Robert J. Stokes, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Eastern New Mexico University Director of the Agency for Conservation Archaeology, Eastern New Mexico University Contact Information Department of Anthropology and Applied Archaeology, ENMU Sta. 53, 1500 S Avenue K, Portales, NM 88130 602-615-2822 (cell); 575-562-2696 (office) [email protected] Professional Background Education Dr. Stokes has 30 years of archaeological experience, including 28 years of . Ph.D., Anthropology, experience in the Southwest. He has managed and participated in projects University of Oklahoma, across all of New Mexico, Arizona, and Oklahoma, and in west Texas; Norman, 2003; Dissertation: participated in numerous projects on the Apache-Sitgreaves, Cibola, Coconino, Aspects of Land Tenure in an Coronado, Gila, Lincoln, and Tonto National Forests in Arizona and New Ancient Southwestern Mexico and from previous employment with the US Forest Service; and Farming Society in the worked on projects in North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and North Dakota. Mimbres Valley, New Mexico His various projects focused primarily on the Mogollon, Salado, and Hohokam . M.A., with honors, cultures of the Southwest, and the Southern Plains culture area of Oklahoma, Anthropology, Eastern New but he also maintains an active interest in protohistoric and historic Mexico University, Portales, archaeology, including the Spanish Colonial period. His research interests 1995; Thesis: Prehistoric include settlement pattern studies, communities and households, and cultural Settlement Patterns in the interactions along boundaries. He is currently an anthropology assistant Sapillo Creek Valley, Gila professor at Eastern New Mexico University in Portales, and teaches National Forest, New Mexico undergraduate and graduate level classes, in addition to conducting field and . B.A. magna cum laude, laboratory research projects. He also serves as the Director of the Agency for Anthropology, University of Conservation Archaeology. As a former New Mexico State Parks Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, archaeologist, he was responsible for cultural compliance at Parks across New 1990 Mexico and covering all cultural time periods. From 2017-2018, Dr. Stokes served as the Tribal Liaison for the Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Memberships Department (EMNRD). Previously as a cultural principal investigator with . Society for American private firms, he was responsible for proposal writing, budgeting, and Archaeology overseeing all aspects of projects for various federal, state, county, and . Arizona Archaeological and municipal agencies, in addition to various private entities and organizations. Historical Society As a former adjunct at Mesa Community College near Phoenix, Dr. Stokes . New Mexico Site Watch taught evening classes on New and Old World archaeology between 2004 and 2014, and has presented professional research papers at Society for American Teaching Experience Archaeology and Mogollon and Jornada Mogollon Archaeology conferences. Assistant Professor, Eastern New Mexico University, Current Position: Assistant Professor and Director of Agency Portales, 2018-present for Conservation Archaeology, Eastern New Mexico . Adjunct Faculty, Mesa University, Portales Community College, Mesa, Dr. Stokes began his current position as assistant professor in the Anthropology Arizona, 2004–2014 Department and as Director of the Agency for Conservation Archaeology at . Graduate Teaching Position, Eastern New Mexico University in August 2018. He teaches a full load of University of Oklahoma, undergraduate and Master’s level graduate classes in the Department of Norman, 1998–1999 Anthropology, focusing on archaeological theory, prehistory of the Southwest, human geography, ceramic analysis, and research foundations classes, in addition to specialized topics such as historic archaeology and cultural resource Analysis Experience management classes. His continuing research focuses on the southern . Ceramic, lithic, groundstone, American Southwest, primarily the ancient Mimbres and Jornada Mogollon adobe, special artifacts, cultures, but also maintains research interests in lower Rio Grande mobile historic, glass beads cultures, the Spanish Colonial Period, and Euroamerican historic archaeology and land use. His research interest foci include settlement pattern and landscape analysis, community and household interactions, boundary maintenance and conflict, and ceramic analysis. 