Douglas E. Shaver, M.S., R.P.A.

3609 N.W. Oakcrest Drive

Kansas City, Missouri 64151

(816) 213-8281

deshaver@yahoo.com

Education:

2009 B.L.A. with a Minor in Anthropology from the University of Missouri, Kansas City.

2011 M.S. Environmental and Cultural Geosciences from the University of Missouri, Kansas City. Thesis title: A GIS Compilation of Field Data from the Smith’s Fork Archaeological Site (23CL223), Clay County, Missouri

2012 G.I.S. certification from the University of Missouri Kansas City

2012 University of Montana-Bozeman’s Graduate Level Native American Studies Certificate.

2012 Project Archaeology-Investigating Shelter

-Mr. Shaver is currently enrolled in the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Graduate Studies Interdisciplinary PhD. Program with Geosciences as the coordinating unit and History as the co-discipline.

Previous Work Experience:

Over 10 years of management experience

Twenty years of construction, remodel and maintenance experience.

Effective communicator with excellent verbal and written skills

Experienced manager, specializing in construction and property management

Vast knowledge of carpentry, electrical, plumbing, landscaping, phone and alarm systems, general construction and remodeling 

Commercial and residential client and vendor experience

Ability to coach and supervise teams and individuals

Ability to work independently

Honors and Awards:

2009 Dean’s List (UMKC)

2009-2010 Nell J.S. Querl Scholarship

2012 Recipient of the J. Mett Shippee Award for outstanding service from the Kansas City Archaeological Society

Field Research:

2009-Field School Bates County Archaeological Field School, Amsterdam, Mo

I participated in this field school which focused on two sites. One of a farmstead and the other a general store that had been related to/or directly affected by General Order No. 11 and the Border Wars. I also worked with a group from AMEC on magnetic resistivity testing of the homestead site prior to the field school.

2009-Field Research Smithfork, Smithville, Mo.

I worked with Graduate student Jeff Eis from the Geosciences Department at the University of Missouri, Kansas City along with Dr. L. Mark Raab and Jejung Lee, and District Archaeologist for the Corp of Engineers Timothy Meade doing Ground Penetrating Radar in order to locate areas of interest for future sampling and excavation of a prehistoric Native American site.

April 2010-Field Research Smithfork, Smithville, Mo.

    Phase 2 Field work on Site 23CL223. A Steed-Kisker site. (Mark Raab, PhD.)

May 2010-Continued Phase 2 Field Research on site 23CL223. (Mark Raab, PhD.)

Aug. 7-8, 2010-Auger coring and survey of a possible Burn Order site in Bates County, Missouri. (Ann Raab)

March 5-10, 2012-Field excavations and metal detector survey of the Kansa Blue Earth Village site, 14PO24, in Manhattan, Kansas for the Kansas Historical Society. John Tomasic, PhD.)

Field Survey Work:

Oct. 2009-Phase 2 Field Survey, Salem, Missouri

Phase 2 Field Survey work with Effigy Archaeological Services, 10701 West 116^th Terrace, Overland Park, Kansas 66210 Supervised by Thomas Gannon. Work performed for the Mark Twain National Forest near Salem, Missouri.

Nov. 2009-Phase II Testing at 23JA249

Phase 2 Testing at 23JA249, Longview Lake, Jackson County, Missouri with John Peterson-Archaeologist for Jackson County, Missouri and Tim Meade-District Archaeologist U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Dec. 2009-Phase 1 Field Survey, Salem, Missouri Phase I Field Survey work with Effigy Archaeological Services, 10701 West 116^th Terrace, Overland Park, Kansas 66210 Supervised by Thomas Gannon. Work performed for the Mark Twain National Forest near Salem, Missouri

May 20-27, 2010 Phase 1 Field Survey, Smithville Lake, Missouri

Phase I Field work with the Center for Archaeological Research, Missouri State University, 622 S. Kimbrough, Springfield, Missouri  65897 (Neal Lopinot, PhD.)

June 3-10, 2010 Phase 1 Field Survey, Smithville Lake, Missouri and Longview Lake,  Missouri. Phase I Field work with the Center for Archaeological Research, Missouri State University, 622 S. Kimbrough, Springfield, Missouri  65897 (Neal Lopinot, PhD.)

June 28 through July 30, 2010 Phase 1 Survey, Wappapello Lake, Missouri Phase 1 Field work with the Center for Archaeological Research, Missouri State University, 622 S. Kimbrough, Springfield, Missouri 65897 (Neal Lopinot, PhD.)

Sept. 14, 2010 Phase 1 Survey, Smithville Lake, Missouri Phase 1 Field work with the Center for Archaeological Research, Missouri State University, 622 S. Kimbrough, Springfield, Missouri 65897 (Neal Lopinot, PhD.)

Nov. 29-Dec. 3, 2010 Test Excavation of site 14CW367

Test excavation of a turn of the century coal mining town Dunkirk, Kansas near present day Pittsburg, Kansas for the Kansas Historical Society. (John Tomasic, PhD.)

Jan. 5-10, 2011 Phase 1 Survey Mark Twain National Forest, Poplar Bluff, Missouri

Phase I Field Survey work with Effigy Archaeological Services, 10701 West 116^th Terrace, Overland Park, Kansas 66210 Supervised by Thomas Gannon. Work performed for the Mark Twain National Forest near Poplar Bluff, Missouri

April 2011 Pedestrian Survey, Ottawa, Kansas

Pedestrian Survey of future wetland sanctuary for the Kansas Historical Society. (John Tomasic, PhD.)

