Guess I missed the part where we were encouraged to introduce ourselves, but
since I only know about 100 of the 800+ archaeologists and lurkers on
HISTARCH, I will add my bit. I am a retired staff archaeologist and historian from the
County of San Diego, having worked 24 years in the environmental management
specialist series conducting environmental impact reviews, supervising
consultant surveys and testing from my desk, and field inspecting several thousand
subdivisions, golf courses, water course diversions and dams, grading and mining
operations, restorts, water reclamation projects, formation of water and
special service districts, and I oversaw a library of several thousand archaeology
and history reports we used daily in evaluating project effects, designing
mitigation, and prepared summary reports that I had to explain and take heat from
all levels of management up to the hearing board level. I also managed a
certified local government historic board for four years, consulted with the SHPO,
and managed several Historic Preservation Fund contract cultural resources
surveys. Just to keep my hand in things, I organized the Sierra Club, Audobon
Society, a gaggle of biologists, and the local avocational archaeologists on
field surveys in the Table Mountain survey over a ten year period and a 15-year
dig and on-going weekend lab on a Spanish fort/whaling station/Chinese fishing
camp/U.S. Army post and try to keep up with my report and publication
obligations. I took my first archaeology field school in 1968, first job as field
foreman in 1969, and first job managing State Division of Highways surveys in
1970. I worked in consulting prior to government work and, upon retirement, took a
two year job with the Navy doing historic preservation and wildlife
management work. I have a BA in anthropology, completed graduate work and a thesis
toward a MA in anthropology(blew the graduate foreign language exam), and have a
Graduate Academic Certificate in public history, and have been SOPA/RPA
certified since 1977. I have about fifty publications in archaeology and history, a
number of awards, and the Spanish Order of Merito Civil that I received in 1989
for my work in Spanish historic archaeology in California. I am now president
of Legacy 106, Inc. and get to do the kind of research I always wanted to do
in the past. Check out my website at www.legacy106.com for my current work.

Ron May
Legacy 106, Inc.