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Anna Semon
Archaeologist
GENERAL RESPONSIBILITIES
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Field supervision.
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Laboratory processing and
documentation of cultural materials.
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Excavation and documentation of test
units.
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Recording and analyzing site
stratigraphy
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Designing CAD graphics for reports.
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Archival and historic map research.
PRIOR WORK EXPERIENCE
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Project Archivist, Smithsonian
Institution, Washington D.C., 2000.
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Worked individually and with team
members in order to organize, arrange, and maintain a record unit within
the photographic collection that focused on the history of the
Smithsonian Institution.
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Processed and entered data about
the photographs into a spreadsheet which was the first step of a
multi-step process to ready the collection for internet access.
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Basic conservation and
organization of the photograph collection.
EDUCATION
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University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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Master of Arts in Social Science,
Concentration in Archaeology
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Class Experience: Researched and
analyzed bone and ivory artifacts from the Middle Bronze Age in Northern
Syria with a binocular microscope and scanning electron microscope;
prepared an ethnoarchaeological grant proposal for the study of
handicrafts in India; cleaned, drew, documented, cut, and thin-sectioned
ceramic fragments in order to analyze and study ceramic production and
consumption in Southern France; applied knowledge of ArcInfo and ArcMap
to create GIS maps and information databases.
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Montclair State University,
Montclair, NJ
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Field School: learned method
techniques for ground reconnaissance, shovel testing, excavation, and
mapping
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Northeastern University, Boston, MA
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B.S. in History, summa cum laude
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Concentration in Public History
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
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Society for American Archaeology
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Archaeological Institute of America
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National Council of Public History
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Phi Alphi Theta international History
Honor Society
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Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society
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Phi Beta Delta Honor Society for
International Scholars
  
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