Staff
Matt Barbour, Project Director
Matt Barbour
Archaeologist
505-982-1375
matthew.barbour@state.nm.us
I was exposed at an early age to archaeological and historical sites living on Boston's North Shore, in Panama's Canal Zone, and on the plains of New Mexico's Estancia Basin. As a family, we visited Fort Sewall, Bunker Hill, Plymouth Rock, Panama Vieja, Colon, Drake's Island, Chaco Canyon, Fort Union, and the Palace of the Governors, to name a few. I cannot imagine having become anything other than a historical archaeologist.
At UNM I got my first taste of fieldwork under Ann Ramenofsky at San Marcos in the summer of 2000. Later that same year, I traveled to Poland and for the Museum of First Piasts on two sites east of Poznan, Ostrow Lednicki and Giecz.
I received a B.A. in anthropology with a minor in history from UNM in 2002. A week later I began work for TRC in Albuquerque, where I primarily did surveys of BLM land in and around Pinos Altos. OAS was about to begin excavations behind the Palace of the Governors when I came to work here in October of that year. Five years later, I have had the privilege of working on all of our large-scale projects in downtown Santa Fe.
Most recently, I have been conducting archaeological investigations of Fort Marcy prior to the construction of the Santa Fe Civic Center. My experience there will be a stepping stone towards an M.A. and perhaps a Ph.D. in years to come. In my down time, I am active in the Archaeological Society of New Mexico, the New Mexico Archaeological Council, the Society for Military History, the Medieval Academy of America, the Society for Industrial Archaeology, and the Society for Historical Archaeology.