Faught – Curriculum Vitae1
Curriculum Vitae
Michael Kent Faught
January 2015
703 Truett
Tallahassee, Florida 32303Phone: 850-274-9145
EDUCATION
Ph.D.Anthropology, 1996, University of Arizona, Tucson
1996Clovis Origins and Underwater Prehistoric Archaeology in Northwestern Florida. Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson.
M.A.Anthropology, 1989, University of Arizona, Tucson (Geology minor)
1990Resonance in Prehistory: The Peopling of North America: Language, Biology, and Archaeology. Master's paper in lieu of thesis, on file Arizona State Museum Library, Tucson.
B.A.Anthropology 1978, University of Arizona (Geology minor) with Honors, Phi Beta Kappa
PROFESSIONAL EXPERTISE, PUBLICATION GENRES, AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Western Hemisphere, Paleoindian and Early Archaic Archaeology: Origins, pathways, settlement patterns, and the emergence of regional traditions. North, Middle, and South America.
Submerged Prehistoric Sites Archaeology: development of principles and methods for continental shelf prehistoric archaeology: predictive modeling, remote sensing, mapping, testing, and excavation
Remote Sensing: Side Scan Sonar, Subbottom profiler, magnetometry, data gathering, contouring, mosaicking, and GIS analysis.
Geoarchaeology: Applications of geological principles, methods, and theories to archaeology, particularly marine geoarchaeology
Chipped Stone Analysis: Including projectile point typological history and systematics, tool function, and debitage analysis
Public Archaeology: Law and practice of Cultural Resource Management (CRM), I also have experience conducting archaeology with avocationals, high schoolers, and people with physical and mental disabilities.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2009-presentCourtesy Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Florida
2005 – present Board Member and Treasurer, Archaeological Research Cooperative, (arcoop.org)
2014 - presentPrincipal Investigator, SEARCH, Inc.
2004 – 2014Senior Maritime Archaeologist, Panamerican Consultants, Inc.
1997 - 2004Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Florida State University
1999 – 2004Principal Investigator, PaleoAucilla Prehistory Project
1999 – 2004Principle Investigator, Dog and St. George Islands Shipwreck Survey
1997UW Archaeologist, Santa Fe River Survey, Florida Department of State, Bureau of Archaeological Research - CRM.
1996-1997UW Archaeology Director: Bay County Shipwreck Survey, Bureau of Archaeological Research, Panama City Florida, CRM
1996Co-Principal Investigator UW Archaeological Survey Fanning Springs, Levy County, Florida Southeastern Archaeology, Inc. CRM
1995UW Archaeology Field director, Aucilla River Prehistory Project, Jefferson County, Florida
1991-1996Projects Director at Desert Archaeology, Inc, Tucson, Arizona, CRM.
1994Project Director Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, Tucson, Arizona, CRM.
19871991Chief Archaeologist "Project Origins" (involving people with physical and mental handicaps in serious archaeological research projects - Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona)
1987-1989UW Archaeologist Page/Ladson Paleoindian Site, Aucilla River, Northwestern Florida
1980-1986Civil draftsman for Tucson Water, City of Tucson (resigned to continue studies in Anthropology), also self employed draftsman, illustrator, photographer
1980Archaeologist, Tumacacori National Park, Spanish Colonial Mission excavations.
1978Staff, Arizona State Museum various CRM projects: participated in artifact processing, and sorting, soil flotation, and pollen extraction
1978Staff, University of Arizona Field School at Grasshopper.
1976Archaeologist and Staff photographer, Fundacion de Historia, Antropologia e Archaeologia de Puerto Rico
MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Register of Professional ArchaeologistsFlorida Archaeological Council
Society for American ArchaeologyCenter for the Study of the First Americans
Florida Anthropological SocietySoutheastern Archaeological Conference
Geological Society of AmericaAmerican Academy of Underwater Sciences
PUBLICATIONS (by genre)
Journal Articles
Faught, Michael K. and Waggoner, James C. Jr.
