Joshua Adam Moss

2022 SE 88^th Ave

Portland, OR 97216

(540) 435-6281

Joshmoss2@gmail.com

EDUCATION           

2012    working toward Professional Certificate in Geographical Information Systems at Penn State University World Campus

2006    B.A. in Anthropology, B.A. in English, James Madison University.

Cum GPA: 3.4

               ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPERIENCE

Field Technician and Crew Chief

Employed by Archaeological and Historical Services, Eastern Washington University, 201 Isle Hall; Cheney, WA 99004 (509-359-2239) from June 2010 through present as a crew chief and field technician on the Grant County Public Utilities District Federal Energy Regulatory Commission license implementation project for Priest Rapids and Wanapum dams. Field technician duties include employment of full knowledge of Trimble 2005 GPS units, excavation of  50x50cm and 1x1m stratigraphic units, hand mapping of large sites and features, and creation of excavation grids with compass and tape. Crew chief duties include leading crews in subsurface eligibility testing, deciding excavation strategy for individual sites within methodology guidelines, making detailed field observations and maps for each site, and making National Register of Historic Places eligibility determinations for individual sites according to state and federal regulations. Sites tested range from pre-contact to historic period.

-Involved in mapping and recordation for damage assessment procedure for site 45KT6 for GCPUD District No. 2

Project Director: Jennifer Wilson, 509-981-0044, jwilson1@ewu.edu

Field Director: Fred Crisson, 509-995-7938, fred.crisson@gmail.com

Field Technician

            Employed by URS Corp. Cincinnati Office, 36 East 7th Street, Suite 2300
            Cincinnati, OH 45202 (1-513-419-3476) from April to June 2010 as field        technician on Phase I shovel test survey on the Equitrans Sunrise natural gas        pipeline corridor in northern West Virginia and southern Pennsylvania. Duties

            included excavation and recordation of shovel tests along the pipeline corridor.

            Project Manager: Ken Duerksen, 513-237-2593, ken_duerksen@urscorp.com

            Field Director: Aaron Ridley, 724-984-3351, aaron_ridley@urscorp.com

Field Technician

Employed by Garcia and Associates, 1 Saunders Ave, San Anselmo, CA 94960-1719, (1-415-458-5803) from September to November 2009 as a field technician on Phase I pedestrian survey in the San Bernardino National Forest. Duties included completion of California Department of Parks and Recreation primary record and feature forms, recording historic and pre-historic sites located during survey, and updating records for previously recorded sites in the project area.

Project manager: Carol Denardo, cdenardo@garciaandassociates.com

Field directors: Bruno Texier, btexier@garciaandassociates.com 415-994-5877

                                      Kruger Frank, kfrank@garciaandassociates.com 415-999-1246

Field Technician/Instructor

Employed by James Madison University from September 2008 to August 2009 as field  technician on survey/mitigation of sites related to Cedar Creek Battlefield that are threatened by the expansion of Chemstone/Carmuese limestone quarry in Middleton, VA. Duties included the instruction of undergraduates in field methods, overseeing metal detector survey, phase I pedestrian and shovel test survey, use of Trimble GPS units, recording and mapping sites by hand and with Nikon total station, and contributing to reports that meet DHR/SHPO standards in Virginia. Work was conducted alone and as part of a team. Sites include colonial era habitations, early woodlands lithic scatters, and civil war encampments, earthworks and battle-lines.

Supervising Phd/Grantee: Dr. Clarence Geier, geiercr@jmu.edu 540-568-3415

Field Supervisors: Kim Tinkham, tinkhakd@jmu.edu

                              Alyson Wood, alysonlwood@gmail.com

Archaeology Lab phone: +1 540 568 6011

Teaching Assistant: Employed as a paid teaching assistant on the summer 2008 James               Madison University/Michigan State University field school at Gran Quivira, New     Mexico. Duties included the instruction/supervision of a crew of four undergraduates in the excavation of pueblo architecture at Frank’s Ruin (LA 9032) in the Salinas district of New Mexico and in the processing of artifacts and float samples in the field laboratory. The research was directed towards illuminating the architectural trends and occupational sequence of this pueblo.

