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Jonathan Kerr has 21 years of field, laboratory,
and supervisory experience in archaeology. He was graduated from the University
of Kentucky in 1986 with a B.S. in Anthropology and obtained a M.A. in Anthropology
with an emphasis in archaeology from the University of Arkansas in 1992.
As a Principal Investigator with the firm, he is responsible for conducting
small- to large-scale phase I surveys, phase II National Register evaluations,
and phase III mitigation projects , including creating and executing testing
and data recovery plans for Archaic, Woodland, Late Prehistoric, and Historic
period sites located in floodplain/terrace, upland, and rockshelter settings.
Mr. Kerr is responsible for every aspect involved in seeing these projects
through to completion from the initial proposal and budgeting phase to the
preparation of final reports. Mr. Kerr's background and experience includes
assisting the principal investigator of the University of Arkansas Archaeological
Field School and as a Graduate Assistant for the University of Arkansas Department
of Anthropology.
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While having conducted fieldwork in eight states, including Kentucky, West
Virginia, Tennessee, Arkansas, Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, and Virginia, Mr.
Kerr principally works in Kentucky, southern Indiana, and southern Ohio.
He has authored or co-authored hundreds of technical reports for phase
I, II, and III projects. Mr. Kerr belongs to several professional organizations,
including the Register of Professional Archaeologists, the Society for
American Archaeology, Sigma Xi; the research honorary society for non-engineers,
and the Kentucky Organization of Professional Archaeologists, and has acted
as a board member of the latter.
Mr. Kerr’s area of expertise is in the classification, analysis, and
interpretation of prehistoric ceramic material. He also is principal assistant
to the company geophysical/remote sensing specialist. As the assistant to
CRAI’s geophysical specialist, Mr. Kerr has experience collecting data
with the firm’s EM 38 conductivity and dual Geoscan fluxgate gradiometer
devices and interpreting the results obtained with them.
Mr. Kerr’s most recent publication (co-author) in 2005, which appeared
in the University of Alabama Press’ Woodland Period Semantics
in the Middle Ohio Valley, is Middle Woodland Ritualism in the Central Bluegrass:
Evidence form the Amburgey Site, Montgomery County, Kentucky. He also contributed
to two papers in the 2004 Kentucky Heritage Council’s publication
Current Archaeological Research in Kentucky: Volume 7, including Excavations
at 15Cu27:
A Rockshelter in South-Central Kentucky, and Footprint of an Historic Sawmill:
Archaeological Investigations of the Crawford-Nurre Sawmill in Williamsburg,
Kentucky.
Mr. Kerr began employment with CRAI in 1986. After attending graduate school
from 1987 to 1988, he returned to CRAI and has functioned as Project Archaeologist,
Principal Investigator, and Archaeological Resources Group Leader for CRAI’s
Kentucky office. As Archaeological Resources Group Leader, his duties include
supervising other Principal Investigators, Project Archaeologists, and
field technicians, coordination with the Vice President of Operations in
the Kentucky
office and President of CRAI, interaction with federal agencies and private
sector clients, development of research designs and budgets, project staffing,
data analysis, and report writing and editing.
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