2012The Early Archaic to Middle Archaic Transition in Florida: An Argument for Discontinuity. Florida Anthropologist, 65(3):155-175
Faught, Michael K.
2010The Danish Model Gets Us Going: Comment on Jonathan Benjamin’s “Submerged Prehistoric Landscapes and Underwater Site Discovery: Reevaluating the ‘Danish Model’ for International Practice. Journal of Island & Coastal Archaeology, 5:271-273
Faught, Michael K.
2008Archaeological Roots of Human Diversity in the New World: A Compilation of Accurate and Precise Radiocarbon Ages from Earliest Sites. American Antiquity, 73(4):670-698
Faught, Michael and Flemming, Nic
2008Submerged Prehistoric Sites: “Needles in Haystacks” for CRM and Industry. Sea Technology Magazine
Anderson, David G., D. Shane Miller, Stephen J. Yerka, and Michael K. Faught
2005Paleoindian Database of the Americas: 2005 Status Report. Current Research in the Pleistocene, 22:91-92
Faught, Michael K.
2004 The Underwater Archaeology of Paleolandscapes, Apalachee Bay, Florida. American Antiquity Volume. 69, Number 2:235-249
Faught, Michael K., Michael Hornum, Brinnen Carter, R. Christopher Goodwin, S. David Webb
2003Earliest Holocene Tool Assemblages from Northern Florida with Stratigraphically Controlled Radiocarbon Estimates (Sites 8LE2105 and 8JE591) Current Research in the Pleistocene, 20:16-18.
Marks, Brian S. and Michael K. Faught
2003Ontolo (8JE1577): Another Early Prehistoric Site Submerged on the Continental Shelf of NW Florida. Current Research in the Pleistocene 20:49-51
Faught, Michael K.
2002/2004Submerged Paleoindian and Archaic Sites of the Big Bend, Florida. Journal of Field Archaeology Volume 29, No. 3:273-290.
Anderson, David G. and Faught, Michael K.
2000Paleoindian Artefact Distributions: Evidence and Implications. Antiquity 74:507-513
Anderson, David G. and Faught, Michael K
1998 Distribution of Fluted Paleoindian Projectile Points: Update 1998. Archaeology of Eastern North America26:163-187
Faught, Michael K. and Carter, Brinnen
1998Early Human Occupation and Environmental Change in Northwestern Florida. In As the World Warmed: Human Adaptations Across the PleistoceneHolocene Boundary, edited by Berit Eriksen and Lawrence G. StrausQuaternary International Volume 49/50:167-176
Faught, Michael K. and Donoghue, Joseph F.
1997Marine Inundated Archaeological Sites and Paleofluvial Systems: Examples from a Karst Controlled Continental Shelf Setting in the Apalachee Bay, Northeastern Gulf of Mexico. Geoarchaeology 12 (5): 417-458
Faught, Michael K., Anderson, D.G., and Gisiger, A
1994North American Paleoindian Database--An Update. Current Research in the Pleistocene 10, pp 32-35
Faught, Michael K., Dunbar, James S., and Webb, S. David
1992New evidence for Paleoindians on the Continental Shelf of Northwestern Florida. Current Research in the Pleistocene, Volume 9, pp 11-12
Faught, Michael K.
1988Underwater Archaeological Sites in the Apalachee Bay of Florida,Florida Anthropologist41(1) 185-190
Book Chapters
Faught, Michael K.
2014Remote Sensing, Target Identification, and Testing for Submerged Prehistoric Sites in Florida: Process and Protocol in Underwater CRM Projects. In Prehistoric Archaeology on the Continental Shelf, edited by Amanda Evans , Joseph Flatman, and Nic Flemming. Springer
Faught, Michael K. and Amy E. Gusick
2011Submerged Prehistory in the Americas. In Submerged Prehistory, edited by J. Benjamin, C. Bonsall, C. Pickard and A. Fischer, pp. 145-157. Oxbow Books, Oxford (Peer reviewed)
Gusick, Amy E. and Faught, Michael K.
