Curriculum Vitae Lynne Sebastian SRI Foundation 333 Rio Rancho Drive NE, Ste. 103, Rio Rancho NM 87124 (505) 892-5587, f ax (505) 896-1136, email: lsebastian@srifoundation.org EDUCATION B.A., English and Secondary Education, University of Michigan, 1969 M.A., English Literature, University of Utah, 1977 Ph.D., Anthropology, University of New Mexico, 1988 SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION 2013 2016 Expert Member, Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, 2012 2014 President, Register of Professional Archaeologists 2007 2011 Technical Expert, Historic and Cultural Resources, American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, Center for Environmental Excellence 2006-2009 Member, Resource Advisory Council, USDI Bureau of Land Management New Mexico 2007 Chair, Nominating Committee, The Society for American Archaeology 2003-2005 President, The Society for American Archaeology 2001-2002 Editor, Insights column, The SAA Archaeological Record 2001-2002 Chair, Government Affairs Committee, The Society for American Archaeology 2000-2006 Member, Committee on Historic and Archaeological Preservation in Transportation (A1F05), Transportation Research Board, The National Academy of Sciences 1997-1999 Secretary, The Society for American Archaeology 1992-1996 Public Education Committee, The Society for American Archaeology 1998-present 1990-present Registered Professional Archaeologist Adjunct Professor of Anthropology, University of New Mexico 1
HONORS AND AWARDS 2014 Lifetime Award in Archaeology, New Mexico Archeological Council 2009 Charles R. McGimsey III Hester A. Davis Distinguished Service Award from the Register of Professional Archaeologists 2000 New Mexico Heritage Preservation Award 2000 Award of Honor, New Mexico Archeological Council 1999 Government Award, American Cultural Resources Association HISTORIC PRESERVATION EXPERIENCE Historic Preservation Advisor, SRI Foundation (2015-present) Responsibilities: develop and teach continuing professional education courses in cultural resource management; provide technical assistance on compliance with Section 106 and other historic preservation laws on an as-needed basis. Director of Historic Preservation Programs, SRI Foundation, 2001-2015 Responsibilities: develop and teach continuing professional education and continuing legal education courses in cultural resource management; provide technical assistance and expert testimony for Section 106 and other historic preservation compliance topics; research and develop best-practices information on cultural resource management issues; carry out public education and outreach projects. Director, Continuing Education, Senior Archaeologist, Statistical Research, Inc. 2000-2001 Responsibilities: develop and manage continuing professional education program in cultural resource management; provide expertise in historic preservation planning and legal compliance; provide project management for compliance with federal historic preservation laws and regulations; carry out synthetic and interpretive archaeological research. State Historic Preservation Officer, State of New Mexico, 1997-1999 Responsibilities: Director of the State Historic Preservation Division of the Office of Cultural Affairs. Staff size: 28; budget $1.7 million. Administer state and federal historic preservation laws; provide technical assistance to federal, state, and local government agencies; maintain and make available information 2
concerning historic and prehistoric properties and surveys; maintain the National and State Registers of historic properties; public education and outreach; technical assistance and preservation incentives for owners of historic and prehistoric sites. New Mexico State Archaeologist, 1992-1997 Responsibilities: review state undertakings for effect on archaeological resources; issue and monitor permits for archaeological work on state lands; prepare scholarly and popular publications about the archaeology of New Mexico; develop and carry out public archaeology and archaeological education programs; maintain statewide archaeological site and survey data base; serve as steward of and advocate for the archaeological resources of New Mexico. Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer, State of New Mexico, 1987-1997 Responsibilities: Review of Section 106 compliance process; consultation with federal, state, and local agencies and with Native Americans and other traditional communities about preservation planning, archaeological research designs, and mitigation plans; planning and organization of public education activities; supervision of publications program; office administration. ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELDWORK 1978 University of Utah Archaeological Field School Position: student Nature of fieldwork: Received intensive instruction in excavation, note-taking, mapping, photography, and preliminary laboratory analysis; some write-up responsibility as well. Project involved preliminary excavations at a large Fremont village in central Utah. 1979-1980 Dolores Archaeological Project Position: assistant crew chief, crew chief. Responsibilities: directed excavation of a Pueblo I hamlet, comprising a 21-room roomblock, two large pitstructures, and an intact midden, in southwestern Colorado. 1981 University of New Mexico Archaeological Field School 3
Position: teaching assistant Responsibilities: established site grid, prepared plan, topographic, and architectural features maps; taught plane table mapping and use of surveying instruments to field school students. The project involved salvage excavations at LA 282, a large, badly vandalized Pueblo IV Piro site near Socorro, New Mexico. 1981-1982 University of New Mexico Office of Contract Archeology, Navajo Mine Archeological Program Position: crew chief Responsibilities: directed excavation of 12 Pueblo I - Pueblo III sites slated for destruction by coal strip mining. Write-up responsibilities included both site reports and synthetic chapters about the nature of the Anasazi occupation in the region. Sites ranged from sherd and lithic scatters through field houses to a small pueblo with kivas; northern San Juan Basin, New Mexico. 1983 University of New Mexico Archaeological Field School Position: teaching assistant Responsibilities: assisted in teaching mapping with EDM; ran field laboratory processing and labeling artifacts; supervised preliminary lithic analysis. Project involved continuing excavations at Rowe Pueblo, a large Pueblo IV site near Pecos, New Mexico. 1983 University of New Mexico Office of Contract Archeology Position: project director Responsibilities: Perform and report on small Cultural Resource Management surveys on a contract basis. 1984-1985 University of New Mexico Office of Contract Archeology, Turquoise Trail Project Position: crew chief, project director Responsibilities: Supervise test excavations and write up testing results for three sites small Pueblo II-IV sites; direct excavation of a multicomponent 4
BMIII/PII site containing multiple pitstructures, surface rooms, and extramural features; supervise artifact analysis; write excavation report. Project carried out to mitigate effects of road construction, Hopi Reservation, northeastern Arizona. 1986 University of New Mexico Office of Contract Archeology Chacoan Outlier Stabilization Evaluation Project Position: project director Responsibilities: Supervise a crew evaluating two Chacoan outliers slated for stabilization and backfilling; high resolution mapping, both topographic and architectural, and detailed architectural evaluation of great house structures at Twin Angels (near Bloomfield, NM) and Kin Nizhoni (near Grants, NM). 1987 University of New Mexico Office of Contract Archeology Bolack Excavation Project Position: project director Responsibilities: Supervise two crews carrying out excavation of two early Navajo sites with structures and one PII/PIII pueblo with roomblock, kivas, pithouse, and extramural work area; partial responsibility for write-up. Sites were part of a BLM land exchange. ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH 1985-1986 Office of Contract Archeology, University of New Mexico Class I Overview of the Roswell BLM District, New Mexico Nature of Research: Review and synthesis of previous archaeological and historical research in the Roswell District of southeastern New Mexico. Covers Paleoindian, Archaic, Ceramic, Protohistoric, Spanish Colonial, Mexican, and Angloamerican periods and offers syntheses of major adaptations for each period. 1985-1986 National Park Service, Southwest Region Settlement Pattern Study for the Chaco Additions Survey 5
