Teresa Tran Email & Phone Number

San Diego, CA, US

San Diego County, California, United States

• Performed excavations, field collections, and material screening as part of prehistoric site data recovery projects
• Monitored grading, trenching, and other construction work on archaeologically sensitive sites, with experience including work for SDG&E and night work
• Provided photo documentation and in-field tablet data entry as part of digital record-keeping
• Surveyed on a federal installation and in the Great Basin area and conducted shovel probes in the central Cascades
• Washed, sorted, and catalogued artifacts in a laboratory setting

San Diego, California, United States

• Washed and sorted sherds and lithics; sorted shell midden and classified common Southern California marine mollusk species
• Prepared frequency analysis of shell midden from Torrey Pines Natural Reserve
• Prepared isolate records and sketch maps from ArcMap data
• Monitored construction and surveyed trails at Silver Strand Beach and Palomar Mountain

• Digitally and traditionally surveyed and mapped sites on the La Posta Kumeyaay reservation in variable weather under tribal council supervision
• Recorded artifacts and features using hand measurements and photography and created sketches of diagnostic sherds and lithics
• Combined field work and report writing with ethnographic study through pottery-making demonstrations and seminars with Kumeyaay leaders