Cultural Resource Management

The Center offers important collaborative services for local Cultural Resource Management (CRM) firms conducting research. We work on projects both in the field and in the laboratory. We have worked in many places as part of larger ongoing projects, including the Wilder Ranch Archaeology survey, the Big Basin Survey, the Hidden Villa survey, the Midpenninsula Open Space District survey at Mindego Hill, the Palo Alto Foothill Park survey, the Valley Medical Center Cemetery project and others. In the right hand photo Lindsey Sauln directs mapping with the total station, she has transferred to the prestigious forensic program at Mercyhurst University in Pennsylvania.

In 2014 the Center has initiated a long-term cultural landscape study with the MROSD (Mid-peninsula Regional Open Space District) and Stanford University, forming together the Bay Area Cultural Landscape Research Group (BACLRG). Students from Foothill College are conducting surveys in the Santa Cruz Mountains as part of the research program. Currently we are doing laboratory analysis and generating reports on our first months of survey in the mountains. Several important new archaeological sites are being investigated.