CURRICULUM VITAE

Albert M. Pecora, Ph.D., R.P.A 2005

Vital Information

Ohio Valley Archaeological Consultants, Ltd.

4889 Sinclair Road

Suite 210

Columbus, Ohio 43229

Phone: (614) 436-6926

Fax: (614) 436-6945

Email apecora@ovacltd.com

Web www.ovaltd.com

Present Position

1998-present President, Ohio Valley Archaeological Consultants, Ltd

Principal Investigator, Archaeologist

Educational Background

2002 Ph.D. Department of Anthropology

The Ohio State University

1996 M.A., Anthropology Department of Anthropology

The Ohio State University

1989 B.A., Anthropology Department of Anthropology

The Ohio State University

Former Positions

1990-1994 Archaeologist Cultural Resource Analysts, Inc.

Lexington, Kentucky

1988 Field Technician Lithic Analysts, Inc., Pullman Washington

J. J. Flenniken, Principal Investigator

1987-1988 Field Technician Various C.R.M. Firms in Ohio.

1987 Student The Ohio State University Fieldschool

Dr. Richard Yerkes

Specialized Training

The Flintknapping Fieldschool, Directed by Dr. J. J. Flenniken, Lithic Analysts, Inc. Pullman, Washington.

Stone-Tool Use-wear Analysis, Under the direction of Dr. Richard Yerkes, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, The Ohio State University. Columbus.

Professional Organizations

Ohio Archaeological Council

Society for American Archaeology

Register of Professional Archaeologists, RPA

Teaching Appointment Record at The Ohio State University

Position	Quarter	Course/Assignment
Instructor	Summer 1998	Anthropology 201, Intro. to World Prehistory
Instructor	Spring 1998	Anthropology 200, Intro. to Physical Anthropology
Instructor	Winter 1998	Anthropology 200, Intro. to Physical Anthropology
Instructor	Autumn 1997	Anthropology 202, Intro. to Cultural Anthropology
Instructor	Summer 1997	Anthropology 202, Intro. to Cultural Anthropology
Instructor	Spring 1997	Anthropology 200, Intro. to Physical Anthropology
Instructor	Winter 1997	Anthropology 200, Intro. to Physical Anthropology
Assistant	Winter 1996	Anthropology 200, Intro. to Physical Anthropology
Assistant	Spring 1996	Anthropology 597, Culture and Conflict in Developing Nations
Assistant	Autumn 1995	Anthropology 597, Culture and Conflict in Developing Nations

Professional Papers Presented

2001 Biface Complexity and Lithic Transport Stages: An Experimental Flintknapping Perspective on the Formation of Lithic Assemblages. Presented at the Society for American Archaeology, 66th Annual Meeting. New Orleans.

1999 Chipped Stone Tool Production Strategies and Lithic Debris Patterns. Presented at the 64^th Annual meeting, Society for American Anthropology. Symposium: Morphology, Myth and Meaning: New Directions in Lithic Debitage Analysis. Organized and Chaired by William Andrefsky, Washington State University, Pullman.

1996 Logistically Organized Core Technologies: An Early Archaic Example in Southeastern Kentucky. Presented at the 63^rd Annual Meeting of the Eastern States Archeological Federation. Huntington, West Virginia.

1995 Kanawha Black Flint and the Distribution of Archaic Mountaintop Sites in West-Central West Virginia. With Katherine Robinson Mickelson. Presented at the 1995 OAC Conference.

1994 Early Archaic Occupation at the Main Site: Data on the Age and Technological Variability of Bifurcate Projectile Points. With Steven D. Creasman. Paper Presented at the 1994 SEAC/MAC Archaeological Conference. Lexington, Kentucky.

1994 Experimental Use of the “Broad-Bit” Drill from the Early Woodland I Horizon of the Main Site (15BL35), Bell County, Kentucky. Presented at the and at the 11^th Annual Kentucky Heritage Council Archaeological Conference.

1993 Experimental Use of the “Broad-Bit” Drill from the Early Woodland I Horizon of the Main Site (15BL35), Bell County, Kentucky. Presented at the 1993 West Virginia Archaeological Society Annual Meeting.

