To Provide On-call cultural resource support services to Caltrans North Region (Districts 1,2,3) through Pacific Legacy Inc., under the terms of Contract 03A3090 to support Caltrans in the maintenance, development, and construction of proposed Caltrans transportation facilities.
The Anthropological Studies Center (ASC) will perform a cultural resources study for the proposed Monte Rio Redwoods Regional Park and Open Space Preserve (MRRRP), Monte Rio, Sonoma County, California. MRRRP is approximately 515 acres along Dutch Bill Creek, but the proposed survey area is approximately 250 acres, which will include trails, areas along Dutch Bill Creek, and potential public access or use areas. The cultural resources study is being prepared to support an IS/MND and Master Plan.
The Anthropological Studies Center (ASC) will perform archaeological monitoring services for Mercer-Fraser Company for the Caltrans storm damage repair work on MEN-20 near PM 17.00. The work is taking place in the vicinity of Camp 20, a known tribal site and historic-era logging camp.
The Anthropological Studies Center (ASC) will conduct on-call archaeological monitoring and/or facilitate tribal cultural monitoring throughout the California Department of Parks and Recreation, Bay Area District. On-call monitoring may include providing tailgate style training to construction personnel, performing daily monitoring functions, and facilitating tribal cultural monitoring as necessary.
The Anthropological Studies Center (ASC) will continue efforts towards the repatriation of Native American human remains and associated funerary items, and if present, unassociated funerary objects, objects of cultural patrimony, and sacred objects (collectively referred to as cultural items) housed at ASC.
The Anthropological Studies Center (ASC) will conduct resources studies at Bouverie Preserve, Cypress Grove Preserve, Tom’s Point Preserve, and Martin Griffin Preserve in Sonoma and Marin counties. This project involves a cultural resources review and field study of each preserve and recordation of any resources identified.
The Anthropological Studies Center (ASC) will assist CALFIRE with archaeological, historical, or ethnographic research; archaeological records checks; correspondence with Native American tribes and other Native Americans; archaeological field inspections and surveys; site boundary definition and mapping work; project reviews; impact assessments; resource evaluation excavations; surface collections; site record preparation; development of recommendations for the protection and management of tribal-cultural, archaeological and historical resources; cultural resource monitoring; and preparatio
This project is a three-year extension of the Anthropological Studies Center’s on-call contract with Caltrans District 4, Office of Environmental Maintenance, to provide professional and technical services in delivering maintenance projects with compliance needs involving cultural resource identification, evaluation, and mitigation.
The Anthropological Studies Center (ASC) will prepare and implement an Archaeological Testing Program for the 915 Cayuga Project and undertake other steps as needed/required. At the completion of the archaeological testing program, a written report of the findings will be submitted.
The Anthropological Studies Center (ASC) will manage and research the archaeological collection at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center (MGAGCC), Twentynine Palms, CA. This will include accessioning the backlog of artifacts and reports, receiving and processing new artifacts and reports, managing and updating inventory database, facilitating and conducting research on the collection, and designing and assembling a full-room interpretive archaeological display.
