Education

B.A - Anthropology (archaeology) & First Nations studies from the University of Northern British Columbia (2020)

Publications

Prentiss, Anna Marie, Ethan Ryan, Ashley Hampton, Kathryn Bobolinski, Pei-Lin Yu, Matthew Schmader, and Alysha Edwards

 2022 Household Archaeology at the Bridge River Site (EeRl4), British Columbia: Spatial Distributions of Features, Lithic Artifacts, and Faunal Remains on Fifteen Anthropogenic Floors from Housepit 54. Anthropological Series, The University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, (In Press).

Prentiss, Anna Marie, Alysha Edwards, Ashley Hampton, Ethan Ryan, Kathryn Bobolinski, and Emma Vance

 2020 Burned Roofs and Cultural Traditions: Renewing and Closing Houses in the Ancient Villages of the Middle Fraser Canyon, British Columbia. In Agent of Change: The Deposition and Manipulation of Ash in the Past, edited by Barbara Roth and E. Charles Adams. Berghahn Books. (In Press).

Specialized Skills

GIS software (QGIS, ARCGIS)

 BC Basic Chainsaw Operators certificate

RISC Archaeological Inventory and CMT Training for Crew Members certification

Archaeological survey and excavations 

Experience/ knowledge in transitioning to Indigenous based methodologies in community-based research

artifact cataloguing and analysis

Heritage and archaeology report writing

Professional Experience

Archaeologist – St’át’imc Government Services, Lillooet BC                  

2017- present

• As a Heritage Field Assistant for projects within the BC Hydro and St’át’imc Nation Settlement Agreement, I conduct field work that involves surveying and assessing archaeological sites for past, present, and future impacts by BC Hydro.

This includes:

• completing archaeology overview assessments and researching to fieldwork for archaeology impact assessments, preliminary field reconnaissance surveys, and site excavation and mapping.
• Lab and office-based work includes library and database research, artifact cataloguing and analysis, completing archaeology site forms, and heritage and archaeology report writing.
• The archaeology projects that I have worked on include three field seasons for the BC Hydro Reservoir Archaeology Program and AIA’s with archaeologists for Wood PCL and Ursus Heritage Consulting.

Lands and Stewardship Portal Intern - Takla Lake Nation, Prince George BC  

January 2019 – May 2020

• Experience in GIS gathering and digitizing traditional land use and occupancy data and loading this data into the stewardship portal, as well as creating documentation for procedures to be carried out in creating the pilot datasets and assisting in moving traditional studies data into the stewardship portal.