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Since 1998, Mrs. Butcher Orr has been employed by Cultural Resource Analysts, Inc. working on a variety of archaeological projects. Duties have included field technician, laboratory technician to laboratory director of the West Virginia office of CRAI. The majority of her occupational experience comes from the various phases and sites associated with the Marmet Lock and Dam Replacement Project in Kanawha County, West Virginia. She received a B.A. in Anthropology from Eastern Kentucky University in 1998. Areas of expertise include historic archaeology, prehistoric ceramics, laboratory methods, material analysis, and report writing. Specific interests focus on child interment patterns in historic cemeteries, and children in the archaeological record.
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Susan's duties have included field technician on all phases of projects in Kentucky and West Virginia. As a laboratory technician she was responsible for washing, sorting, and cataloging all artifacts collected by the West Virginia office. Becoming laboratory director brought with it the experience of controlling a large amount of artifacts, curation practices, project management, acting as liaison between field and office, and contributing to phase II and III reports. Mrs. Butcher Orr has also given several papers on child interment patterns in historic cemeteries in West Virginia. Most recently she has assisted William Updike on the analysis of the Jenkins House Plantation in Cabell County, West Virginia (46Cb41). Work on the Marmet Lock and Dam Replacement project is still ongoing.
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