Staff

Matt Barbour, Project Director

Matt BarbourMatt Barbour
Project Director
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. I have had the privilege of working on all of our large-scale projects in downtown Santa Fe.

In 2010 I received an M.A. in anthropology at the University of New Mexico through the Public Archaeology Program. Recently I have completed fieldwork on five sites south of Tres Piedras, and at the Santa Fe Civic Center (El Pueblo de Santa Fe). In my down time, I am active in the Archaeological Society of New Mexico, the New Mexico Archaeological Council, the Society for Industrial Archaeology, and the Society for Historical Archaeology.