AINW - Key Persons
AINW Corporate President and Senior Archaeologist. Ms. Reese is a co-founder/owner of AINW. She started her archaeological career in 1975 and has focused on the field of cultural resource management.She has worked on many cultural resource projects throughout Oregon and Washington, plus others in California and Nevada. Her areas of archaeological specialization include the environmental setting of prehistoric settlements, especially geoarchaeology and prehistory of the Columbia River. She has extensive knowledge of regulatory requirements in the Pacific Northwest. jo@ainw.com
) is a 50-year veteran of specialized lithic technology studies. John studied under Don Crabtree, a pioneer in the field, and has worked with numerous other experts. John has published extensively, is on the editorial board of the journal Lithic Technology, and has taught classes and lithic technology workshops for over 40 years.
AINW Corporate Vice President, Senior Archaeologist, and Lithic Technology Specialist. Dr. Fagan, co-founder/owner of AINW, began his professional career in 1965 and has several decades of experience in archaeology of the Pacific Northwest and the western United States. He has directed numerous projects throughout the region. Dr. Fagan's 15-year tenure as District Archaeologist for the Portland District of the Corps of Engineers provided him with considerable knowledge of federal cultural resource programs and requirements. He is a recognized authority on lithic analysis and replication of stone tools. john@ainw.com
Job Titles:
- Supervising Archaeologist
) focused on ground stone tool technology for her Master's thesis at Portland State University. Employing experimental archaeology, Kelley promotes a fine-grained technological approach to ground stone analysis through replication and use wear studies. Other research interests include the development of hunter-gatherer social complexity in the Lower Columbia, public archaeology, and landscape archaeology.
Job Titles:
- Supervising Archaeologist
) is a flintknapper and lithic analyst at AINW. Meghan is an instructor for AINW lithic technology workshops. Meghan's research aims to identify the lithic reduction strategies employed at site 35MA375, a biface cache site. Technological analysis and experimental replication are employed to determine if artifacts recovered near the cache are culturally, temporally, or functionally related to the cache of bifaces. Other research interests include lithic technology, experimental archaeology, public archaeology, and cultural resource management in the Pacific Northwest.
) studied lithic technology under Dr. Jeffrey Flenniken and was awarded the Crabtree Memorial Scholarship in Lithic Technology during graduate studies at Washington State University. Terry has published articles and taught classes in lithic technological studies for over 30 years.