Doctoral Committee

Dr. Michael Jochim, Chair; Professor, UCSB
Dr. Barbara Voorhies, Member; Chair, UCSB
Dr. Michael Glassow, Member, Professor, UCSB
Dr. Mark Aldenderfer, Member; Professor, UA
Dr. José Luis Lanata, Member; Professor, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina

Experience

2008-2010 | Agencia Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnológicas de Argentina Grant: "Arqueología de lugares persistentes: La ocupación del Área de Paso Roballos y Monte Zeballos-Los Antiguos (Santa Cruz)", PICT 2006-00668.
Geochemical Sourcing Analyst

Analysis of chipped stone artifacts and raw material source samples from Patagonia using Laser-Ablation Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS).

December 2006 - Present | The Paleoindian Database of the Americas, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Co-Director

Assist in the development, management and analysis of the Latin American portion of the database.

July 2006 - Present | ASM Affiliates, Inc., Carlsbad, CA
Senior Archaeologist

Duties include the identification, assessment, and data recovery of prehistoric and historical cultural resources for compliance with local, state, and federal environmental requirements. Work closely with and under the direction of ASM principal investigators, conduct record searches, supervise field staff, organize travel, direct fieldwork, and prepare technical reports, graphics and maps.

2006 - 2007 | Wenner Gren Foundation International Collaborative Research Grant: "High Latitude Hunter Gatherers North and South: Variation and Adaptation in the Patagonian and Great Basin Holocene," University of Akron.
Geochemical Sourcing Analyst and GIS Technician

Analysis of chipped stone artifacts and raw material source samples from Patagonia and the Great Basin using Laser-Ablation Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS). Collection and processing of data generated using Trimble GPSs to create maps using Geographic Information System (GIS) software.

2006 - 2008 | National Science Foundation: "Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Explaining Ancient Technological Innovation in Southern Argentina," #0554890, Dept. of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara
Co-Principle Investigator

Planning and writing doctoral dissertation research proposal to conduct archaeological survey and excavation in Southern Argentina as part of the "Paisajes Arqueológicos en el Paralelo 49" project directed by Co-Principle Investigator, Dr. José Luis Lanata (University of Buenos Aires). Field supervision and training of Argentine undergraduate students in pedestrian survey and subsurface testing of Mid to Late Holocene Period prehistoric hunter-gatherer archaeological sites in the Bahía San Julián area of Southern Argentina. Analysis of chipped stone artifacts and obsidian and other raw material sourcing analysis using Laser-Ablation Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS). Data acquisition using a Global Positioning System (GPS), data registration, and database management using raster and vector models, as well as data modelling and spatial analysis of digital geographic information from physical and archaeological sources using standard Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software. Training Argentine undergraduate students in the use of GIS software and data analysis.

July 2004 - September 2004 | Heritage Resources, Los Padres National Forest, Santa Barbara, CA
Field and Mapping Technician

Hired under the Student Temporary Employment Program (STEP) to work on the Ojai Ranger District 2004 Focus Trails Project. My responsibilities included the following: digitize cultural resource survey coverage and site areas using GIS software; create maps using both TOPO! and GIS for use in Heritage Resource Reports; write Heritage Resource Protection Measures recommendations (Programmatic Agreement Responses).

June 2001 - June 2006 | UCSB Letters and Science Information Technology, Santa Barbara, CA
Web Services Student Assistant

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My responsibilities included using Macromedia Studio MX to develop new or organize existing written documentation about LSIT's email, web and file share services, as well as web editing software; applying requests for documentation updates; PHP/XHTML/CSS coding and validation; ADA compliance; and providing solutions for Help Desk questions regarding online forums (phpBB). My duties have also included addressing how easily people can move around websites we've redesigned (interface issues), modifying and updating MySQL databases, one-on-one Macromedia Dreamweaver 3, 4, and MX training of and/or troubleshooting for faculty and staff; providing technical assistance at large-scale technology training sessions, such as UCSB's Faculty Institute on Teaching with Technology; and assisting with evaluation and/or setup of web service systems (e.g., Moodle CMS, Yaapi CMS, Lore Knowledgebase, JOOMLA CMS).

