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ANNA NOAH Ph.D.
Project Archaeologist

EDUCATION
Ph.D. Anthropology, UCLA, 2005
M.A. Anthropology, San Diego State University, 1987
B.A. Anthropology, San Diego State University, 1979


EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS

Dr. Noah’s almost thirty years experience as an archaeologist in southern California includes field studies in coastal, mountain, and desert regions of southern California and on both the northern and southern California Channel Islands.

She has conducted over one hundred archaeological studies for federal, state, and local compliance. These projects include alignment surveys for State Highway 52 from Tierra Santa to Santee, survey and mapping of sites at Drinkwater Lake, Fort Irwin, and prehistoric site excavations at Palomar Airport, Jacumba Airport, San Elijo Lagoon County Park, and Jacumba Park, and in numerous road and public utility corridors.

In addition to extensive involvement in prehistoric archaeology, Dr. Noah served as principal investigator for historic period excavations at the mid-nineteenth century Guajome Ranch House, and has performed National Register evaluations of numerous historic buildings and structures.

Dr. Noah’s work for the County of San Diego resulted in the State Office of Historic Preservation agreement to enter into the first Memorandum of Understanding with a local agency to delegate State responsibilities for HUD-related historic site evaluation to a local authority. As coordinator of a 5 to 14-member environmental unit, Dr. Noah served as project manager for the County of San Diego’s largest and most complex archaeological and environmental studies.

In addition to Dr. Noah’s extensive work in California, she has also performed field studies and conducted zooarchaeological studies at sites in Arizona, Mexico’s Baja California Sur, Peru, British Columbia, and Iceland.

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

Status and Fish Consumption: Inter-Household Variability in a Simple Chiefdom Society on the California Coast. Presencia de la Arqueoichtiología en México, edited by Ana Fabiola Guzmán, Óscar J. Polaco, and Felisa J. Aguilar. Libro de Memorias de la 12a Reunión del Grupo de Trabajo en Restos de Peces del Consejo Internacional para la Arqueozoología, Guadalajara, Jalisco, México, September 4-12, 2003. Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia and Meseo de Paleontología de Guadalajara “Federico A. Solórzano Barreto”, 2003.

Common and Prestige Foods in an Elite Household: An Island Chumash Case (and J. E. Arnold). Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans, 2001.

Early Holocene Coastal-Inland Connections in San Diego County: Evidence from the Windsong Shores Site Faunal Collection. Paper presented at the 35th Annual Meeting of the Society for California Archaeology, Riverside, 2001.

Prehistoric Fishing on the San Diego Coast. Pacific Coast Archaeological Quarterly 34(2):1-31, 1998.

Using Sample Survey Results to Address Regional Research Designs: An Example from Joshua Tree National Park. Proceedings of the Society for California Archaeology 10:60-67. Society for California Archaeology, San Diego, 1997.

Brass, Glass, Stone, and Bone: Items of Adornment from Riverside Chinatown. In Wong Ho Leun, An American Chinatown, Volume 2, edited by the Great Basin Foundation, pp. 395-414. Great Basin Foundation, San Diego, 1987.

AFFILIATIONS

UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Research Associate, 2005
San Diego County Archaeological Society, President Elect, 1996-1998
State of California Preservation Task Force, Archaeology Subcommittee, Governor-appointed member, 1995
International Council for Archaeozoology
Society for American Archaeology
Society for California Archaeology

AWARDS

Chancellor’s Dissertation Year Fellowship, UCLA, 2004-2005
National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant, 2002-2003
Ivor Noel Hume Fellowship for Historical Archaeology, UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, 2002