Richard Mason Niquette CV

EDUCATION

Graduated Magna Cum Laude from The University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee

Research Internship with Dr. Sarah Sherwood, 2012 Teaching assistant with Dr. Sarah Sherwood, 2014

Current M.A. student at the University of Kansas

WORK EXPERIENCE

University of Kansas (August 2017 – present)

August 2017 – Present. Graduate Research Assistant. Organizing 52,000 ceramic artifacts and updating the inventory from the Talking Crow site (39BF3) from 1950, 1951, and 1952.

Odyssey Archaeological Research Fund (June 2016 – July 2017)

June 2017 – July 2017. Crew Chief. Assisted in leading field excavations and organized equipment at the Spring Valley site (23CT389).

September 2016 – June 2017. Technical Research Assistant. Assisted in organizing Odyssey collections and archival materials.

June – July 2016. Field Technician. Assisted excavations at the Two Rivers Site (23SH101) in Shannon County, Missouri, as well as at the Scheuerman Mammoth Site (14SC327) in Scott City, Kansas.

Statistical Research Inc., Tucson, Arizona (August 2014 – May 2016)

March 2016 – May 2016. Crew Chief. Contributed to draft report titled “Barry M. Goldwater Range East, Range Wide Survey, Pima and Maricopa County, Arizona.” SRI Project Number 14LK01.

January 2016 – March 2016. Crew Chief. Inventory Survey for the US Army conducted on Fort Bliss. Otero County, New Mexico and El Paso County, Texas. SRI Project Numbers 15MM01, 15 MM02, 15MM03, 15MM04, and 15MM05. Conducted pedestrian survey in 5 separate project areas in New Mexico and Texas for the United States Army.

September 2015 – January 2016. Crew Chief. Inventory Survey for the Marine Corps conducted within the Barry M. Goldwater Range West. Yuma County, Arizona. SRI Project Number 14NV16. Conducted inventory survey over 27,000 acres.

August-September 2015. Crew Chief. Manned Range 1 Emergency Road Repair. Content and extent testing of site AZ Z:5:68 on the Barry M. Goldwater Range East for Luke Air Force Base. Maricopa County, Arizona. SRI Project Number 10LK25.

June-July 2015. Crew Chief. Phase I excavations on five sites in the Barry M. Goldwater Range East. Maricopa County, Arizona. SRI Project Number 10LK21.

May-June 2015. Crew Chief. Wrote site descriptions for final report for SRI Project Number 10LK22. Final report titled “Rankin Valley: Intensive Archaeological Survey of 495 Acres in the Sauceda Mountains, Barry M. Goldwater Range East, Arizona.”

April-May 2015. Crew Chief. Inventory Survey for the US Air Force within the Barry M. Goldwater Range East. Maricopa County, Arizona. SRI Project Number 10LK22.

March-April 2015. Crew Chief. Contributed to draft report titled “Barry M. Goldwater Range East, Range Wide Survey, Pima and Maricopa County, Arizona.” SRI Project Number 14LK01.

March 2015. Lab Technician. Inventoried, sampled, and processed material from two sites in California, Fallbrook and Seal Beach Sites, and ran float samples for the same sites.

February 2015. Crew Chief. BLM Line 4000 Anomaly Survey. San Bernandino County, California. Conducted road survey over 26 miles recording isolates and sites.

January-February 2015 Crew Chief. Inventory Survey for the US Air Force conducted within the Barry M. Goldwater Range East. Maricopa and Yuma Counties, Arizona. SRI Project Number 14LK01.

January 2015. Crew Chief. Manned Range 1 Emergency Road Repair (Limited testing of AZ Z:5:68 on the Barry M. Goldwater Range East), Maricopa County, Arizona. Luke Air Force Base. SRI Project Number 10LK25.

November-December 2014. Crew Chief. BLM/REDA Survey. Maricopa County, Arizona. SRI Project Number 14BLM01.

October-November 2014. Crew Chief. Inventory Survey for the US Air Force conducted within the Barry M. Goldwater Range East. Maricopa County, Arizona. SRI Project Number 14LK01.

September-October 2014. Crew Chief. Inventory Survey for the Marine Corps conducted within the Barry M. Goldwater Range West. Yuma County, Arizona. SRI Project Number 14NV01. Conducted inventory survey over 22,000 acres.

