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MONICA GUERRERO
Project Archaeologist

EDUCATION
M.A., Anthropology, San Diego State University, 2001
B.A., Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1996

EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS

Ms. Monica Guerrero’s experience in the field of Archaeology includes literature reviews, record searches, direction of field crews for survey and testing programs, ceramic analysis, creation of surface collection maps, graphics, and contributing author for various San Diego County reports.

Her recent projects include the test/evaluation report for the Merriam Mountains project and the NCTD Sprinter Rail Line project; inventory, testing, data recovery, and monitoring program for the Otay Mesa Generating Plant project; Carlsbad Water and Sewer Master Plan Backgroun Study and Inventory; BLM Kuchamaa Overview study; Otay Mesa Trunk Sewer Inventory; survey and testing for the Spring Canyon Ranch project; survey and testing for the Star Ranch project; data recovery program for the Carlsbad Municipal Golf Course and Grand Pacific Resorts projects; and, site record inventory for the SDG&E Sunrise Powerlink project. Her laboratory experience includes artifact identification, sorting, and cataloging, and ceramic analyses.

She has assisted with an archaeological field class in Mocollope, Peru, where she provided student field instruction and supervision of field excavation and laboratory analysis. Her work at the Central Coast Information Center included documentation of maps, site forms, and reports, and data entry for both archaeological and historical resources.

As a teaching assistant at San Diego State University, her duties included instruction of field techniques, laboratory analysis, and lower division cultural and physical anthropology courses. She has also served as a collection manager developing skills that included revitalization of artifact collections, identification and re-cataloging of artifacts, entering data into Collection Management's database, and providing public based educational programs to local elementary students.

CONTRIBUTING AUTHOR

2007 Cultural Resource Monitoring Report for the Alta Otay Project, Otay Mesa, California. Prepared for Alta Consultants.

2007 Petrographic Analysis of Ceramic Artifacts from Site BS-1, Borrego Springs, California. Prepared for Professional Archaeological Services.

2007 Cultural Resource Survey for the University Heights Project, San Marcos, California. Prepared for HDR, Inc.

2006 Cultural Resource Survey for the Carlsbad Boulevard Slope and Drainage Improvements Project, Carlsbad, California. Prepared for the City of Carlsbad.

2006 Cultural Resource Survey for the Di Giorgio Project, San Diego County, California. Prepared for MSK Development Group.

2006 Cultural Resource Survey Report for the Lago San Marcos Project, City of San Marcos, California. Prepared for Jevin Investments, Inc.

2005 Historical Resources Report for the Spring Canyon Ranch Project, City of San Diego, California. Prepared for Centex Homes.

2005 Cultural Resource Report for the Merriam Mountains Project, County of San Diego, California. Prepared for Dudek & Associates.

2004 Cultural Resource Survey for the Carlsbad Desalination Plant Project, Carlsbad, California. Prepared for Dudek & Associates.

2 004 Cultural Resource Survey and Boundary Test Report for the Lilac Ranch Project, San Diego County, California. Prepared for Empire Companies.

2003 City of Carlsbad Water and Sewer Master Plans – Cultural Resources Background Study, City of Carlsbad. Prepared for Dudek & Associates.

2003 Cultural Resource Inventory for the Otay Mesa Trunk Sewer Project, San Diego, California. Prepared for PBS&J.

2002 Otay/Kuchamaa Cultural Resource Background Study, San Diego County, California: Prepared as Part of the Otay/Kuchamaa Resource Management Plan. Prepared for USDI Bureau of Land Management.

2001 Data Recovery Program for Pacbell Site CA-SDI-5633, San Marcos, California. Prepared for Joseph Wong Design Associates.

2001 Cultural Resource Test Report for the Oceanside-Escondido Rail Project, Oceanside, California. Prepared for Dudek & Associates.

PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS

2003 New Perspectives on San Diego County Ceramics. Presented to the Annual Southern Data-Sharing Meeting Society, for California Archaeology, San Diego, California.

2001 Hual-Cu-Cuish: A Late Prehistoric Kumeyaay Village Site in the Cuyamaca Rancho State Park, San Diego County, California. Masters Thesis on file at San Diego State University, San Diego, California.

2001 Archaeological Investigations at CA-SDI-945, San Diego County, California, In: Society for California Archaeology, Volume 14, 2001.

2000 Preliminary Archaeological Investigations at Hual-Cu-Cuish (CA-SDI-945), San Diego County, California. Presented at the Thirty-Fourth Annual Meeting,, Society for California Archaeology, Riverside, California.

AFFILIATIONS

Society for California Archaeology, 1997- Present
Register of Professional Archaeologists, 2001- Present
Society of American Archaeology, 2004 - Present