Joel K•••

About

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Senior Lecturer and President/Principal Investigator Joel D. K••• has a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology / Archaeology from Northwestern University, Masters of Arts in Anthropology / Archaeology from Harvard University, Doctorate (PhD) in Anthropology / Archaeology from Harvard University, and a Juris Doctor Degree from University of Miami School of Law with a focus on historic preservation, antiquities, and art law. Joel K••• has completed archaeology projects throughout the globe, from an array of time periods, in North America, Europe, the Near East, and Oceania. Joel is the Senior Lecturer of Archaeology and Cultural Heritage, for the Centre of Samoan Studies, at the National University of Samoa, and the President / Principal Investigator of PRC, Inc, a cultural research management firm. Joel has also served in government positions as a Territorial Archaeologist and Interim Historic Preservation Officer for the U.S. Federal and American Samoa Government. His areas of research are remote sensing technology: ground penetrating radar, magnetometry and LiDAR, historic preservation and antiquities laws, archaeological survey techniques, zooarchaeology, physical anthropology, lithic analysis, excavation methods, and applied archaeology processes.