September 2000 - October 2000 | University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
Field Supervisor

Supervision of excavation personnel and management of data using GIS software and other digital technologies for Dr. Mark Aldenderfer's Ch'amak Pacha Archaeological Research project involving excavation at the Jiskairumoko Site, Peru (Late Archaic to Early Formative Periods). Team member of a field crew carrying out geophysical survey for this project and Elizabeth Klarich's Pukara Domestic Architecture Research Project.

September 1999 - December 2001 | University of California, Dept. of Anthropology, Santa Barbara, CA
Teaching Assistant and Reader

Responsible for attending the assigned course lectures and having good command of the reading material; attending weekly TA meetings; the conduct of recitation, laboratory or quiz section meetings; holding regularly scheduled office hours; helping students choose paper topics and locate source materials; writing questions for midterm and final examinations; reading student papers, homework, and examinations; and handling all of the administrative tasks related to the assignment of course grades, including grading papers and exams, adding scores, entering course grades in computer files, and completing the bubble-sheet grade report forms at the end of the quarter. In addition to these duties, as a Head Teaching Assistant for Anth 3, I was responsible for planning the material to be covered by the other Teaching Assistants in the following week's sections and other course-related logistical activities.

Courses:

• Fall 2001 Teaching Assistant for Anth 5 Introductory Physical Anthropology - Instructor: Don Symons
• Spring 2001 Teaching Assistant for Anth 153T Primate Behavioral Ecology - Instructor: John Tooby
• Winter 2001 Teaching Assistant for Anth 170 Anthropological Approaches to Law - Instructor: Eve Darian-Smith
• Summer 2000 Reader for Anth 2 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology - Instructor: David Crawford
• Winter 2000 Head Teaching Assistant for Anth 3 Introduction to Archaeology - Instructor: Brian M. Fagan
• Fall 1999 Teaching Assistant for Anth 120 Production and Reproduction - Instructor: A. F. Robertson

August 1999 | University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
Field Supervisor

Supervision and training of University Research Expeditions Program (UREP) volunteers and management of data for Dr. Michael Jochim's archaeological project involving survey and testing of Paleolithic through Neolithic Period sites in Southern Germany.

June 1998 - September 1998 | Desert Archaeology, Inc., Tucson, AZ
Field Technician

Member of Michael Lindeman and Dr. Jonathan Mabry's field crew carrying out excavations at the Sunset Mesa site (Hohokam period), and the Las Capas site (Early Agricultural Period).

June 1997 - August 1997 | Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Field Technician & Intern

Member of Dr. Margaret Jodry's field crew carrying out testing at the Black Mountain site (Folsom Period) in Colorado for the Paleoindian Program, Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History.

September 1996 - March 1997 | Desert Archaeology, Inc., Tucson, AZ
Data Entry Technician

Research Assistant to Dr. Jonathan Mabry. Maintaining a database of all the Paleo-Indian and Archaic period sites in Arizona, through data entry and quality control of archaeological site card information from the Arizona State Site File, various museums, educational institutions, and National Park Service offices in Arizona into a Microsoft FoxPro database.

June 1995 - January 1997 | Arizona State Museum, Tucson, AZ
Field Supervisor and Laboratory Technician

Supervision and instruction of Earthwatch volunteers for Dr. Charles E. Adams's Homol'ovi Research Program involving excavation of a courtyard in June 1995, and a kiva in July-August 1996 at the Homol'ovi I (Anasazi Period) site at the Homol'ovi Ruins State Park in Winslow, Arizona. Laboratory analysis and documentation of the design, manufacture, and use(s) of ground stone artifacts from the Homol'ovi II (Anasazi Period) site between September 1996 and January 1997 at the Arizona State Museum in Tucson, Arizona.

August 1994 - November 1995 | Arizona State Museum, Tucson, AZ
Data Entry Technician

Student Employee at the Arizona Archaeological Site and Survey Database, Arizona State Museum. General site file data entry and quality control, requiring skill in working with USGS topographic maps and archaeological site archives.

May 1994 - June 1998 | Arizona State Museum, Tucson, AZ
Curatorial Assistant/Technician

Curatorial Technician (student employee from May to August 1994, then from April 1995 to December 1996), then Curatorial Assistant (staff employee from January 1997 to June 1998) at the Central Arizona Project Repository, Arizona State Museum. Preparation and processing of prehistoric and historic archaeological collections for permanent storage according to federal curatorial standards; maintaining the repository collections database through cataloguing; computerization of collection documentation; collecting, reviewing, organizing, and completing collection documentation; specialized archival research; inventorying project field and publication maps; and assisting in researchers' access and use of collections.

