Benjamin John Hoksbergen 3699 US Highway 72 Paint Rock, Alabama 35764 [email protected] Education: Iowa State
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Benjamin John Hoksbergen 3699 US Highway 72 Paint Rock, Alabama 35764 [email protected] Education: Iowa State University, Ames, IA. 2002-2004 Master of Arts: Anthropology major Thesis: Lithic Raw Material Procurement and Technological Organization in the Upper South Skunk River Valley Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI. 1993-1997 Bachelor of Arts: World History major Archaeology minor Sociology minor Post-graduate classes: Section 106: An Introduction, National Preservation Institute, Sacramento 2006 Archaeological Resource Protection Training Program, Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, Panama City, FL 2008 ArcGIS Desktop I: Getting Started with GIS, ESRI, Birmingham, AL 2009 Contracting Officers Representative Course, US Army Logistics University, Huntsville 2009 Section 106 Agreement Documents, National Preservation Institute, Columbia, SC 2009 Basic Course in Model-Netics, Main Event Management Institute, Redstone Arsenal 2010 Contracting Officer Represe4ntative with a Mission Focus, DAU, Huntsville 2010 Fundamentals of Systems Acquisition Management, DAU, Redstone Arsenal 2010 Cultural Resource Management Experience: 6/11-present Cultural Resource Manager, GS-12, Garrison - Redstone Arsenal, Alabama Responsible for management, planning, and oversight of Redstone Arsenal Cultural Resources Program, preparation and implementation of Redstone Arsenal Integrated Cultural Resources Management Plan (ICRMP), preparation and review of CRM reports and agreement documents, conducting NEPA reviews, oversight of Garrison compliance with various cultural and natural resources laws, acting as Contract Officer's Representative (COR) for CRM projects, consultation with Native American tribes and other stakeholders including other federal agencies, and periodic signatory authority for the Redstone Arsenal Cultural and Natural Resources Branch 7/10-6/11 Cultural Resource Manager, GS-11, Garrison - Redstone Arsenal, Alabama Responsible for management of Redstone Arsenal Cultural Resources Program, preparation and review of CRM reports and agreement documents, NEPA reviews, acting as Contract Officer's Representative for CRM projects, and periodic signatory authority for the Redstone Arsenal Cultural and Natural Resources Branch 5/10-7/10 Cultural Resource Manager, US Army Intern Program, GS-11, Garrison - Redstone Arsenal, Alabama Responsible for management of Redstone Arsenal Cultural Resources Program, preparation and review of CRM reports and agreement documents, NEPA reviews, and acting as Contract Officer's Representative for CRM projects 3/09-5/10 Staff Archaeologist, US Army Intern Program, GS-09, Garrison - Redstone Arsenal, Alabama Responsible for participation in Army Intern Program including training and rotations through various departments, preparation and review of archaeological reports, conducting small-scale archaeological investigations, supervision of contracted archaeological projects, NEPA review of projects for impacts to archaeological resources, and curation of archaeological collections. 9/05-3/09 Contracted Staff Archaeologist, Environmental Management Division, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama through Alexander Archaeological Consultants. Responsible for preparation and review of archaeological reports, conducting small-scale archaeological investigations, supervision of contracted archaeological projects, NEPA review of projects for impacts to archaeological resources, and curation of archaeological collections. 6/05-9/05 Field Supervisor, Alexander Archaeological Consultants, Wildwood, Georgia. Supervisor, author for Phase I and Phase II archaeological investigations 3/02-7/04 Field Supervisor, Tallgrass Historians, Iowa City, Iowa. Supervisor, author for Phase I archaeological surveys (Iowa) 8/02-5/03 Field Technician, Iowa State University Archaeological Laboratory, Ames, Iowa. Phase I surveys (Iowa) 11/01-12/01 Field Supervisor, Leah Rogers Historical Consultant, Iowa City, Iowa. Phase I and Phase II archaeological surveys (Iowa) 8/01-11/01 Field Technician, HDR Engineering, Inc., Minneapolis. Phase I, Phase II, geomorphology (Dubuque Co., Iowa) 1/00-8/01 Field Supervisor, Alexander Archaeological Consultants., Wildwood, Georgia. Supervisor, author for Phase I surveys. Assistant supervisor, joint authorship for Phase II archaeological excavation. (Alabama, Tennessee) 3/99-1/00 Archaeologist II, R. Christopher Goodwin & Associates, Inc., New Orleans. Field crew chief for Phase I, Phase II, laboratory analysis, curation preparation, assistant crew chief for Phase III data recovery (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Ohio, Puerto Rico, Tennessee, Texas) 5/97-3/99 Archaeologist III, R. Christopher Goodwin & Associates, Inc., Frderick, Maryland. Phase I, Phase II, deep testing/geomorphology (Maryland, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico) 5/96-8/96 Square Supervisor, Um el-Jimal field school, Jordan. Teaching Experience: 8/16-9/16 Volunteer Instructor, LearningQUEST Inc., Huntsville, Alabama Set up curriculum and taught course on The Archaeology of North Alabama 8/15-12/15 Lecturer, University of Alabama, Huntsville Set up curriculum, taught, and graded History 312 – Cultural Resource Management, including an archaeological field school on an early 19th century cabin site 9/04-5/05 private ESL tutor, Minami Alps, Japan. 