Scott Byram received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Oregon in 2002. He has investigated over two hundred archaeological sites in California and the Pacific Northwest. His extensive research on coastal and high desert landscape archaeology and excavation at numerous site types in the western U.S. provides him with a perspective on stratigraphy and features indicated in California GPR data. He developed an expertise on estuary landscape changes and the effects of earthquakes on Native American sites. His expertise in historical landscape changes, as demonstrated in his 2013 UC Berkeley book Triangulating Archaeological Landscapes, the U.S. Coast Survey in California, 1850-1895 allows him to assess the context of historical sites and features.
Byram has performed ground-penetrating radar projects or trainings for several universities including UC Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz, Santa Clara University, Stanford University, San Diego State University, St. Mary’s College, the University of Louisiana, SUNY Binghamton, and Southern Oregon University. He has been a research affiliate at the University of California, Berkeley Archaeological Research Facility since 2007. Byram has worked on projects in collaboration with the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria, the Coquille Indian Tribe, Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians, the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians, and the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community. Byram Archaeological Consulting, LLC was established in 2006. The firm’s clients include several archaeological and engineering firms, city and county planning offices, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Monterey Presidio, California State Parks (Monterey, North Coast, San Diego, and Santa Cruz).
Recent Articles:
Site Interiography and Geophysical Scanning: Interpreting the Texture and Form of Archaeological Deposits with Ground-Penetrating Radar.Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 71:1-25, by Jun Ueno Sunseri and Scott Byram, on line at http://rdcu.be/pwM5
In Press: Geophysical Investigation of Mission San Francisco Solano, Sonoma, California. Historical Archaeology, by Scott Byram, Kent Lightfoot, Rob Cuthrell, Peter Nelson, Jun Ueno Sunseri, Roberta A. Jewett, Breck Parkman, Nico Tripcevich
Forthcoming Article: Principles and Practice of Investigating Buried Adobe Features with Ground-Penetrating Radar. Scott Byram and Jun Sunseri (in review, Journal of Field Archaeology).
Additional articles and books at https://berkeley.academia.edu/ScottByram and https://works.bepress.com/byram/
Byram has performed ground-penetrating radar projects or trainings for several universities including UC Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz, Santa Clara University, Stanford University, San Diego State University, St. Mary’s College, the University of Louisiana, SUNY Binghamton, and Southern Oregon University. He has been a research affiliate at the University of California, Berkeley Archaeological Research Facility since 2007. Byram has worked on projects in collaboration with the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria, the Coquille Indian Tribe, Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians, the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians, and the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community. Byram Archaeological Consulting, LLC was established in 2006. The firm’s clients include several archaeological and engineering firms, city and county planning offices, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Monterey Presidio, California State Parks (Monterey, North Coast, San Diego, and Santa Cruz).
Recent Articles:
Site Interiography and Geophysical Scanning: Interpreting the Texture and Form of Archaeological Deposits with Ground-Penetrating Radar.Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 71:1-25, by Jun Ueno Sunseri and Scott Byram, on line at http://rdcu.be/pwM5
In Press: Geophysical Investigation of Mission San Francisco Solano, Sonoma, California. Historical Archaeology, by Scott Byram, Kent Lightfoot, Rob Cuthrell, Peter Nelson, Jun Ueno Sunseri, Roberta A. Jewett, Breck Parkman, Nico Tripcevich
Forthcoming Article: Principles and Practice of Investigating Buried Adobe Features with Ground-Penetrating Radar. Scott Byram and Jun Sunseri (in review, Journal of Field Archaeology).
Additional articles and books at https://berkeley.academia.edu/ScottByram and https://works.bepress.com/byram/
Other Publications by Scott Byram
2013 Triangulating Archaeological Landscapes: The U.S. Coast Survey in California. Volume 65 in Contributions of the Archaeological Research Facility, University of California, Berkeley.
2009 Shell Mounds and Shell Roads: The Destruction of Oregon Coast Middens for Early Road Surfacing. Current Archaeological Happenings in Oregon 34(1):6-14. http://works.bepress.com/byram/
2008 Colonial Power and Indigenous Justice: Fur Trade Violence and Its Aftermath in Yaquina Narrative. Oregon Historical Quarterly, 109(3). http://works.bepress.com/byram/
2007 Editor, Special Section: Tsunamis, Earthquakes and Indigenous Communities of the Oregon Coast. Oregon Historical Quarterly, 108(2). http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ohq/108.2/byram.html
2005 The Work of a Nation: Richard D. Cutts and the Coast Survey Map of Fort Clatsop. Oregon Historical Quarterly 105(2):254-271. http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ohq/106.2/byram.html
2002 Scoquelle, Coquelle, and Coquille. In Changing Landscapes, Sustaining Traditions. Edited by Donald B. Ivy and R. Scott Byram. Coquille Indian Tribe, North Bend, Oregon.