September 1993 - August 1994 | Arizona State Museum, Tucson, AZ
Field Technician/Laboratory Technician

Member of James Bayman's field research team carrying out excavations at a domestic refuse midden at the Marana Platform Mound Community (Hohokam Period) as part of his doctoral dissertation project. Laboratory processing and preliminary analysis of artifacts, processing of macrobotanical flotation remains, and maintaining a collection database through data entry.

Publications

Garcia-Herbst, Arleen
2008 Archaeological Survey of the proposed Silverwood Lake Cell Tower Site, Mountaintop District, San Bernardino National Forest, San Bernardino County, California. ASM Affiliates, Inc. Submitted to Merkel and Associates, Inc.

Garcia-Herbst, Arleen
2008 Addendum to the "Cultural Resources Study for the Proposed Tecolote Canyon Long-term Maintenance and Access Project and the Proposed Tecolote Canyon Wetland Mitigation Project". ASM Affiliates, Inc. Submitted to David Evans and Associates.

Garcia-Herbst, Arleen and Susan M. Hector
2008 Summary Report on the Results of a Cultural Resources Survey of Nate Harrison Road, Boucher Road, and the spur road from Doane Valley Road to the Baptist Camp, Palomar Mountain State Park, San Diego County, California. ASM Affiliates, Inc. Submitted to USDA, Natural Resources Conservation Service.

Becker, Mark and Arleen Garcia-Herbst
2008 A Cultural Resources Survey Using the Archaeological Resources Report Form (Appendix D) for the Veterans Village of San Diego Project, San Diego, California. ASM Affiliates, Inc. Submitted to Veterans Village of San Diego.

Schaefer, Jerry and Arleen Garcia-Herbst
2008 Letter Report regarding the Archaeological Study for the AAC Road Reconnaissance Project, Imperial County, California. ASM Affiliates, Inc. Submitted to USDI, Bureau of Reclamation.

Becker, Mark S., Arleen Garcia-Herbst, and David R. Iversen
2008 An Archaeological Survey of 3,500 Acres in the Horno/Ammo Burn Areas, Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, San Diego County, California. ASM Affiliates, Inc. Submitted to NAVFAC SW.

Garcia-Herbst, Arleen E.
2008 Report on Archaeological Monitoring of Site CA-SDI-5017, the Village of La Rinconada de Jamo, during the Gas Line Replacement Project at Admiral Hartman Family Housing, City of San Diego, San Diego County, California. ASM Affiliates, Inc. Submitted to Lincoln Military Family Housing.

Garcia-Herbst, Arleen and Micah Hale
2008 Final Report for Concord Inland BRAC Disposal Archaeological Survey, Naval Weapons Station, Seal Beach, Detachment Concord, Contra Costa County, California. ASM Affiliates, Inc. Submitted to NAVFAC SW.

Garcia-Herbst, Arleen E.
2007 Letter Report regarding the Class III Archaeological Survey for the Gila River Flood Control Project, Yuma, Yuma County, Arizona. ASM Affiliates, Inc. Submitted to U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Yuma Area Office.

Garcia-Herbst, Arleen and Micah Hale
2007 Final Work Plan for Concord Inland BRAC Disposal Archaeological Survey, Naval Weapons Station, Seal Beach, Detachment Concord, Contra Costa County, California. ASM Affiliates, Inc. Submitted to NAVFAC SW.

García-Herbst, Arleen E., Hector Neff, José Luis Lanata, Luis Garcia Albarido, and Charles R. Stern
2008 Laser ablation ICP-MS analysis of black obsidian nodules from Pampa del Asador and archaeological samples from southernmost Patagonia. In Arqueología de Fuego-Patagonia. Levantando piedras, desenterrando huesos... y develando arcanos, edited by Flavia Morello, Mateo Martinic, Alfredo Prieto and Gabriel Bahamonde, pp. 235-246. Fundación CEQUA, Punta Arenas, Chile.

García-Herbst, Arleen E.
2007 An Archaeological Evaluation of the Siempre Viva Industrial Park, City of San Diego, San Diego County, California. ASM Affiliates, Inc. Submitted to Kearny Real Estate Company.

