My Background

I hold a degree in Geography-Anthropology from the University of Maine system.  Under the anthropology umbrella, my specific concentration was archaeology, and more specifically Africanist archaeology.  I have done quite a bit of archaeology in both in Africa and in the United States, some are: 

• I have worked at Lake Turkana, Kenya, uncovering early hominid footprints (https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16673-fossil-footprints-reveal-our-modern-walk-in-the-making/).

• I have worked under the direction of Dr. Chap Kusimba previously of the Field Museum in Chicago, working in Mtwapa, Kenya excavating Swahili tombs and securing them for DNA analysis here in the US.

• I have worked on a site in Maine for the Passamaquoddy tribe, mapping and analyzing petroglyphs that pre-date the contact period in Maine (https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1512&context=mainehistoryjournal).

• I have worked at the Neville site in Manchester, New Hampshire, a contact-period site. (https://www.peabody.harvard.edu/node/2970).

• I have worked at the Malaga site in Maine (https://mainestatemuseum.org/learn/malaga-island-fragmented-lives-educational-materials/malaga-islands-archaeological-record/).

• I have worked the William Ladd site in Minot, Maine.  William Ladd was the founder of what later became the United Nations. (https://minotmainehistoricalsociety.wordpress.com/minot-history/william-ladd/).

• I have worked under Dr. Laughlin, curator emiritus at the Smithsonian (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/24/science/robert-laughlin-preserver-of-a-mayan-language-dies-at-85.html) helping him to preserve ethnographic records of the Maya.

• I have also worked as an intern at the Smithsonian mapping trees and insects from a survey done in the 1970s.

• I have presented my work on the Swahili people in Kenya at the University of Southern Maine.

• I have presented my work on Shariya Law also at the University of Southern Maine.

• I have written papers on coprolite analysis at Native American archaeological sites in America’s southwest.

• I have written a paper on the use of entheogens amongst globally diverse native peoples.