2011Prehistoric Archaeology Underwater: A Nascent Subdiscipline Critical to Understanding Early Coastal Occupations and Migration Routes IN Bicho, N., Haws, J. & Davis, L. G. (Eds.) Trekking the Shore: Changing Coastlines and the Antiquity of Coastal Settlement. New York, Springer(Peer reviewed).
Faught, Michael K.
2006Paleoindian Archaeology in Florida and Panama: Two Circum-Gulf Regions Exhibiting Waisted Lanceolate Projectile Points. Ice Age Occupations of the Americas: A Hemispheric Perspective, J. Morrow, and C. Gnecco editors, University Press of Florida, Gainesville, pp 164-183(Peer reviewed).
Faught, Michael K. and Norr, Lynette
2005The National Reservoir Inundation Study Of 1975-1980 and Its Relevance For A Case Study From Lake Alajuela, Panama. Damming the Past Edited by Fekri Hassan and Steven Brandt, Lexington Books, Lanham MD.
Dunbar J.S., Webb, D. and Faught, Michael K.
1992Inundated Prehistoric Sites in Apalachee Bay, Florida, and the Search for the Clovis Shoreline. In Paleo-Shorelines and Prehistory: An Investigation of Method, edited by L. Johnson and M. Stright, Telford Press, pp 117-146.
Proceedings
Faught, Michael K.
2003 Geophysical Remote Sensing and Underwater Cultural Resource Management of Submerged Prehistoric Sites in Apalachee Bay: A Deep-Water Example, Site Predictive models, and Site Discoveries. Proceedings: Twenty Second Annual Gulf of Mexico Information Transfer Meetings, 2002. Minerals Management Service, New Orleans. Edited by Melanie McKay Published on line at:
Doran, Glen and Faught, Michael K.
2000Meta-Analysis Of Bifaces And Bones, in International Colloquium on the First Americans, pp. 20-22, edited by Mark Hudson and K. Omoto, Interdisciplinary Study on the Origins of Japanese Peoples and Cultures Newsletter, March 2001. International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunkin), Kyoto, Japan.
Faught, Michael K.
1991Project Origins: A Unique Program In Archaeology for People with Handicaps. InArcheology and Education: The Classroom and Beyond. Edited by Smith, K.C. and McManamon, F. Archaeological Assistance Study, Number 2, U.S. Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C.
Dunbar, J.S., Webb, S.D, Faught, M. K., Anuskiewicz, R.J. and Stright, M.J.
1989Archaeological Sites in the Drowned Tertiary Karst Region of the Eastern Gulf of Mexico. Underwater Archaeology Proceedings from the Society for Historical Archaeology Conference, edited by Arnold, J. Barto III, pp 25-31. Published by the Society for Historical Archaeology, Michael, Ronald, .Series editor.
Faught, Michael K., Downum, C.E., Gittings, J. and Volkes, A.
1989 Project Origins and the Use of Archaeology as a Matrix for Job Skills Training. In Proceedings of the American Society for Conservation Archaeology, edited Rogge, A.Eugene., pp 59-66
Faught, Michael K.
1980Better than Tree Rings? Proceedings of the Eighth International Congress for the Study of the PreColumbian Cultures of the Lesser Antilles, edited by R.C. Goodwin ASU Anthropology Research Papers No. 22, pp 214213
CRM and Program in UW Archaeology Reports, FSU (Panamerican Reports since 2004 on request)
Faught, M.K., J.P. Kilgo and M. Damour
2001Report on the Shipwreck and Biological Survey Conducted Near Fleming Key, 17-20 March 1998. Program in Underwater Archaeology Research Reports No. 7. (27 pp) (
Faught, M.K., M. Damour and T.P. Stanton
2001Preliminary Report for the Survey of Man of War Harbor, Fleming Key in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. Program in Underwater Archaeology Research Reports No. 8. (15 pp)
Latvis, Joseph and Michael K. Faught
2001PaleoAucilla Prehistory Project: Underwater Prehistoric Archaeology in Apalachee Bay 2000 Interim Report. Program in Underwater Archaeology Research Reports No. 13 (72 pages)
Faught, M.and K Latvis, J.M..
