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Mr. Updike’s areas of expertise are
industrial archaeology, historical archaeology, and historic materials analysis,
while other research interests include Frontier Settlement, Appalachian Settlement
and Industrialization, and American Revolution and Civil War topics. Since
1991, Mr. Updike has participated in extensive field research in the United
States (Alaska, Kentucky, Michigan, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, and West
Virginia). He has participated in fieldwork on over 75 Phase I surveys, 22
Phase II National Register evaluations, and 12 Phase III mitigation projects.
Mr. Updike's laboratory experience includes cleaning, cataloging, identification,
and analyzing historic artifacts. Mr. Updike also has experience with remote
sensing techniques (ground penetrating radar, soil resistivity, and magnetometry),
HABS/HAER recording techniques, and cultural landscape study techniques.
Mr. Updike has authored or co-authored over 100 technical reports and five
publications. As an industrial archaeologist, Mr. Updike has documented coal,
copper and gold mining sites, an iron furnace and associated facilities,
salt manufacturing sites, and a grist mill. Because of the extent of public
interest in Mr. Updike’s research, Wonderful West Virginia magazine
published two articles about his work (November 2001 and January 2003 issues).
In addition, his work relating to the early Kanawha Valley salt industry
and the nineteenth-century Jenkins plantation has been featured in two videos,
Red Salt and Reynolds and Ghosts of Greenbottom, which were produced by the
Paradise Film Institute at West Virginia State University with funding provided
by the Huntington District Corps of Engineers. The videos have been widely
distributed throughout the state to libraries and schools, and have been
shown several times on West Virginia Public Television.
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