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Kelly McGuire, Far Western President

Kaely Colligan · July 31, 2019 ·

We are pleased to announce that Kelly McGuire has been unanimously elected President of Far Western. Kelly is a Founding Partner and served as Chief Financial Officer through the first 40 years of our operations; a milestone anniversary reached in 2019! Kelly embodies Far Western’s core principle of providing high-quality cultural resources services backed by discipline-leading research and peer-reviewed publication.

While managing cultural resource compliance projects for a variety of clients and industry sectors, Kelly continues to provide important contributions to the study of California and Great Basin hunter-gatherer adaptations and human behavioral ecology.

We look forward to Kelly’s leadership in his new role.

FW Historical Archaeology Program

Kaely Colligan · May 14, 2019 ·

Far Western is pleased to highlight our expanding Historical Archaeology Program.

Historical Archaeology is the study of material culture supported by written documents and other historical evidence. In the Americas this coincides with periods of European and Native American contact and subsequent colonization, urbanization, industrialization, and globalization. Written, oral, and archaeological data provide different types of information, and historical archaeologists work to weave these together—filling gaps, exploring nuances, and providing a better understanding of past lifeways and historical developments. Working to connect the past and the present, historical archaeologists uncover and explore the material traces of life in the emerging modern world.

To meet the goals of cultural resources management and historic preservation compliance, Far Western historical archaeologists employ a wide range of archaeological and historical research methods to identify, evaluate, and treat historic-period sites, structures, features, and artifacts.

Historical Archaeology Team:

Cassidy DeBaker, MA

David Hyde, PhD

Vickie Clay, MS

Allen McCabe, BS

New Far Western Officers

Kaely Colligan · February 26, 2019 ·

The Far Western Board of Directors elects officers every two years. The new slate of officers, elected at the February 2019 Principal’s Retreat, is instrumental in both the long-term guidance and daily leadership of Far Western.

Chief Financial Officer: Paul Brandy. This is Paul’s first term as CFO, after serving as Secretary for four years.

Secretary: Adie Whitaker. This is Adie’s first term as a Far Western officer.

Newly appointed officers: Adie Whitaker, Secretary (left) and Paul Brandy, CFO (right)

The Board unanimously re-elected Kim Carpenter for a third term as President. Lin Wang has served for many years as our Finance Manager and was re-elected as Treasurer.

After several decades as an officer, Kelly McGuire will be stepping down as CFO, passing the books to Paul. Kelly will continue to provide leadership as Principal and Project Manager throughout Far Western. Thank you to Kelly for the many years of diligence and guidance as a Far Western officer.

Far Western receives the Presidential Special Achievement Award

Kaely Colligan · December 27, 2018 ·

Salt Lake City, Utah – Far Western received the Presidential Special Achievement Award for Excellence and their Numerous Significant Contributions to Archaeology and CRM in the Great Basin and Beyond. The award was announced at the biennial Great Basin Anthropological Conference in October.

There are those who do what needs to be done to meet the law or the contract and those who go the extra mile and strive to make a contribution that influences both theory and method, and ultimately our understanding of the past, as well as sharing our story with the public. This year’s Presidential awardees exemplify the best in Cultural Resource Management. – Kirk Halford, GBAA President

We thank the Great Basin Anthropological Association for this honor. We dedicate this to our Far Western team, everyone contributes to this kind recognition.

Far Western in Science Magazine

Kaely Colligan · June 6, 2018 ·

Ancient human parallel lineages within North America contributed to a coastal expansion

BY C. L. SCHEIB, HONGJIE LI, TARIQ DESAI, VIVIAN LINK, CHRISTOPHER KENDALL, GENEVIEVE DEWAR, PETER WILLIAM GRIFFITH, ALEXANDER MÖRSEBURG, JOHN R. JOHNSON, AMIEE POTTER, SUSAN L. KERR, PHILLIP ENDICOTT, JOHN LINDO, MARC HABER, YALI XUE, CHRIS TYLER-SMITH, MANJINDER S. SANDHU, JOSEPH G. LORENZ, TORI D. RANDALL, ZUZANA FALTYSKOVA, LUCA PAGANI, PETR DANECEK, TAMSIN C. O’CONNELL, PATRICIA MARTZ, ALAN S. BORAAS, BRIAN F. BYRD, ALAN LEVENTHAL, ROSEMARY CAMBRA, RONALD WILLIAMSON, LOUIS LESAGE, BRIAN HOLGUIN, ERNESTINE YGNACIO-DE SOTO, JOHNTOMMY ROSAS, MAIT METSPALU, JAY T. STOCK, ANDREA MANICA, AYLWYN SCALLY, DANIEL WEGMANN, RIPAN S. MALHI, TOOMAS KIVISILD

SCIENCE01 JUN 2018 : 1024-1027 Read Full Article Here

Two parallel, terminal Pleistocene lineages gave rise to Californian, Central, and South American populations.