Nature of Research: Study of settlement patterns and demography within four areas added to the Chaco Culture National Historical Park. Includes discussions of functional site typologies, temporal and spatial trends, demography, and site location with respect to environmental variables. 1985-1988 Bureau of Land Management, Denver Service Center Archaeological Predictive Modeling Project Nature of Research: A multiauthored study of the theory, methods, practice, and applications of predictive modeling to archaeology in general and to cultural resource management in particular. I wrote one chapter and served as general volume editor for the book. PRESENTED PAPERS 1980 The definition of Fremont: a failure of the materialist perspective? Paper presented at the Great Basin Anthropological Conference, Salt Lake City, September 1980. 1990 Chaco Canyon and the Anasazi Southwest: Changing Views of Sociopolitical Organization. Paper presented at the 55th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Las Vegas, April 1990. 1990 Productive Potential and Cultural Complexity in Chaco Canyon. With Patrick Hogan. Paper presented at the American Association for the Advancement of Science Meetings, New Orleans, February 1990. 1991 New Mexico Heritage Preservation Week: Friendly Advice from Those on the Front Lines. Paper presented with David Cushman at the 49th Annual Plains Anthropological Conference, Lawrence, Kansas, November 1991. 1991 Traditional Cultural Properties and the Section 106 Process. Paper presented at the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation Conference on Traditional Cultural Properties, Denver, November 1991. 1993a Protecting Traditional Cultural Properties Through the Section 106 Process. Paper presented at the 58th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, St. Louis, April 1993. 6
1993b Taking Charge in Chaco: The Evolution of Political Structure. Paper presented at the 1993 Chacmool Conference, Calgary, November 1993. 1994a What is Section 106? How Did I Get Into This? What Am I Supposed to Do About It? Paper presented at Federal & Indian Lands Development: Accommodating Historic & Cultural Resources Under Federal Law. American Bar Association Section on Natural Resources, Energy, and Environmental Law, San Antonio, September 1994. 1994b Relations of Social Power in Chacoan Society. Paper presented at the 59th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Anaheim, April 1994. 1995 History, Contingency, and Process: Ways of Thinking about Change in the Past. With Randall H. McGuire. Keynote address at the Durango Conference on Southwestern Archaeology, Durango, Colorado, September 1995. 2000a Power, Politics, and Rational Self-Interest: the Chaco Case. With John Kantner. Paper presented at The Dynamics of Power, The 17 th Annual Visiting Scholar Conference Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, March 2000. 2000b Preservation Strategies for Archaeological Sites. Paper presented in session on Preserving Southwestern Prehistory at the National Trust for Historic Preservation Conference 2000, Los Angeles, November 2000. 2000c An Update on Historic Preservation. Paper presented at the 2000 National Mining Association Mining Lawyers Conference, Santa Fe, September 2000. 2001a Significance Determinations for Interstate Highways. Paper presented at Discover the Past, Plan for the Future, the summer workshop of the Transportation Research Board committee on Historic and Archaeological Preservation in Transportation, Key West, July 2001. 2001b Training in CRM: Students, Professionals, and Practitioners. With Jeffrey H. Altschul. Paper presented at the 100 th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C., November 2001. 2002a The Conservation Model Today: Bill Lipe and Historic Preservation. Paper presented in the symposium William D. Lipe: Researcher in Southwestern Archaeology, Leader in Public Archaeology. The 67 th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Denver, March 2002. 7
