Ashlyn English

To seek and maintain full-time position utilizing my education in the areas of Anthropology, Archeology, and History and that offers professional challenges utilizing interpersonal skills, excellent time management and problem-solving skills.

I have experience in and with:

• Bio-Archaeology: Experience working with human remains
• Understanding stratigraphy: Ability to understand the relationships between layers of both cultural and natural depositions
• Total station: Able to create maps and plans using a Total Station
• Small hand: Can operate a trowel or similar small hand tool to conduct excavations

tools

• Screening: Ability to use geological and general screens to identify, collect and record small scale finds
• Recording-Excavations: Ability to understand, collect and record all excavation process and data
• Recording sheets: Ability to understand and properly record excavation process, stratigraphy, sections and artifact documentation
• Photography: Ability to take clear images of various feature, artifact & soil colors at various light and field depth conditions
• Large hand tools: Can operate a pickax, hoe or similar large hand tool to conduct excavations
• Drawing plans: Can create site plans using plumb bob and measuring tape
• Artifact washing: Ability to wash different artifact types while maintaining their material characteristics for research purposes
• Artifact recovery: Ability to record, safely excavate and properly storage artifacts and ecofacts made of different types of materials (ceramics, metal, lithics, etc.) and various level of fragility
• Artifact processing: Ability to identify, collect and record a wide range of artifact types, understanding their relative fragility within different site types and conditions
• Artifact classification & seriation: Understand how to assign artifacts to accepted cultural/geological spheres, across space (classification) and across time (seriation)