1 Other Work Experience: Principal Investigator Responsibilities at ACS, Ltd., Tempe, AZ and Tierra Right-of-Way Services, Tucson, AZ: 2000–2014 While serving first as Senior Project Manager and then Principal Investigator for private contracting firms in Arizona, Dr. Stokes was responsible for all aspects of managing as-needed, on-call cultural resource compliance contracts with federal and state clients. He oversaw field work associated with these contracts and ensured the work and final technical reports met the high standards required of the contracting companies and the agencies. He also oversaw single project contracts with a variety of governmental, local, and private entities and companies throughout Arizona. Major Contracts: Southwest Gas and Century Link: Cultural Services On-call (2013–2014). Dr. Stokes was responsible for supervising and managing on-call projects for Southwest Gas and Century Link while at Tierra Right-of-Way Services in Tucson. Duties included maintaining communications with these private companies, responding to task orders and preparing scopes and budgets, assigning personnel to projects, managing the budget and crew hours, and reviewing and submitting technical reports to the clients and SHPO and Pima County. Most projects were small surveys, although several required monitoring, documenting large Hohokam sites, and limited testing. U.S. Bureau of Reclamation: Cultural Services On-call (2005–2013). Dr. Stokes was responsible for supervising and managing on-call projects for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation while at ACS, Ltd. He had been involved with Reclamation projects since 2005, first as Project Director for excavations on the San Xavier District, Tohono O’odham Nation for the Farm Rehabilitation Project, followed by Class III surveys at Martinez Ranch and Coon Bluff. At the beginning of 2010, Dr. Stokes assumed the role of on-call supervisor and oversaw Class III surveys and excavations at Lake Pleasant rockshelter and Ashurst-Hayden Dam prehistoric sites, site relocation and reevaluation at Lake Pleasant and the CAP Tucson Aqueduct, and Class I and III surveys of the San Carlos Irrigation and Drainage District. Dr. Stokes oversaw all aspects of budget preparation, fieldwork implementation, report preparation, and coordination. Arizona Public Service Company: Cultural Services On-call (2006–2013). Dr. Stokes served as Principal Investigator for this contract while at ACS, Ltd. The projects typically involve Class I and III research for permit renewals and new line and substation builds, and data recovery projects, such as the Morgan 500kV power line. Maricopa County Department of Transportation and the Parks and Recreation Department: Cultural Services On-calls (2006–2013). Dr. Stokes served as the Principal Investigator for these contracts while at ACS, Ltd. Projects with MCDOT included road and bridge construction, including Class I and III research, testing, and data recovery. For Parks, projects included trail surveys across the park system. Dr. Stokes directly supervised all aspects of budget preparation, fieldwork, reporting, and coordination. Specific Projects: . Principal Investigator for preparing monitoring and burial discovery work plans for Santa Rita Mountains mine site, Tucson, Pima County, AZ; Rosemont Mining Company (2014) . Principal Investigator for synthesizing and preparing site reassessment archives at Walnut Canyon and Wupatki National Monuments, Coconino County, AZ; National Park Service (2014) . Principal Investigator for Class I records overview and survey for installation of buried gas lines for SW Gas in Tucson and Oro Valley, Pima County, AZ (2013–2014) . Principal Investigator for Class I records overview and surveys for intersection and road right-of-way installation of fiber optic lines for Century Link, Tucson area, Pima County, AZ (2013–2014) . Principal Investigator for Class I records overview of 11,500 total acres for a proposed development near Coolidge and Eloy, Pinal County, AZ (2013) . Principal Investigator for uploading all ACS Reclamation documents and reports onto tDAR (the Digital Access Records), maintained by Arizona State University (2013) . Principal Investigator for Class I overview and Class III survey of SR 83 at Canelo, Coronado National Forest, Cochise County, AZ; AZ Dept. of Transportation (ADOT) (2012–2013) . Principal Investigator for Class III survey of the proposed alignment of Northern Parkway, Northwest Phoenix; MCDOT and ADOT (2012). Principal Investigator for construction monitoring at two Hohokam sites along McDowell Road on the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, AZ; MCDOT (2012). Principal Investigator for Oversight for the Class III survey of over 7,000 acres in the Holbrook Basin for a proposed potash mining project in Navajo County, AZ; Tetra Tech, Inc. (2012) . Principal Investigator for Class I (Phase I) records review for the Tioga and New Ramberg Stations, North Dakota; GES and Tesoro Pipeline Co. (2012) 2 . Principal Investigator for Class III survey of an APS power line access road on the Coconino National Forest