2002b Large-Scale Feasting and Politics: An Essay on Power in Precontact Southwestern Societies. With David A. Phillips, Jr. Paper presented in the symposium Feasting and Commensal Politics in the Prehispanic Southwest, Southwest Symposium, Tucson, January 2002. 2002c Historic Preservation and Local Communities: Who Cares? Paper presented in a session on Cultural Resources Challenges and Communities, 2002 Federal Highway Administration Southern Resource Center Environmental Conference, Santa Fe, June 2002. 2007 Archaeology, Information, Eligibility, and Significance. Paper presented in the symposium New Knowledge for Old Sites: the Value of Revisiting Sites and their Collections. 72 nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Austin, April 2007. 2009 Creative Mitigation? How Would THAT Help Readiness? Presentation at The Department of Defense 2009 Sustaining Military Readiness Conference, Phoenix, August 2009. 2010 Flag and Avoid: The Perception and the Reality. Presentation in a forum entitled: Facing Up to Avoidance: A Hard Look at Flag-and-Avoid Archaeology, 75 th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, St. Louis, April 2010. 2013 Flexible, Pragmatic Approaches to Historic Preservation Compliance. With Terry H. Klein. Paper presented in the symposium Preservation Archaeology and the Bellwether Nonprofits of the Southwest. 78 th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Honolulu, April 2013. 2014a A Symposium: 40 Years of CRM (1974-2014): Accomplishments, Challenges, and Opportunities. Discussant. 79 th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Austin, April 2014. 2014b Can You Get a JOB Doing That? The SRIF/UMD Summer Institute in Cultural Resource Management. Paper presented in the symposium The Training and Future of Young CRM Archaeologists. 79 th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Austin, April 2014. PUBLICATIONS 1978a Rock art in Moqui Canyon. In Archaeological Research in Glen Canyon, 1977, by Alan R. Schroedl. National Park Service, Midwest Archeological Center, Lincoln, Nebraska. 8
1978b Rock art. In Survey and evaluation of archeological and historical resources, Central Utah Project, 1977, edited by Edward B. Sisson. Report to the National Park Service, Department of Anthropology, University of Utah. 1980 The variants of the Fremont: a methodological evaluation. With Patrick Hogan. Utah Division of State History, Antiquities Section Selected Papers Volume 7:13-16. 1982 Site structure and Nunamiut ethnoarcheology. With Martha Graham and Carol Raish. Haliksa'i, University of New Mexico Contributions to Anthropology 1. 1983a Anasazi site descriptions. In Economy and Interaction along the Lower Chaco River, edited by Patrick Hogan and Joseph C. Winter. pp. 105-188. University of New Mexico Office of Contract Archeology, Albuquerque. 1983b Anasazi site typology and chronology. In Economy and Interaction along the Lower Chaco River, edited by Patrick Hogan and Joseph C. Winter. pp. 403-420. University of New Mexico Office of Contract Archeology, Albuquerque. 1983c Regional interaction: the Puebloan adaptation. In Economy and Interaction along the Lower Chaco River, edited by Patrick Hogan and Joseph C. Winter. pp. 445-452. University of New Mexico Office of Contract Archeology, Albuquerque. 1983d Digging Out the Hidden Past. With Patrick Hogan. Professional Surveyor Volume 3 Number 3. 1984 Site PAO-83-31, Site PAO-83-32, and Site PAO-83-33. In Archeological Excavation along the Turquoise Trail: The Testing Program, by Patrick Hogan, pp. 27-68. University of New Mexico Office of Contract Archeology, Albuquerque. 1985 Archeological Excavation along the Turquoise Trail: The Mitigation Program. University of New Mexico Office of Contract Archeology, Albuquerque. 1986 Excavations at Prince Hamlet (5MT2161), a Pueblo I Habitation Site. In Dolores Archaeological Program: Anasazi Communities at Dolores: Early Small Settlements in the Dolores River Canyon and Western Sagehen Flats Area, 9
compiled by Timothy A. Kohler, William D. Lipe, and Allen E. Kane, pp. 331-442. USDI Bureau of Reclamation Engineering and Research Center, Denver. 1987 Historic Structure Evaluation Report: The Chacoan Outliers of Twin Angels and Kin Nizhoni. With H. Wolcott Toll. University of New Mexico Office of Contract Archeology, Albuquerque. 1988a Leadership, Power, and Productive Potential: A Political Model of the Chaco System. PhD Dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. 1988b Quantifying the present and predicting the past: Theory, method, and application of archaeological predictive modeling. Edited with W. James Judge. Bureau of Land Management, Denver. 1989 Living on the Land: 11,000 Years of Human Adaptation in Southeastern New Mexico. With Signa Larralde. Cultural Resource Series No. 6, New Mexico Bureau of Land Management, Santa Fe. 1990a Looting and the Law: The View from New Mexico. Archaeology 43(6):52. 