1992 The Lithic Technology at the Main Site (15BL35), Bell County, Kentucky: A Comparative Analysis. Presented at the First Discovery of America: A Conference on Ohio’s Earliest Inhabitants. Columbus, Ohio.

Archaeological Reports

1998-2005 Over 300 Phase I-III cultural resource management reports in Ohio, West Virginia, Indiana, New York, and Pennsylvania.

1990-1996 Over 100 Phase I archaeological reports in Kentucky, West Virginia, Tennessee and Virginia. For Cultural Resource Analysts, Inc., Lexington, Kentucky and Hurricane, West Virginia.

1995 “Lithic Analysis.” In Phase III Investigations at the Martin Justice Site (15PI92, Pike County, Kentucky. By Jonathan P. Kerr and Steven D. Creasman. Contract Publication Series 95-24. Cultural Resource Analysts, Inc. Lexington, Kentucky.

1994 “Lithic Analysis.” In Salvage Excavation at the Railway Museum Site, Jefferson, County, Kentucky. By C, M. Anslinger. Contract Publication Series 94-xx. Cultural Resource Analysts, Inc. Lexington, Kentucky.

1994 “Lithic Analysis.” In Upper Cumberland Archaic and Woodland Period Archeology at the Main Site (15BL35), Bell County, Kentucky. Appendix D. By Steven D. Creasman. Contract Publication Series 94-56. Cultural Resource Analysts, Inc. Lexington, Kentucky.

1992 A Phase II National Register Evaluation of the Armstrong Creek Bearwallow Site (46FA208) in Fayette County, West Virginia. By Steven D. Creasman and Albert Pecora. Contract Publication Series 92-96. Cultural Resource Analysts, Inc. Lexington, Kentucky.

1992 “Lithic Analysis.” The Winfield Locks Site: A Phase III Excavation in the Lower Kanawha Valley, Putnam, County, West Virginia. By M.A. Hughes, J.P. Kerr and A.M. Pecora. Contract Publication Series 92-81, Cultural Resource Analysts, Inc., Lexington, Kentucky.

1991 “Lithic Analysis.” Late Archaic Archeology of the Lower Kanawha Valley: Excavations at the Corey Site (46PU100), Putnam, County, West Virginia. By M.A. Hughes, J.P. Kerr and A.M. Pecora. Contract Publication Series 91-71, Cultural Resource Analysts, Inc., Lexington, Kentucky.

1990 “Lithic Analysis”, “Chert Source Analysis” (with Dr. R. Yerkes) and “The Introduction of the Bow and Arrow” (with Dr. R. Yerkes). In Late Woodland Archaeology at the Parkline Site (46PU99) Putnam County, West Virginia. Contract Publication Series 90-93. Cultural Resource Analysts, Inc., Lexington, Kentucky.

1990 A Phase II National Register Evaluation of Site 15PI49 on Flatwoods Mountain in Southeastern Pike County, Kentucky. By Jonathan P. Kerr and Albert M. Pecora. Contract Publication Series 90-72, Cultural Resource Analysts, Inc. Lexington, Kentucky.

Published Reports/Papers, Dissertation

2002 The Organization of Chipped Stone Tool Manufacture and the Formation of Lithic Assemblages. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. The Ohio State University.

2001 Chipped Stone tool Production Strategies and Lithic Debitage Patterns. In Lithic Debitage Analysis: Studies in Context, Form, and Meaning. Edited by W. Andrefsky. University of Utah Press.

1996 The Main Site: Radiocarbon and Culture Chronology. By S. D. Creasman, J. P. Kerr, E. A. Bettis and A. M. Pecora. Tennessee Anthropologist 21(2):156-180.

1991 Test Excavations at the Glasgow Site: A Stratified Terminal Early and Late Archaic Site in Kanawha County, West Virginia. C.M. Niquette, A. M. Pecora, R.W. Yerkes and K. J. Saul. West Virginia Archeologist 43(1&2): 27-56.