García-Herbst, Arleen E.
2007 Review of Tafonomía Regional y Estudios Arqueofaunísticos de Cetáceos en Tierra del Fuego y Patagonia Meridional, by Florencia Borella. Latin American Antiquity 18(1):118-119.

Hector, Susan, and Arleen E. Garcia-Herbst
2006 Determination of Effect on Historic Properties from Phase II Conveyance of Murphy Canyon, Gateway, and Admiral Hartman Family Housing. ASM Affiliates, Inc. Submitted to Lincoln Military Family Housing.

Lanata, José Luis; Silvana Buscaglia; Marcelo Cardillo; Sebastián Luis Frete; María Marschoff; Arleen García; George Herbst; Victoria Nuviala; and Clara Otaola
2004 Cazadores recolectores en Puerto San Julián, Santa Cruz. Primeros resultados. In Contra viento y marea. Arqueologia de Patagonia, compiled by María Teresa Civalero, Pablo Marcelo Fernández and Ana Gabriela Guráib, pp. 745-754. Instituto Nacional de Antropologia Pensamiento Latinoamericano, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Presentations

Lanata, José Luis, Arleen Garcia-Herbst, Luis Garcia Albarido, Cristian Crespo, Natalia Cirigliano, and Ivana Ozán
2008 Cazadores recolectores en Bahía San Julián, Santa Cruz. Paper presented at the VII Jornadas de Arqueología de la Patagonia, Ushuaia, Argentina (21-25 April).

Garcia-Herbst, Arleen
2008 Conservation of a Significant Prehistoric Archaeological Site in Urban San Diego. Paper presented at the 42nd annual meeting of the Society for California Archaeology, Burbank (17-20 April).

Anderson, David G., José Luis Lanata, J. Christopher Gillam, and Arleen Garcia-Herbst
2008 Modeling Paleoindian Sites and Assemblages: PIDBA (Paleoindian Database of the Americas) and Other Approaches. Session organized at 73rd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver (26-30 March).

García-Herbst, Arleen E., Don Laylander, Sherri Andrews, and Alice Brewster
2007 Archaeological Reconstruction of Ancient Lake Cahuilla Settlement Patterns Using GIS. Paper presented at the 27th Annual ESRI International User Conference, San Diego (18-22 June).

García-Herbst, Arleen E., Charles R. Stern, Hector Neff, José Luis Lanata, Luis Garcia Albarido, Ana M. Albornoz, Eduardo A. Crivelli Montero, Mabel Fernández, Adam Hajduk, Alberto E. Pérez, Lisandro G. López, Isabel Pereda, Alicia H. Tapia and John Dudgeon
2007 Laser ablation TOF-ICP-MS analysis of obsidian nodules from obsidian sources and archaeological samples from the southern pampas and northern patagonia. Paper presented at 72nd annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Austin (25-29 April).

Lanata, José Luis, and Arleen E. García-Herbst
2007 Exploring the tempo and mode of America’s human dispersal. Paper presented at 72nd annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Austin (25-29 April).

García-Herbst, Arleen E., and Michael Garnsey
2007 Recent archaeological investigation at Border Fields State Park: a brief report on 5,000 years of unchanged history. Paper presented at the 41st annual meeting of the Society for California Archaeology, San Jose (22-25 March).

Lanata, José Luis, Luis Martino, Ana Osella and Arleen Garcia-Herbst
2006 Ambiente y Demografía Durante la Dispersión Humana Inicial en Sudamérica. Paper presented at the IV annual meeting of the Congreso de Arqueología en Colombia, Pereira (5-7 December).

García-Herbst, Arleen E., and José Luis Lanata
2006 Explaining Ancient Technological Innovation in coastal Southern Argentina. Paper presented at the 71st annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Juan, Puerto Rico (26-30 April).

García-Herbst, Arleen E., Hector Neff, José Luis Lanata, Luis Garcia Albarido, and Charles R. Stern
2005 Laser ablation ICP-MS analysis of black obsidian nodules from Pampa del Asador and archaeological samples from southernmost Patagonia. Paper presented at the VI Jornadas de Arqueología de la Patagonia, Magallanes, Chile (24-28 October).

Lanata, José Luis, and Arleen E. García
2005 Environmental corridors and early human dispersal in South America. Paper presented at the 70th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Salt Lake City (30 March-3 April).