1990b Review of Archaeology and the Methodology of Science by Jane H. Kelley and Marsha P. Hanen. New Mexico Historical Review July pp. 397-398. 1991a Archeology of the San Juan Breaks: The Anasazi Occupation. With Patrick Hogan. Office of Contract Archeology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. 1991b Sociopolitical Complexity and the Chaco System. In Chaco and Hohokam: Regional Systems in the American Southwest, edited by Patricia L. Crown and W. James Judge, pp. 109-134. School of American Research, Santa Fe. 1992a The Chaco Anasazi: Sociopolitical Evolution in the Prehistoric Southwest. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 1992b New Mexico Heritage Preservation Week. With David W. Cushman. In State Archaeological Education Programs, edited by William B. Butler, pp. 36-42. National Park Service, Rocky Mountain Region, Division of National Preservation Programs, Denver. 1993 Chaco Canyon and the Anasazi Southwest: Changing Views of Sociopolitical Organization. In Anasazi Regional Organization and the Chaco System, 10
edited by David E. Doyel, pp. 23-31. The Maxwell Museum of Anthropology Anthropological Papers No. 5. Albuquerque. 1993 Protecting Traditional Cultural Properties Through the Section 106 Process. CRM 16:22-26. National Park Service. 1996a Population Aggregation in the Prehistoric North American Southwest. With Timothy A. Kohler. American Antiquity 61:3:597-602. 1996b Taking Charge in Chaco: The Evolution of Political Structure. In Debating Complexity: Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of the Archaeological Association of the University of Calgary, edited by D.A. Meyer, P.C. Dawson, and D.T. Hanna. 1999 I am an Archaeologist. In Lessons from the Past: an Introductory Reader in Archaeology, edited by Kenneth L. Feder. Mayfield Publishing, Mountain View California. 2000 Fort Craig: The United States Fort on the Camino Real, collected papers of the First Fort Craig Conference. Edited with Charles Carroll. USDI Bureau of Land Management. Socorro NM. 2001b Examining the Course of Southwestern Archaeology: The Durango Conference, September 1995, edited with David A. Phillips, Jr., New Mexico Archeological Council Special Publication 3. Albuquerque. 2001b History, Contingency, and Process: Ways of Thinking about Change in the Past. With Randall H. McGuire. In Examining the Course of Southwestern Archaeology: The Durango Conference, September 1995, edited by David A. Phillips, Jr., and Lynne Sebastian, New Mexico Archeological Council Special Publication 3. Albuquerque. 2001 Review of Indigenous Archaeology: American Indian Values and Scientific Practice by Joe Watkins. Journal of Anthropological Research 58:170-171. 2002 Preserving America s Past: Cultural Resource Management and Federal Historic Preservation Laws. Society for American Archaeology MATRIX Project. Washington DC. 2003a The Awful Truth About Archaeology. The SAA Archaeological Record 3(2):35-37. 11
2003b Challenging Road: Recognizing History in Our Interstate Highway System. Common Ground Spring 2003, pp. 12-17. 2003c Programmatic Agreement Tool Kit for State Departments of Transportation Environmental Projects and Programs. With Terry H. Klein. American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, Center for Environmental Excellence. 2004a Archaeology and the Law. In Legal Perspectives on Cultural Resources, edited by Jennifer R. Richman and Marion P. Forsyth, pp. 3-16. Altamira Press, Walnut Creek, California. 2004b Large-Scale Feasting and Politics: An Essay on Power in Precontact Southwestern Societies. With David A. Phillips, Jr. [2]. In Identity, Feasting, and the Archaeology of the Greater Southwest, edited by Barbara J. Mills, pp. 233-258. University Press of Colorado, Boulder. 2004c Predictive Modeling in the Military: Similar Goals, Divergent Paths. With Jeffrey H. Altschul [2] and Kurt Heidelberg. SRI Foundation Preservation Research Series 1. Rio Rancho, New Mexico. 2004d Understanding Chacoan Society. In In Search of Chaco, edited by David Grant Noble, pp. 93-99. School of American Research, Santa Fe. 2005a Adaptive Management and Planning Models for Cultural Resources in Oil and Gas Fields: The New Mexico Pump III Project. With [1] Jeffrey H. Altschul, Chris M. Rohe, Scott Thompson, and William E. Hayden. SRI Foundation Preservation Research Series 5. 2005b Managing Archaeological Investigations: A Synthesis of Highway Practice. With Terry H. Klein, [2], Samantha M. Ruscavage-Barz, Stephanie Ford, and Joe E. Watkins. NCHRP Synthesis 347. Transportation Research Board, Washington D.C. 2005c A Working Conference on Enhancing & Streamlining Section 106 Compliance & Transportation Project Delivery. With Terry H. Klein [2]. SRI Foundation Preservation Research Series 3. Rio Rancho, New Mexico. 2005d A Workshop on Predictive Modeling & Cultural Resource Management on Military Installations. With Jeffrey H. Altschul and Terry H. Klein, [3]. SRI Foundation Preservation Research Series 4. Rio Rancho, New Mexico. 12
