Our Projects
Projects at rock imagery sites include mapping, photography, tracing, condition assessment, graffiti removal, collection of samples for physical analysis and dating, design of psychological barriers, interpretation and presentation, and writing of site management plans. Rock imagery motifs and associated natural layers are interpreted like archaeological deposits; complicated direct overlaps are recorded in Harris Diagram formats.
Archaeology encompasses limited excavation and detailed descriptions of cultural, historical, and environmental contexts, as well as research questions, fieldwork and laboratory methods, field excavation results, laboratory identification results, and syntheses. Stratum adds graphics to reports, including maps, site and feature drawings, excavation plan and profile drawings, radiocarbon date sequences, statistical graphs, artifact drawings, and overall synthesis diagrams.
Geographical Experience
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Work Outside the Continental United States
Bolivia (SIARB), Canada (Alberta Tourism, Parks, and Recreation), France (French Ministry of Culture and Tourism), Hawaii (AMS), Jamaica (University of the West Indies), Lesotho (Lesotho Highlands Water Authority), Mexico (UNESCO, INAH, and the GCI), Puerto Rico (Jacksonville Army Corps of Engineers), Peru (Proyecto Alpaca), and Tanzania (ICCROM).
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Rock Imagery Work Within the Continental United States
Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority), Arizona (City of Flagstaff, National Park Service, and Forest Service), California (BLM, National Park Service, San Diego Utilities Department, Naval Facilities Engineering Command Southwest and Soledad Mountain Golden Queen Mining), Connecticut (Sanford Town Council), Georgia (Forest Service, Geo-Enviro Engineering, and Jackson County), Idaho (BLM), Michigan (Michigan State Housing Development Authority), Montana (Montana Department of Transportation, Forest Service, and Montana Fish and Wildlife), Nevada (BLM, Red Rock Canyon Interpretive Association, Friends of Red Rock Canyon, National Park Service, and The Howard Hughes Corporation), New Mexico (BLM, National Park Service, and Forest Service), North Carolina (Duke Energy, Forest Service, Friends of DuPont State Forest, and Jackson County), North Dakota (Forest Service), Oregon (Bureau of Reclamation and Forest Service), South Carolina (South Carolina Department of Natural Resources), Tennessee (Tennessee Valley Authority), Texas (Texas Parks and Wildlife and Texas Rock Art Foundation), Utah (National Park Service), Washington State (US Army Corps of Engineers), Wisconsin (Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center and The Van Holten Estate and Waterloo Museum), and Wyoming (BLM, Eastern Shoshone Tribal Historical Office, Patterson & Prahl, LLP, Wyoming State Parks and Historic Sites, Wyoming Travel and Tourism).