2000Report and Analysis of the Garcon Point Bridge Side Scan Sonar Survey and Diver Inspection Conducted May 4-6th, 2000. Program in Underwater Archaeology, Forensic Applications of Underwater Archaeological Science (14 pp)
Goodwin, R. Christopher, Frank Vento, Milstead-Post, Pelletier, Jean B., Michael Faught, and Larkin A. Post
2000Submerged Cultural Resources Evaluation of Fifteen Geomorphic Anomalies, Florida and Federal Waters, Within the Gulfstream Natural Gas Pipeline Corridor. R. Christopher Goodwin & Associates, Inc. Frederick, Maryland (100 pp)
Latvis, J.M. and Faught, M.K.
2000Side Scan Sonar Survey of Selected Artificial Reef Sites. Program in Underwater Archaeology Resource Monitoring Applications of Underwater Archaeological Science (14 pp)
Faught, M.K. and J.M. Latvis
2000PaleoAucilla Prehistory Project: Underwater Prehistoric Archaeology in Apalachee Bay 1999 Report. Program in Underwater Archaeology Research Reports No. 1 (77 pp)
Goodwin, R. Christopher, Michael K. Faught, Richard Vidutis, and Frank Vento
1999Submerged Cultural Resources Research Design and Work Plan for the Gulf Stream Pipeline Project, Tampa Bay and Offshore, Florida. R. Christopher Goodwin & Associates, Inc. Frederick Maryland.
Mabry, Jonathan B. Michael K. Faught and Freeman, Andrea
1998Paleoindian and Archaic Sites in Arizona, Center for Desert Archaeology, Tucson, Technical Report No. 97-7. Prepared for the State Historic “Preservation Office, Arizona State Parks, Phoenix. (150 pp)
Smith, Roger, James Dunbar, and Michael K. Faught.
1997An Underwater Archaeological Survey in the Santa Fe River, Florida, July 1997. Florida Archaeological Reports Number 36, Bureau of Archaeological Research, Tallahassee (71pp)
Faught, Michael K. and Plaskett, Keith
1996Surveys and Assessments of Tugboat E.E. Simpson (8BY886), Tugboat Chickasaw, Minesweeper USS Strength, and Steamship Vamar. Reports Prepared for the Bureau of Archaeological Research, Tallahassee
Smith, Roger; Faught, Michael K. and Plaskett, Keith
1996A Proposal to Establish the Wreck of the Tarpon as a State Underwater Archaeological Preserve. Prepared for the Bureau of Archaeological Research, Tallahassee
Stokes, A.V., Faught, Michael K., Pochurek, J., and Rainey, H.
1996An Underwater Archaeological Resource Assessment of Fanning Springs in Levy County, Florida. Prepared for the Department of Environmental Protection, Office of Greenways and Trails by Southeastern Archaeological Research, Inc. (82 pp)
Michael K. Faught
1995Archaeological Testing, Limited Data Recovery and an "In Place" Site Preservation Plan for the Madera Reserve Development in Green Valley, Pima County, Arizona. Archaeological Report No. 2 Old Pueblo Archaeological Center, Tucson Arizona (Series No. 94-2) (100 pp)
Faught, Michael K. and Latvis, Joseph M.
1995Final Report of Investigations, Apalachee Bay, Florida: 1986 Through 1992. Prepared for the Bureau of Archaeological Research, Florida Department of State, Tallahassee
Thiel, Homer, Faught , Michael K., and Bayman, James
1995Beneath the Streets: Prehistoric, Spanish, and American Period Archaeology in Downtown Tucson. Center for Desert Archaeology Technical Report No. 94-11 (309 pp)
Faught, Michael K.
1992Report of the 1991 Offshore Archaeology Project. Open File Report, Bureau of Archaeological Research, Tallahassee, Florida.
Faught, Michael K.
1990Report of the 1989 Offshore Field Session. Open File Report, Bureau of Archaeological Research, Tallahassee, Florida.
Faught, Michael K.