Garcia, Arleen E.
2004 Late Holocene coastal hunter-gatherers in Southern Argentina. Paper presented at the "Ancient Sites, Modern Maps: Remote Sensing Applications in Archaeology" workshop, Geographic Information Science Center and the Archaeological Research Facility at UC Berkeley (29-30 October, www.gisc.berkeley.edu).

García, Arleen E.
2004 Becoming Involved in Anthropology through the National Association for Student Anthropologists (NASA) and the American Anthropological Association (AAA). Paper presented at the 1st annual meeting of the California Undergraduate Anthropology Conference, Santa Barbara (15-16 May).

Lanata, José Luis, and Arleen E. García
2002 Metapopulations and the Colonization of Space. Paper presented at Human Global Dispersal, British Academy International Networks Workshop, Southampton, UK (27-28 June).

Lanata, José Luis; Silvana Buscaglia; Marcelo Cardillo; Sebastián Luis Frete; María Marschoff; Arleen García; George Herbst; Victoria Nuviala; and Clara Otaola
2002 Cazadores recolectores en Puerto San Julián, Santa Cruz. Primeros resultados. Paper presented at the V Jornadas de Arqueología de la Patagonia, Buenos Aires, Argentina (27-31 May).

Craig, Nathan, Elizabeth Klarich, George Herbst, Nicolas Tripcevich, and Arleen E. García
2001 Organizing archaeological geophysical survey and surface mapping data in ArcView. Paper presented at the Twenty-First Annual ESRI International User Conference, San Diego (9-13 July).

García, Arleen E.
2001 Travels and Archaeology in South Chile and Argentina. Paper presented at the UCSB Anthropology Brown Bag Talk Series, Santa Barbara (4 June).

Lanata, José Luis, and Arleen E. García
2001 Population Dynamic and the Peopling of the Americas. Paper presented at the 66th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans (18-22 April).

García, Arleen E.
1998 Ground Stone Artifacts Associated with Paleoindian Sites: The Lindenmeier Site, A Case Study. Poster presented at the 63rd annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Seattle.

Grants, Fellowships, Awards

• 2006 Albert Spaulding Fellowship, UCSB Anthropology Dept. $3000.
• 2006 National Science Foundation: "Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Explaining Ancient Technological Innovation in Southern Argentina", #0554890, $10,911.
• 2004-2005 Graduate Research Mentorship Program Fellowship, Graduate Division, UCSB. $15,000 stipend plus fees and health insurance.
• 2002 Pre-Dissertation Field Site Visit Travel Grant, UCSB Anthropology Dept. $1200.
• 2000 Pre-Dissertation Field Site Visit Travel Grant, UCSB Anthropology Dept. $1500.
• 1997 Smithsonian Institution, Office of Fellowships and Grants, 10-week Minority Internship. $4,000 plus travel allowance.
• 1996 Dean's Honorable Mention List, UA.
• 1996 Prix de L'Alliance Française (4th prize), UA.
• 1996 Latino/Latina Leadership Opportunity Program Scholar, UA.
• 1995 Dean's Honorable Mention List, UA.
• 1994 Byron Cummings Scholarship, UA Anthropology Dept. $250.
• 1994 Dean's Honorable Mention List, UA.
• 1994 National Hispanic Scholarship Fund Scholar. $1000.

Service

• 2006-2007 Student Representative, Society for Anthropological Sciences
• 2004-2005 Graduate Student Association Representative, UCSB Committee on Undergraduate Academic Programs and Policy (CUAPP), Academic Senate
• 2004-2006 Web Editor and Web Development Committee Chair, National Association of Student Anthropologists (NASA)
• 2002-2004 Graduate Student Association Representative, UCSB Information Technology Board
• 2002-present Article and Book Peer Reviewer, Latin American Antiquity
• 2001-2002 Co-Coordinator, UCSB Anthropology Brown Bag Talk Series
• 1998-1999 Newsletter Editor, UCSB Anthropology Graduate Students Association

Professional Associations

• Society for American Archaeology, Member
• Sociedad Argentina de Antropología, Member
• Society for California Archaeology, Member
• Lambda Alpha National Honor Society for Anthropology, Member

Languages

English (fluent), Spanish (fluent), and French.