CRM GEOARCHAEOLOGY AND JOHN ALBANESE

As one of the pioneers of geoarchaeology in the academic sphere, the work of John Albanese easily made the leap to cultural resource management. With the large development projects of the 1980s, John undertook investigations on numerous archaeological sites. Central among these were his geoarchaeological investigations along the Middle Fork of the Powder River, only slightly upstream from the Leopold and Miller (1954) type site. John has the ability to put together sedimentology and pedology in a manner that even archaeologists can understand. As revealed by his work on Middle Fork, his work has greatly increased our understanding of the natural and human history of the Holocene.