2006a The Chaco Synthesis. In The Archaeology of Chaco Canyon: An Eleventh- Century Regional Pueblo Center, edited by Stephen H. Lekson, pp. 393-422. School of American Research Press, Santa Fe. 2006b The Conservation Model Today and Historic Preservation. In Tracking Ancient Footsteps: William D. Lipe s Contributions to Southwestern Prehistory and Public Archaeology, edited by R.G. Matson and Timothy A. Kohler, pp. 109-125. Washington State University Press, Pullman. 2007 Good Colleagues, Good Neighbors. SAA Archaeological Record 7(5):11-13. 2008a Foreword. In Cultural Transmission and Archaeology: Issues and Case Studies, edited by Michael J. O Brien, pp. v-vi. The SAA Press, Washington D.C. 2008b Integrating Archaeological Models: Management and Compliance on Military Installations. With David W. Cushman [2]. SRI Foundation Preservation Research Series 7. Rio Rancho, New Mexico. 2010a Archaeology & Cultural Resource Management: Visions for the Future, edited with [1] William D. Lipe, SAR Press, Santa Fe. 2010b Archaeology and Historic Preservation Law: Twenty-Five Years of Interesting Times. In Voices in American Archaeology, edited by Wendy Ashmore, Dorothy T. Lippert, and Barbara J. Mills, pp. 160-177. The SAA Press, Washington D.C. 2010c Deciding What Matters: Archaeology, Eligibility, and Significance. In Archaeology & Cultural Resource Management: Visions for the Future, edited by Lynne Sebastian and William D. Lipe, pp. 91-114. SAR Press, Santa Fe. 2010d The Future of CRM Archaeology. In Archaeology & Cultural Resource Management: Visions for the Future, edited by Lynne Sebastian and William D. Lipe, pp. 3-18. SAR Press, Santa Fe. 2010e Perspectives from the Advanced Seminar. With Willliam D. Lipe [2]. In Archaeology & Cultural Resource Management: Visions for the Future, edited by Lynne Sebastian and William D. Lipe, pp. 283-297. SAR Press, Santa Fe. 13
2012a Modeling of Archaeological Site Location and Significance at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. With Michael Heilen, Jeffrey H. Altschul, Phillip Leckman, and Adam Byrd. Technical Report 12-06, Statistical Research, Inc., Tucson. 2012b Secrets of the Past, Archaeology, and the Public. In Archaeology in Society: Its Relevance in the Modern World, edited by Marcy Rockman and Joe Flatman. Springer, New York. 2015 Settlement Patterns, Site Typology, and Demographic Analyses: The Archaic, Anasazi, and Unknown Sites. With Jeffrey H. Altschul. In The Chaco Additions Survey, edited by Robert P. Powers and Ruth M. Van Dyke. Reports of the Chaco Center Number 14. National Park Service, Intermountain Region, Santa Fe. http://www.nps.gov/chcu/learn/historyculture/chaco-projectpublications.htm 2016a How Did We Get Here and Where Are We Going? In The National Historic Preservation Act: Past, Present, and Future, edited by Kimball M. Banks and Ann M. Scott, pp. 265-282. Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, New York and London. 2016b Values-based Management of Archaeological Resources at a Landscape Scale. With Francis P. McManamon, John Doershuk, William D. Lipe, Tom McCulloch, Christopher Polglase, Sarah Schlanger, and Lynne Sullivan. Advances in Archaeological Practice, 4(2):132-148. 2017 Purpose, Function, and the Great Houses of Chaco Canyon. In Parallel Passions: A Life Together in Archaeology, Papers in Honor of Karl W. Laumbach and Toni S. Laumbach, edited by Emily J. Brown, Carol J. Condie, and Helen K. Crotty, pp. 169-182. Papers of the Archaeological Society of New Mexico, Volume 43. 2018 If a Genie Offered Me Three Wishes.... In New Perspectives in Cultural Resource Management, edited by Francis P. McManamon, pp. 259-270. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, New York and London. in preparation A Storied Landscape: The Administrative History of Chaco Culture National Historical Park, with Carla R. Van West. 14