2002 Changing Landscapes, Sustaining Traditions. Edited by Donald B. Ivy and R. Scott Byram. Coquille Indian Tribe, North Bend, Oregon.
2001 Ourigan: Wealth of the Northwest Coast. Scott Byram and David G. Lewis, Oregon Historical Quarterly 100(2). http://works.bepress.com/byram/
2001 Coquille Cultural Heritage and Wetland Archaeology. In Enduring Records: Proceedings of the 1999 Wetland Archaeological Research Project Conference, edited by Barbara Purdy, Oxbow Books, England.
2000 Wetland Landscapes and Archaeological Sites in the Coquille Estuary, Middle Holocene to Recent Times. Scott Byram and Robert L. Witter. In Changing Landscapes: Proceedings of the Third Annual Coquille Indian Tribe Cultural Preservation Conference, 1999. Edited by Robert Losey. Coquille Indian Tribe, North Bend, Oregon. http://works.bepress.com/byram/
1999 Newberry Crater Debitage. Scott Byram, Thomas Connolly, and Robert Musil. In Newberry Crater: A Ten-Thousand-Year Record of Human Occupation and Environmental Change in the Basin-Plateau Borderlands, Thomas Connolly. University of Utah Anthropological Papers 121.
1998 Fishing Weirs in Oregon Coast Estuaries. In Hidden Dimensions, the Cultural Significance of Wetland Archaeology, edited by Kathryn Bernick, University of British Columbia Press.
1998 The Development of Maritime Adaptations on the Southern Northwest Coast of North America. Jon M. Erlandson, Mark A. Tveskov, and R. Scott Byram. Arctic Anthropology 35(1):6-22.
1998 Oregon Wet Site Basketry: A Review of Structural Types. Thomas Connolly and Scott Byram. In Contributions to Oregon Archaeology, Albert C. Oetting, ed.. Assoc. of Oregon Archaeo. Occas. Papers #6.
2013 Triangulating Archaeological Landscapes: The U.S. Coast Survey in California. Volume 65 in Contributions of the Archaeological Research Facility, University of California, Berkeley.
2009 Shell Mounds and Shell Roads: The Destruction of Oregon Coast Middens for Early Road Surfacing. Current Archaeological Happenings in Oregon 34(1):6-14. http://works.bepress.com/byram/
2008 Colonial Power and Indigenous Justice: Fur Trade Violence and Its Aftermath in Yaquina Narrative. Oregon Historical Quarterly, 109(3). http://works.bepress.com/byram/
2007 Editor, Special Section: Tsunamis, Earthquakes and Indigenous Communities of the Oregon Coast. Oregon Historical Quarterly, 108(2). http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ohq/108.2/byram.html
2005 The Work of a Nation: Richard D. Cutts and the Coast Survey Map of Fort Clatsop. Oregon Historical Quarterly 105(2):254-271. http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ohq/106.2/byram.html
2002 Scoquelle, Coquelle, and Coquille. In Changing Landscapes, Sustaining Traditions. Edited by Donald B. Ivy and R. Scott Byram. Coquille Indian Tribe, North Bend, Oregon.
2002 Changing Landscapes, Sustaining Traditions. Edited by Donald B. Ivy and R. Scott Byram. Coquille Indian Tribe, North Bend, Oregon.
2001 Ourigan: Wealth of the Northwest Coast. Scott Byram and David G. Lewis, Oregon Historical Quarterly 100(2). http://works.bepress.com/byram/
2001 Coquille Cultural Heritage and Wetland Archaeology. In Enduring Records: Proceedings of the 1999 Wetland Archaeological Research Project Conference, edited by Barbara Purdy, Oxbow Books, England.
2000 Wetland Landscapes and Archaeological Sites in the Coquille Estuary, Middle Holocene to Recent Times. Scott Byram and Robert L. Witter. In Changing Landscapes: Proceedings of the Third Annual Coquille Indian Tribe Cultural Preservation Conference, 1999. Edited by Robert Losey. Coquille Indian Tribe, North Bend, Oregon. http://works.bepress.com/byram/
1999 Newberry Crater Debitage. Scott Byram, Thomas Connolly, and Robert Musil. In Newberry Crater: A Ten-Thousand-Year Record of Human Occupation and Environmental Change in the Basin-Plateau Borderlands, Thomas Connolly. University of Utah Anthropological Papers 121.
1998 Fishing Weirs in Oregon Coast Estuaries. In Hidden Dimensions, the Cultural Significance of Wetland Archaeology, edited by Kathryn Bernick, University of British Columbia Press.
1998 The Development of Maritime Adaptations on the Southern Northwest Coast of North America. Jon M. Erlandson, Mark A. Tveskov, and R. Scott Byram. Arctic Anthropology 35(1):6-22.
1998 Oregon Wet Site Basketry: A Review of Structural Types. Thomas Connolly and Scott Byram. In Contributions to Oregon Archaeology, Albert C. Oetting, ed.. Assoc. of Oregon Archaeo. Occas. Papers #6.