1989Preliminary Report on the Excavation of the Econfina Channel site: An inundated Archaic Lithic Quarry in the Apalachee Bay, Florida. Open File Report, Bureau of Archaeological Research, Tallahassee.
Kelso, Gerald K and Faught, Michael K.
1982Palynology and Prehistoric Diet at Five Settlements In Cholla Project Archaeology, Volume 1, CRMS Archaeological Series pp 145154, J. Jefferson. Reid, ed.
Editing - Program In Underwater Archaeology Research Report Series
Tobon, Maria Camila and Ryan Pendleton
2002Report of 2001 Field Operations, PaleoAucilla Prehistory Project, Underwater Prehistoric Archaeology in Apalachee Bay, June 25th through August 3rd 2001. Program in Underwater Archaeology Research Reports No. 15 (70 pp) Series editor Michael K. Faught (
Grayson, Ronald, Michael Arbuthnot, and Gokay Zuleyha
2001 Report on the Shipwreck and Biological Survey Conducted on the Coast of Flemming Key, March 10-12, 2001. Program in Underwater Archaeology Research Reports No. 12 (25 pp) Edited by Michael K. Faught (
Marks, Brian
2001 City of Hawkinsville Archaeological Assessment. Program in Underwater Archaeology Research Reports No. 11 (15 pp) Series editor Michael K. Faught,(
Damour, Melanie and Christopher Horrell
2001Dog and St. George Islands Shipwreck Survey 2001 Report. Research Reports No. 14 (70 pp). Series editor Michael K. Faught, (
Horlings, Rachel and Marc Galloway
2001The Wreck of the SS Tarpon. Program in Underwater Archaeology Research Reports No. 16 Series editor Michael K. Faught (16 pp),(
Damour, Melanie and Christopher Horrell
2001Dog Island Shipwreck Survey Report of Field Operation: 26 June – 4 August,2000. Program in Underwater Archaeology Research Reports No. 10. Series editor Michael K. Faught. (16 pp), (
Meide, Chuck, James McClean, and Edward Wiser
2000Dog Island Shipwreck Survey 1999: Report of Historical and Archaeological Investigations, Program in Underwater Archaeology Research Reports No. 4 (252 pp). Edited by M.K. Faught, J. McKinnon, W. Hoffman, and J.M. Latvis, (
Review Of Book Manuscripts, Article Manuscripts, and Grant Proposals
2014Review of 1 proposal for NSF, article for Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
2011Review of 1 proposal for National Science Foundation, 1 American Antiquity, 1 Journal of Island and Coastal Research.
2010NOAA Ocean Exploration Grant Review Committee member
2010Review of article submission for Journal of Archaeological Research
2009NOAA Ocean Exploration Grant Review Committee member
2008Review of 2 proposals for National Science Foundation
2007Review of 2 articles submitted for American Antiquity
2005Review of National Science Foundation proposal
2002NOAA Ocean Exploration Grant Review Committee member
2002Review of article submission for American Antiquity
2000Review of proposal for UW archaeological project for the National Science Foundation
1999Review of Proposed Maritime History and Maritime Archaeology Centre (5 million pound proposal from University of Hull, England) Joint Infrastructure Fund, England.
1998Review of Archaeology and the Social History of Ships, a manuscript by Richard A. Gould, published by Cambridge University Press in 2000
1995Review of article submission for American Antiquity
Published Reviews
1998Review of The Last Voyage of El Nuevo Constante: The Wreck and Recovery of An Eighteenth Century Spanish Ship Off the Louisiana Coast. Society for Archaeological Sciences Bulletin, 20(3/4):20-21.
1997Review of Layers of History: The Archaeology of Heritage Square, The Historic Archaeology of Heritage Square and The Prehistoric Archaeology of Heritage Square for American Antiquity 62(3):575-577.
Invited Articles for Published Newsletters
Faught ,Michael K.
1999A Testing of Side Scan Sonar Technology in the Aucilla River: A Cooperative Venture by the ARPP and FSU's Program in Underwater Archaeology. Aucilla River Times 12(1) 1999
Faught ,Michael K.