Project Directors: Dr. Alison Rautman, rautman@msu.edu 517-355-5149
Dr. Matthew Chamberlin, chambema@jmu.edu, 540-568-5201

Field Technician: Employed by R. Christopher Goodwin and Associates,

241 East Fourth Street, Suite 100, Frederick, MD 21701, (301) 694-0428
frederick@rcgoodwin.com, as a field technician on the Rocky Mountain Express (REX) and EME pipeline projects in southeastern Ohio. REX involved Phase I survey and Phase II investigation/trenching of sites discovered during Phase I. EME involved a Phase III excavation of a possible early woodlands mound site. Employed by R.C. Goodwin from April-June 08.

Project Director: Colby Child,  cchild@rcgoodwin.com, 301-694-0428

Field Technician: Employed by William and Mary Center for Archaeological Research,

327 Richmond Road, Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795, (757) 221-2580, as field technician on short-term phase one and two projects, including the following:

-Fairfax Indigent Cemetery Survey, Fairfax County, VA. Dec. 2007. Project field director, Elizabeth Monroe, PhD

-Fairfax Civil War Survey, City of Fairfax, VA. Dec. 2007. Project field director, Will Moore

-James Monroe Birthplace Evaluation, Colonial Beach, VA. Jan. 2008. Project field director, Elizabeth Monroe, PhD

-Colonial Parkway Survey, Williamsburg, VA. Jan/Feb. 2008 (still in progress). Field supervisor Courtney Burkett

-Route 1001 survey, Dilwyn, VA. March 2008. Project field director, Elizabeth Monroe, PhD

-Route 205 Evaluation, Colonial Beach, VA, March 2008. Project field director, Elizabeth Monroe, PhD

-These projects involved systematic shovel testing, metal detector survey,             excavation of 1x2 test units, and excavation of features within a machine excavated area.

Laboratory Assistant: James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia

            Spring/Summer 2006

      -Project Director: Dr. Julie Solometo

-Participating in the analysis of ceramic artifacts collected during the 2005 JMU field school in Arizona.

Field Technician: James Madison University Field School, Chevelon,

            Arizona, summer 2005

-Project Director: Dr. Julie Solometo, Assistant Professor, Department of      Anthropology, James Madison University.

-Participated in the location, surface survey and mapping of sites according to Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest specifications, as well as excavation. This field school’s research project was designed to investigate changing social relations, patterns of settlement and inter-regional exchange in the Chevelon and Clear Creek drainages in the 11th to 14th centuries A.D.

PRESENTATIONS

2007    “Gender roles, family life, and the allocation of tasks in National Geographic’s  artistic recreations of ancient life,” co-authored with Dr. Julie Solometo. Poster presented (by Dr. Solometo) at the 72^nd  Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Austin, Texas (April 27^th)

2007        “Envisioning the Past:  The Prehistory of Gender and Commerce
in the pages of 'National Geographic”. Paper presented at the Art +Anthropology Forum, organized by the School of Art and Art History and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, James Madison University

OTHER WORK QUALIFICATIONS

-Work in the retail and restaurant/bar industries (details provided upon request) has given experience dealing with people in a professional manner.

-Thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail (GA to ME, March thru October 2007) has rendered me comfortable with long hikes over rough terrain in inclement weather carrying a lot of equipment and water.

-Familiar with ArcGIS, Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint, as well as Adobe Photoshop

REFERENCES

- Jennifer Wilson, Project Director EWU/AHS, 509-981-0044, jwilson1@ewu.edu

-Kruger Frank, Archaeologist, Garcia and Associates, 1 Saunders Ave, San Anselmo CA, 94960-1719. kfrank@garciaandassociates.com 415-999-1246

-Kim Tinkham, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, MSC 7501, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA 22807. tinkhakd@jmu.edu  540-568-6011

-Dr. Julie Solometo, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, MSC 7501, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA 22807. solomejp@jmu.edu. 540-568-2625

-Dr. Elizabeth Monroe, Project Archaeologist, William and Mary Center for Archaeological Research, 327 Richmond Road, Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795. ejmonr@wm.edu. 757-221-2581