completed her second year at Stanford University where she is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology. Her other passions include hiking and traveling with her awesome hubby, Benjamin.

Liz Clevenger
Metal Analysis
Liz is the Archaeological Collections Specialist for the Presidio Trust. She oversees artifact processing, cataloging, curation and preservation. In addition, she manages outreach efforts at the Presidio Archaeology Lab, including education and volunteer programs. Her training is in historical archaeology and social anthropology. Previous research includes her master’s thesis on San Jose’s Market Street Chinatown, and work at the site of El Polin in the Presidio. When not digging privies or learning to drive a backhoe, Liz enjoys yoga, hiking, and cooking.

Beatrice Reynolds Cox
Public Interpretation
Bea has a B.A. in Anthropology from Sonoma State University and a B.S. in Retail Marketing from Western Michigan University. She is currently working on a Masters in Cultural Resource Management at Sonoma State and is contemplating a Ph.D. in Archaeology, after she has “shovelbummed” around a bit. Bea has a strong interest in African American Archaeology and is researching, for her thesis, the archaeology of the Allensworth Hotel at the Colonel Allen Allensworth California State Park in the San Joaquin Valley. This is Bea’s third year on the Tennessee Hollow Watershed Project and she feels very privileged to be a part of a great team once again! She loves archaeology with a passion and also enjoys swimming, hiking, reading, and is a die-hard San Francisco Giants fan.

Joanne Sidlovsky Grant
Analysis
Joanne is a recent transplant to the Bay Area. Having grown up on the East coast, she is thrilled to live in California , where she finally has good hair days. She earned her M.A. in Classical Archaeology from Florida State University in Tallahassee . As a graduate student, she was employed at the Southeast Archeological Center as a Museum Technician, where she identified and processed thousand of artifacts into Re:Descovery and was forced to change her Lotus password on a daily basis. Joanne is eager to become involved in California archaeology and to continue her training in collections management.

Erica Simmons
Geoarchaeology Analysis
Erica is a senior at Stanford University double-majoring in Archaeology and Geological and Environmental Sciences. This is her third year participating in the Presidio project, and she is looking forward to another great summer. Last season in El Polin Springs, she focused on the interesting stratigraphy of the site as the geoarchaeology intern. The work she is doing this week in the lab will contribute to her honors thesis on adobe from sites at the Presidio. She lives in Calais, Maine and also enjoys gardening, singing, and photography.

Cheryl Smith-Lintner
Zooarchaeology Analysis
Cheryl Smith-Lintner is a Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her dissertation involves a zooarchaeological study of El Presidio de San Francisco and Rancho San Antonio, as seen through the experiences of the Peraltas, a prominent Californio family in early historic California, and their social interactions with their laborers, neighbors, and foreign visitors. She had been doing zooarchaeology for seven years and thoroughly enjoys playing with bones.

Research Team

Darci Arthur
Volunteer
Darci recently graduated with honors from Mills College, majoring in Anthropology with a minor in English. She fell in love with archaeology after taking a few classes in the field. Darci has been volunteering with the project since February of this year assisting in laboratory analysis. She will soon relocate to her native Hawaii where she will pursue a career in Cultural Resource Management.

Rebecca Daly
Volunteer
Rebecca is a first year graduate student in the Archaeology at Stanford University’s Department of Cultural and social anthropology. Her experience includes bone analysis for the site at Catalhoyuk in Turkey, while also exploring the archaeological use of the terms “art” and “decoration.” In her (limited) free time, she dances, hikes, reads copiously, and is eagerly awaiting the release of the Firefly movie, “Serenity”, in September.

Jessica Lobedan
Volunteer
Jessica is currently a junior at Redwood High School in Larkspur, California. She was interested in volunteering for After the Dig for many reasons. Jessica is a descendant of the De Haro and Sanchez line. Her Sanchez ancestors were members of the De Anza expedition that established the Presidio in the late 1700’s. Her previous archaeological experiences….. finding Native American artifacts in her own backyard-obsidian arrowheads, mortars and pestles!

Christopher Branson Lowman
Volunteer
Christopher is a rising senior at Gunn High School in Palo Alto. This is his third summer with the project. He looks forward to studying archaeology in college. In his spare time he enjoys writing and fencing saber.