1999PaleoAucilla Prehistory -- "Clovis Underwater 98."Aucilla River Times 12(1)
Faught ,Michael K.
1998Universities Share Commitment to Underwater Archaeology. Aucilla River Times 11(1):5
Faught ,Michael K.
1998Underwater Archaeology, Paleoindian origins, and histories of Settlement. Aucilla River Times 11(1):11-12
Faught, Michael K.
1995Before Written History: Underwater Archaeology on Prehistoric Sites. Archaeology and Public Education 7(2):6
Faught, Michael K., Theil, J. Homer, and Bayman, James. M.
1993Archaeology in the Heart of Downtown Tucson. Archaeology in Tucson, Newsletter of the Center for Desert Archaeology, Vol. 7, No. 3, 1-5. With J. Homer Thiel and James M. Bayman.
Web Site Presentations
Archaeological Research Cooperative
North American Paleoindian Projectile Point Database
Personal Web page:
Principles of Submerged Prehistoric Sites:
Sustainable Seas
AWARDS, GRANTS, AND CONTRACTS
U/W Field School (FSU) awarded Register of Professional Archaeologists (ROPA) certification 2002-2003
Awarded membership in the Society of Professional Archaeologists (SOPA, now ROPA) 1996
Grants Funded
2001-2002Division of Historical Resources Special Category Grant PaleoAucilla Prehistory Project $200,000
2000-2001Division of Historical Resources Special Category Grant PaleoAucilla Prehistory Project $200,000
1999-2000Division of Historical Resources Special Category Grant: PaleoAucilla Prehistory Project $175,000
2002-2003Division of Historical Resources Survey and Planning Grant: Dog Island Shipwreck Survey $ 27,450
2001-2002Division of Historical Resources Survey and Planning Grant: Dog Island Shipwreck Survey $ 23,865
1999Division of Historical Resources Survey and Planning Grant: Dog Island Shipwreck Survey $ 19,000
1998-2001Florida Institute of Oceanography, ship time grants ($ equivalent) - R.V. Bellows $ 66,000
1998Smithsonian Institution Short-term Visitor Funding, May 1998. $ 2,000
1992EARTHWATCH - "Clovis Underwater" summer 1992 $ 11,000
1991National Science Foundation - Dissertation Improvement Grant $ 12,000
1987-1993Fitch Fund for Education, Texas Communities Foundation unrestricted research grants $ 50,000
1986Educational Fund Scholarship - Department of Anthropology, U of A
1977-1979 Tuition Scholarships, Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona
Resource Management Contracts (Program in UW Archaeology, FSU)
2002Baskerville-Donovan Engineering St. Andrew Bay Obstruction Survey $ 5,000
2002Contract with Baskerville-Donovan Engineering Martin Lake Subbottom Profile Survey $ 5,000
2002Contract with Mid-Atlantic Technology St. John’s River Subbottom Profile Survey $ 2,500
2000Figg Engineering - Forensic Side Scan Sonar Survey Of Garcon Point Bridge $ 11,500
TEACHING EXPERIENCES
I developed and registered five new courses at Florida State University (marked *), also all but one (World Prehistory) of the following classes included Graduate and Undergraduate enrollment)
World PrehistoryFall2003 (3 hr, 100 students)
North American Archaeology Spring 2003 (3 hr, 40 students)
Paleoindian Archaeology *Fall 1998, Fall 2000, Fall 2002 (3 hr, 20 students)
Archaeological Method and TheoryFall 1999 (3 hr, 30 students)
Geoarchaeology*Spring 2001 (3 hr credit, average 24 students)
Chipped Stone Analysis*Spring 1999, Spring 2002 (3 hr credit 7-10 students)
Conservation Archaeology *Fall 1998, Spring 2000 (3 hr credit, average 10 students)
Public ArchaeologyFall 1998 (3 hr credit, 10 students)
Underwater ArchaeologySpring 1998, Spring 1999, Spring 2000, Fall 2000, Fall 2001 (3 hr credit 25students)
Techniques in UW Site ResearchSpring 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 (6 hr credit, restricted to 8 students)