Amanda Jorgenson
Archaeologist
Contact
Education: M.A., Cultural Resources Management, Sonoma State University, 2025; B.A., Anthropology, San José State University, 2018
Experience: 8 years in California archaeology, 2 years with the ASC
AMANDA JORGENSON is an archaeologist at the Anthropological Studies Center (ASC) and a graduate of the CRM M.A. program at Sonoma State University. She has led or executed thousands of acres of survey of California's rugged terrain, including the high deserts and pine forests of the northeast, the oak woodlands of the Bay, the rocky eastern Sierras, and the orange groves of the Central Valley. Ms. Jorgenson is skilled at a full range of additional archaeological tasks, including recording historical and pre-contact resources in accordance with federal regulations, maintaining GIS databases, excavating test units and archaeological features, monitoring heavy equipment at construction sites, conducting post-fire assessments of sites, recovering buried human remains, and artifact curation in a laboratory setting.
Ms. Jorgenson has authored technical reports for small projects with the ASC. She has also co-authored chapters of larger reports and has presented research at three professional conferences. Ms. Jorgenson has been a member of the Society for California Archaeology (SCA) since 2018 and regularly attends the annual meeting.