Specializing in historical
archaeological research focusing on trade bead research in western North America
from the 15th through early 20th centuries. Major projects have included:
15th to mid-18th century Punyik Point site, Alaska
Late
18th-century to early 19th-century Spanish California Mission San Miguel Arcangel
Early 19th-century Russian American Company Fort Ross in northern California
Mid
19th-century Hudson’s Bay Company Fort Vancouver in the Pacific Northwest
Late
19th-century American Fur Company Fort Union in the Northern Plains
Late
19th- to early 20th-century southern Owens Valley in eastern California
U.S. Patent research on bead technology for the mid to late 19th and early to
mid 20th centuries.
For further information on
these projects and others, contact: Lester A. Ross, Inc.