8/03-12/03 Teaching Assistant, Iowa State University Department of Anthropology. Lab instructor for Archaeological Method and Theory course, grader for Introduction to Physical Anthropology and Archaeology and World Cultures courses 3/02-7/02 Historic Reenactor/Guide, Historical Society of Iowa. Edel Blacksmith Shop, Haverhill, Iowa 8/02-5/03 Teaching Assistant, Iowa State University Department of Anthropology. Lab instructor for Archaeological Method and Theory course, grader/reader for Comparative Studies of World Cultures course, lab instructor for Introduction to Biological Anthropology & Archaeology course 6/98-9/98 Area Supervisor/Instructor, Um el-Jimal field school, Jordan. Supervision of excavation and intensive survey/mapping of Late Roman village and surrounding Paleolithic scatters, lithic and ceramic analysis, instructor in archaeological theory and methodology Other Related Experience: 10/95-5/96 Social Research Assistant, Social Research Center, Calvin College. Formatting questionnaires, data entry of survey results. Skills and Interests: Cultural and Natural Resources laws and regulations, archaeological survey, evaluation, and data recovery, geomorphological analysis, technical report authorship, technical drawing/artifact illustration, photography, lithic analysis, ceramic analysis, faunal analysis, historic artifact analysis, GPS data collection, heavy machinery operation, small watercraft operation, metal detector operation, Ground Penetrating Radar operation and data analysis, GIS, curriculum planning, teaching, public outreach, open-water recreational SCUBA certified, blacksmithing, flint-knapping Professional Memberships: Alabama Archaeological Society since 2005 President 2017-present Newsletter Editor 2012-2017 Assistant Newsletter Editor 2010-2012 President, Huntsville Chapter 2011-present Southeastern Archaeological Conference since 2013 Archaeological Conservancy since 2007 Publications: Johnson 2017 Alabama’s Prehistoric Indians and Artifacts. Borgo Publishing, Tuscaloosa, Alabama. (Contributing author) Hoksbergen and Hogan 2013 The Affair at Indian Creek Ford: The Archaeology of a Small Civil War Battle. The Huntsville Historical Review 37(1): 23-68. Little, Johnson, and Hoksbergen 2012 The Widows Creek Phase: A Terminal Woodland Manifestation in the Tennessee Valley of North Alabama. Journal of Alabama Archaeology 58(1,2): 64-77. Hoksbergen 2010 The Oldest Components: The Paleolithic at Umm el-Jimal. Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan,54: 207-216. Hoksbergen 2008 Dalton and Big Sandy: The View from Redstone Arsenal. Journal of Alabama Archaeology 54(1,2): 3-8. Hoksbergen 2008 Archaeological Investigations at 1MA490, a Stratified Dalton and Big Sandy Site on Redstone Arsenal, Madison County, Alabama. Journal of Alabama Archaeology 54(1,2): 9-24. Unpublished Research Papers: Hoksbergen 2004 The Lithic Assemblage from 13LN518, a Late Woodland Base Camp at the Wickiup Hill Outdoor Learning Center, Linn County, Iowa. In Excavations at 13LN518, Wickiup Hill Outdoor Learning Center, Linn County, Iowa. Edited by Leah Rogers, Tallgrass Historians, L.C., Iowa City, IA. Hoksbergen 2004 Lithic Raw Material Procurement and Technological Organization in the Upper South Skunk River Valley. Unpublished M.A. thesis, Department of Anthropology, Iowa State University, Ames. Papers Presented: Hoksbergen 2016 Williams Spring: A Late Middle Woodland Village in Temporal and Regional Context. Presented at the 73rd Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Athens, Georgia. Hoksbergen and Alexander 2015 Preliminary Results from the Data Recovery at the Williams Spring Site, a Late Middle Woodland Village in the Middle Tennessee Valley. Presented at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Nashville, Tennessee. Hoksbergen 2015 Illuminating a Landscape of Ghosts: Eight Decades of Federal Archaeology on Redstone Arsenal. Presented at the 2015 Southeast Association for Living History, Farm, and Agricultural Museum Conference, Huntsville, Alabama. Hoksbergen 2014 The Affair at Indian Creek Ford: Reconciling Archival Data and the Archaeological Record in the Survey of a Small Civil War Battlefield. Presented