James D. Smiley, II
Volunteer
JD is entering his senior year at Junipero Serra High School in San Mateo, California. He has been working for Dr. Voss for over a year, volunteering for the project last summer and throughout this past school year. He feels privileged, particularly for a high school student, to have the opportunity to work with such an impressive team from across the nation. JD will be busy this summer, taking a cultural anthropology course at the College of San Mateo as well as interning for Liz Clevenger at the Presidio Archaeology Lab. He runs cross country and track for Serra and enjoys spending time with his family.

Project Partners

Sannie Kenton Osborn, PhD, RPA
Presidio Trust Supervisory Historical Archaeologist
Sannie joined the Presidio Trust's Stewardship and Compliance office in March 2000 after spending eighteen years as an archaeologist with the Sacramento District Corps of Engineers. It was through her work at the Corps that she was originally connected to the Presidio's significant archaeological resources, including the original discovery of the foundations of El Presidio de San Francisco with Vance Benté and Barb Voss in 1993. When the Trust presented the opportunity to return to the"northernmost frontier of New Spain ", Sannie could not pass up the chance to be involved with continuation of the important archaeological research at the Presidio. The colonial occupation of the Presidio coincides with her doctoral investigations (1997 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee ) at the Russian outpost of Fort Ross , just north of San Francisco in Sonoma County . One of Sannie's responsibilities, along with colleagues Eric Blind, Megan Wilkinson and Leo Barker, is the development of an archaeological management strategy for El Presidio. She is also participating in the Doyle Drive replacement project archaeological studies. Sannie was recently on the Executive Board of the Society for California Archaeology including one year as society president, continues to serve as the Pacific West current research editor for the Society for Historical Archaeology and is a member of the Repatriation Committee of the Society for American Archaeology. In addition to her archaeological interests, Sannie is an avid cyclist who bikes to work (watch out Lance Armstrong!) and is a member of the Embarcadero YMCA Women's Triathlon Club.

Eric Brandan Blind
Presidio Trust Archaeologist
Eric Blind was born on Friday the 13th. His first knowledge of the Presidio was shared with him - while still a boy - by his father who passed out in a Scotch Bar while awaiting an Army Transport from the Presidio to Japan . Eric attended a small liberal arts college with a vigorous archaeology program, which he disdained. He graduated without honors. After a brief biological career intimidating alligators and dissecting various road-kill in the Everglades of Florida, he accepted an opportunity to perform some archaeological research at the Presidio in 1997. He journeyed by train across the country to San Francisco , thus enabling him to fulfill a boyhood fantasy of being a hobo. After successfully researching the amount of horse manure and trash deposited in an old marsh at the Presidio, he accepted a job offer with the Presidio Trust as an Archaeological Technician. During the ensuing years Eric lost his technical proficiencies and was reclassified as an Archaeologist. He has been a project advisor during Professor Voss's fieldwork at the Presidio and is lead author with Barb Voss, Sannie Osborn, and Leo Barker on an article for the journal 'Historical Archaeology' about the Spanish Presidio. His research interests include geo-morphologic change, ethno-botany, genetic and memetic colonization, and identity creation in colonial cultures. His hobbies include surfing, black and white photography, subverting corrupt power structures, and teasing missionaries.

Leo Barker
National Park Service Historic Archaeologist
Leo is an historical archaeologist, and has worked with the National Park Service since 1979. He was educated at De Anza College, San Jose State University , and then again at San Francisco State University where he received his Master's Degree in Anthropology in 1978. He also completed graduate studies in Historical Archaeology at the University of California at Berkeley between 1980 and 1984. He has worked in the Presidio and Golden Gate NRA since 1995. Mr. Barker has conducted archaeological and historic preservation work in California , the western United States , and in Polynesia and Micronesia . His research interests include Hispanic material culture, military and industrial historic archaeology, information technology, integrated preservation planning, and beat culture history. He lives in Woodacre, Marin County , with his wife Grace, son Wes, and pets Exeter of Metaluna (collie), Ringo Kid (cat), and Jessie James (cat). He is currently listening to live Led Zeppelin good and loud, and comes to the nicknames Luthor Crissy and Raoul Duke. Oh yes, he works hard for your money.