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What's New at the ASC... Projects Archaeological Commentary from Michel Newland as told to Perspectives, KQED Public Radio Heinlenville and Nihonmachi Archaeology of Early Chinese & Japanese San José Publications Before Warm Springs Dam: A History of the Lake Sonoma Area Historical Archaeology of an Overseas Chinese Community in Sacramento, California Jack London's Historic Beauty Ranch: Buildings, Landscapes, Sites Utility and Beauty Should Be One:” The Landscape of Jack London’s Ranch of Good Intentions

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The Anthropological Studies Center has been helping private companies and government agency clients with archaeological sites, Native American concerns, and historic buildings since 1974. Our staff’s intimate working knowledge of state and federal regulations coupled with solid scholarly research earned ASC the American Society of Civil Engineers 1999 Award of Merit as well as the Governor’s Award for Historic Preservation; in 2003 ASC’s director received the Society for California Archaeology’s Thomas F. King Award in Cultural Resources Management.

ASC is led by Dr. Adrian Praetzellis, a practicing archaeologist with over 25 years experience. The organization’s large staff is managed by Mary Praetzellis, M.A., who is also a Registered Historian. Jan Coulter, C.P.A., manages ASC’s business office.

ASC has a core staff of 18 full-time and 15 part-time employees, including 9 Registered Professional Archaeologists and a Registered Professional Historian, among whom are historical and prehistoric archaeologists, an oral historian, a staff editor, an archaeological laboratory manager, field and lab technicians, as well as report production, computer graphics, and GIS specialists.

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