August 2014. Crew Chief. Phase I survey Carlsbad, New Mexico. SRI Project No 14TT01.

Cultural Resource Analysts, Inc., Lexington, Kentucky

July-August 2016. Field Technician. Phase 1 Testing for the Beattyville-Oakdale Transmission Line for the Eastern Kentucky Power Corporation. Breathitt and Lee Counties, Kentucky. CRA Project No. K16E005.

July 2016. Field Technician. Phase 1 Testing for Landen Road Improvements, Allen County, Indiana. Indiana DOT. CRA Project No. I16L018.

July 2014. Field Technician. Phase I Testing for Myer Station Stream Restoration, Nicholas County, Kentucky. CRA Project No. K14S005.

June-August 2014. Field Technician. Phase II Testing for the Spurlock Landfill, Mason County, Kentucky. CRA Project No. K14E006. Conducted test excavations at three historic and one prehistoric site in order to determine National Register eligibility. Excavated historic and prehistoric features at these sites as well.

June 2014. Field Technician. Phase I Survey for the Spurlock Landfill, Mason County, Kentucky. CRA Project No. K14E006. Conducted pedestrian survey, shovel testing, and used a fluxgate dual-head gradiometer for geophysical survey.

May-June 2014. Field Technician. Phase I Survey in Shelby County, Kentucky. CRA Project No. K14S004.

May 2014. Field Technician. Phase I Survey of Shaker Run Development, Warren County, Ohio. CRA Project No. K14O001.

July 2013. Field Technician. Phase I Survey of the Mount Olive 69 kV Tap Line Relocation Project, Casey County, Kentucky. CRA Project No. K13E005, East Kentucky Power Cooperative.

December 2011. Field Technician. Phase II National Register Evaluation of a nineteenth century mill located along Floyds Fork, Jefferson County, Kentucky. 21st Century Development.

July 2007. Laboratory Technician. Phase III Excavations at the Argosy Casino, Lawrence County, Indiana. Penn National Gaming.

June 2007. Laboratory Technician. Phase One Survey of the Russellville By-Pass, Logan County, Kentucky. Kentucky Transportation Cabinet.

June 2007. Laboratory Technician. Phase III excavations at Ward Hall, Scott County, Kentucky. Ball Homes and Barlow/DeLong Realty.

August 2002. Laboratory Technician. Phase III excavation, Harlan County, Kentucky (K02P005). Palmer Engineering and the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (Item 11-254).

The University of the South’s Archaeology Department

January-May 2014. Teaching assistant for Dr. Sarah Sherwood’s class “Archaeology of the Cumberland Plateau”. Created a database for site management using Filemaker Pro and lead groups comprised of students on small-scale surveys.

January 2013-May 2014. Worked as a laboratory technician in addition to maintaining mapping data, site databases, and artifact catalogues.

June 2012 - Fall 2013. Project Archaeologist. Worked with Dr. Sarah Sherwood and ran crews consisting of one to five people surveying approximately 528 acres on Domain at Sewanee. Documented a variety of Euro-American domestic sites and conducted test excavations at two of these sites. Wrote a report for an archaeological methods class based on this research entitled “Archaeological Testing of Two Late 19th-Early 20th c. Rural Structures on the Sewanee Domain”.

PUBLICATIONS

2015 Rankin Valley: Intensive Archaeological Survey of 495 Acres in the Sauceda Mountains, Barry M. Goldwater Range East, Arizona. Edited by Rein Vanderpot, John D. Hall and Erina P. Gruner. SRI Press, Tucson. Contributing author.

2015 Barry M. Goldwater Range East, Range Wide Survey, Pima and Maricopa County, Arizona. Edited by Eric Klucas and Rein Vanderpot. SRI Press, Tucson. Contributing author.

CONFERENCE AND POSTER PRESENTATIONS

Williams, J.P., and R.M. Niquette

2018 From Clovis to Dalton: Key Differences in Hafted Biface Resharpening. Poster to be presented at the 83rd annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Washington, D.C.

Niquette, R.M., J.E. Millar, and S.C. Sherwood

2014 Rural Life on the Southern Cumberland Plateau in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries: Archaeological Testing at 40FR607 & 608. Poster presented at the 26th annual meeting of Current Research In Tennessee Archaeology, Nashville.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Society for American Archaeologists, member

Tennessee Council for Professional Archaeology, member

Missouri Archaeological Society, member