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 Martin has a Bachelor of Arts degree in anthropology, specializing
in archaeology, from the University of California at San Diego
and a Master of Arts degree in anthropology, specializing
in archaeology, from San Diego State University. He also completed
Ph.D. degree course work in archaeology and cultural resource
management at Arizona State University. Martin is a Registered
Professional Archaeologist (ID#: 15517).
He began his professional career in archaeology as a staff
member in 1969 and 1970 on a major Pennsylvania State University
project involving Mayan sites in Guatemala. From 1974 through
1985, he worked for the United States Forest Service as the
Forest Archaeologist for the Tonto National Forest in Arizona.
Between 1976 and 1985, Martin provided archaeological damage
assessment expertise in the investigation of approximately
100 Forest Service archaeological violation cases, over 20
of which resulted in criminal charges. He testified as an
expert witness in United States District Court for the District
of Arizona in four Archaeological Resources Protection Act
(ARPA) cases. Also during this time, Martin was a course developer
for the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center’s “Archaeological
Resources Protection Training Program” and served as
the archaeologist instructor for this program beginning in
May of 1983.
In 1985, Martin left the Forest Service and formed a private
archaeological contracting firm, Archaeological Resource Investigations
(ARI). ARI specializes in training and consulting on archaeological
law enforcement and archaeological damage assessment. Since
becoming involved in training on these two aspects of archaeological
resource protection in 1979, Martin has been the archaeologist
instructor in over 200 classes with over 7,000 participants.
In 2000, ARI developed two new state of the art classes, a
basic ARPA class entitled “Archaeological Law Enforcement”
for law enforcement officers, archaeologists and prosecutors
and an advanced ARPA class entitled “Archaeological
Damage Assessment” for archaeologists, the only class
of its kind in existence. To date in 2006, there have been
31 offerings of the Archaeological Law Enforcement class with
969 participants and 18 offerings of the Archaeological Damage
Assessment class with 269 participants.
Since 1985, Martin has been consulted on over 200 archaeological
damage assessments. He began carrying out contract archaeological
damage assessment work in 1986. In 1992, he prepared the monetary
damage assessment for archaeological injuries resulting from
the Exxon-Valdez Oil Spill under a contract with the Alaska
Regional Office of the National Park Service. Martin is currently
involved in contract archaeological damage assessment work
for two major civil cases.
Martin is a past president of the Arizona Archaeological Council. He is a co-author of the book Archaeological Resource Protection published by The Preservation Press in 1992. Martin received two Special Achievement Awards from the Society of Professional Archaeologists for “contributions in the area of Archaeological Resources Protection Act program development” in 1990 and for “co-authorship of the book Archaeological Resource Protection” in 1993. He has been the Chair of the Society for American Archaeology’s (SAA) Subcommittee on Archaeological Law Enforcement (formerly a task force) since it was formed in 1996.
Between 2002 and 2003, Martin and Wayne Dance, Assistant
United States Attorney for the District of Utah, organized
an SAA professional conference on the determination of archaeological
value, the critical monetary determination in archaeological
damage assessment for criminal and civil ARPA cases. This
conference, co-chaired by Martin and Wayne, was held in held
in March of 2003. It resulted in the development of the SAA’s
“Professional Standards for the Determination of Archaeological
Value” that were formally adopted in November of 2003
(these standards are available at the society’s website:
www.saa.org). An article by Martin on the standards is included in the book Presenting Archaeology in Court published by Alta Mira Press in 2006. He also is the author of the Archaeological Resource Damage Assessment: Legal Basis and Methods published as National Park Service Technical Brief 20 in 2007. Martin recently worked with the Submerged Resources Center of the National Park Service on the development of a new submerged cultural resources law enforcement class. The first offering of this class was presented in May of 2006.
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