Anthropological Archaeologist

Over the past 14 years, Ms. Garcia-Herbst has acquired experience in archaeological research, fieldwork, and publication in the American Southwest (California, Arizona, Colorado and Nevada), and Argentina. Ms. Garcia-Herbst earned her M.A. in Anthropology from the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) in 2000. She is currently working on her Ph.D. in Anthropology at UCSB, with a research focus on the flaked stone technology used by foragers during the Mid- to Late Holocene (3124 B.C. to A.D. 1474) in coastal Southern Argentina, and is ABD with an expected graduation in 2009. She has several years of supervisory experience and is able to plan projects, write funding proposals, survey and sample, gather, organize and analyze data, as well as summarize and publish results in print and digital formats. She has special technical expertise in lithic technology, specifically flaked and ground stone analysis, and stone raw material geochemical sourcing using Laser-Ablation Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry. She has received three research grants, totaling $13,600, which has supported her dissertation research projects.

Ms. Garcia-Herbst currently serves as Senior Archaeologist at ASM Affiliates, Inc. In this role, she is charged with the identification, assessment, and data recovery of prehistoric and historical cultural resources for compliance with local, state, and federal environmental requirements. She works closely with and under the direction of ASM project managers, prepares work plans, conducts record searches, organizes travel, supervises field staff, directs fieldwork, and prepares technical reports, graphics and maps.