A Spatial Analysis of CA-SDI-4638, the Bancroft Ranch House Site: or How to Force Your Existing Data into the Scientific Method Whether They Like it or Not

Dr. Amy Jordan has more than 18 years of experience in cultural resources management in California, the Great Basin, and the Pacific Northwest Coast. Within California, Dr. Jordan has worked from the northern Siskiyou and Humboldt counties to the Bay Area and Sierra Nevada to the high desert of Southern California and to the beaches and deserts of San Diego County. Dr. Jordan completed her PhD at the University of Washington in 2016 with a dissertation titled The Price of Spice: Ethnogenesis in Colonial Period Banda Islands, Maluku Province, Indonesia. She also received a terminal Master’s in Anthropology at San Diego State University in 2006 where she conducted a spatial analysis of CA-SDI-4638, the Bancroft Ranch House Site, a large contact-period Kumeyaay village site. Dr. Jordan’s field experience also includes projects in Australia, Belize, and Russia.