April 28-29, 2011 Pedestrian Survey, Waterville, Kansas.

Pedestrian Survey of Tuttle Creek and site 14MH02 near Waterville, Kansas for the Kansas Historical Society. (John Tomasic, PhD.)

June 22, 2011 Phase II Survey, Ogden, Kansas

    Phase II Survey near Ogden, Kansas for the Kansas Historical Society. (Bob Horde, PhD.)

July 5-8, 2011 Phase II Survey, Goodland, Kansas

    Phase II Survey of proposed burrow areas requested by KDOT. Kansas Historical Society.

    (Bob Horde, PhD.)

    Dec. 30, 2011 Phase II Testing, The Zuk Site (14WY321). Kansas Historical Society.

    (John Tomasic, PhD.)

Jan. 26-27, 2012 Phase I Testing, Atchison, Kansas. Kansas Historic Society. (John Tomasic, PhD.)

May 9-11, 2012 Site monitoring during the construction of agricultural terraces. Norton, Kansas. Kansas Historical Society. (John Tomasic, PhD.)

Reports:

    2011-The Jabez Smith Site-23JA1702

    2011-The George Family Historic Cemetery-G.P.R. survey and report

2012-Archological Survey of the Lone Jack Battlefield Park, Jackson County, Missouri. Co-authored with John Peterson, Archaeologist for Jackson County, Missouri and Steve Wilson.    

Sites Recorded:

23JA1702-Jackson County, Missouri-Jabez Smith Historic Site with a prehistoric component. (March 7, 2011)

14FD105-Ford County, Kansas-Soule Canal Historic Site. (June 28, 2011)

14GY101-Gray County, Kansas-Soule Canal Historic Site. (June 28, 2011)

GIS Work:

May 2011-Created a series of maps of the Soule Canal, which runs 96 miles across Ford and Gray Counties in Kansas for Davis Preservation Inc. as part of their requirements to nominate the Soule Canal to the National Register of Historic Sites

Presentations:

March 2011

Steed-Kisker Archaeology: Cooperative Research on the Smith’s Fork Site, Clay County, Missouri.  A joint presentation with Dr. Gina Powell given at the 2011 Missouri Archaeological Societies Annual Meeting.

May 2011

Steed-Kisker Archaeology: Cooperative Research on the Smith’s Fork Site, Clay County, Missouri.  This was a joint presentation with Dr. Gina Powell given to the Kansas City Archaeological Societies month meeting.

Sept. 2011

The Jabez Smith Site: Wealth, Cholera and Slave Ownership in Missouri.

Missouri Archaeological Societies Fall 2011 Symposium, The Civil War in Missouri

Oct. 2011  

Steed-Kisker Archaeology: Cooperative Research on the Smith’s Fork Site, Clay County, Missouri.  Midwest Archaeological Conference, La Crosse, Wisconsin

April 2012

A GIS Compilation of Field Data from the Smith’s Fork Archaeological Site (23CL223), Clay County, Missouri.  Flint Hills Conference, Emporia, Kansas

April 21, 2012

Mr. Shaver organized the 77^th Annual Society for American Archaeology Symposium titled- Steed-Kisker: Recent Research and Comparisons. Memphis, Tn.

Steed-Kisker Archaeology: Cooperative Research on the Smith’s Fork Site, Clay County, Missouri. 77^th Annual Society for American Archaeology, Memphis, Tn.

Workshops Attended:

    Feb. 2011 K.A.A. Workshops: Report Writing and Lithic Identification.

Sept. 2011 NAGPRA Webinar sponsored by the National NAGPRA Program covering: Coordinating Compliance with Section 3 of NAGPRA and Section 106 of NHPA

March 2012 NAGPRA Webinar sponsored by the National NAGPRA Program covering: What Difference Does It Make?: NAGPRA Inventories, Summaries, and Federal Register Notices

Educational and Teaching:

August 2010-H.M.S. Beagle Science Club for Kids, Parkville, Missouri

I presented four lectures on North American Archaeologist and what an Archaeologist does.

March 2010- 5^th and 6^th grade Career Day at Spring Garden Middle School, St. Joseph, Missouri-I presented six lectures on “Careers in Archaeology”

March 18, 2010-  The Kansas City 4-H Global Summit consisting of high school age students from Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri and Kansas. I presented two lectures on “Careers in Archaeology”.

March 18, 2011-  The Kansas City 4-H Global Summit consisting of high school age students from Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri and Kansas. I presented two lectures on “Careers in Archaeology”.

Fall 2011- Substitute taught two classes in Cultural Anthropology at Penn Valley Community College.

March 18, 2012- The Kansas City 4-H Global Summit consisting of high school age students from Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri and Kansas. I presented two lectures on “Careers in Archaeology”.

Professional Societies and Memberships:

    Register of Professional Archaeologists, #989549

Society for American Archaeology

Missouri Archaeological Society-Current Board of Trusties member.

Kansas City Archaeological Society (of which Mr. Shaver established and maintains their Facebook page)-current Vice President in charge of scheduling programs

Geological Society of America

Iowa Archaeological Society

Arkansas Archaeological Society

Colorado Archaeological Society

Society for Industrial Archaeology

Society for Applied Anthropology

Society for Historical Archaeology

Plains Anthropological Society

Montana Archaeological Society