Amanda Taylor

Amanda has field experience in Alaska, California, Nevada, New York, Oregon, and Washington. She has directed pedestrian, shovel probe, and auger surveys at historic and precontact sites. She has also directed source provenance surveys to determine where precontact peoples obtained toolstone to manufacture tools. After graduating from the University of Washington in 2012, Amanda worked as a visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Pacific Lutheran University through 2017. During her academic career, she worked throughout Washington State on both academic and CRM field projects including a cultural resources survey on Vashon Island, an excavation of an historic homestead on San Juan Island, and an analysis of stone artifacts from a site in the interior Puget Basin. Amanda has authored peer reviewed articles on toolstone acquisition, stone artifact analysis, and coastal shell midden surveys; she co-edited a volume on identifying precontact house structures in the Salish Sea. She is currently the editor of Archaeology in Washington, the journal of the Association for Washington Archaeology and previously served as the Association for Washington Archaeology treasurer.  She is a curatorial associate at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture and a member of the Society for American Archaeology.