Vickie Clay, M.S.
Vickie has been involved in cultural resources management since 1971, including both archaeological and geological research. Currently she is a Principal Investigator with Far Western’s Great Basin Office in Carson City, Nevada. She has served as Project Manager, Field Director, Project Archaeologist, and Geoarchaeologist on numerous projects in New England, the Southwest, California, and the Great Basin of Idaho, Utah, and Nevada, spanning the Paleo-archaic through historic-periods. During the past 20 years her work in Great Basin and California archaeology has included oversight of an array of large and small projects through preparation of research designs, programmatic agreements, regional contexts, and treatment plans; directing field and laboratory work, conducting lithic analysis, and preparing technical and academic publications in timely and cost-effective ways.
Vickie’s interests include all phases of the human-landscape interaction and cultural versus natural processes involved in site formation. Additionally, she brings a strong commitment to cooperative interdisciplinary research to produce sound environmental archaeology products. Publications include those in paleontology, soils, and field archaeology journals. Recently she wrote an internet article about winter village sites for Nevada’s Online Encyclopedia and coauthored professional papers on fire-cracked rock features in the Mojave Desert south of Las Vegas, and on a chert quarry in the Desatoya Mountains of west-central Nevada.