Ed Stine, Principal Investigator
Ed Stine received a B.A. in Anthropology with a minor in History in 1976. In 1981 he completed an M.F.A. in Ceramics at the University of North Dakota. While completing his graduate work, Ed taught at the University. He specializes in traditional Native American pottery manufacturing techniques and has made pottery for the On-A-Slant Indian Village's interpretive program as well as for the Fort Clark Museum. Ed has also conducted pottery workshops with the Three Affiliated Tribes at Fort Berthold, North Dakota. He has been working professionally in archaeology since 1985 and has over 15 years of experience with North Dakota archaeology as well as experience in other states including Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Texas, and South Dakota. His past projects include historic sites such as the Central Barracks at Fort Lincoln, excavations at the Tremont Hotel (one of Denver's first brick lodges), and early lumber and prospecting camps in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Ed also has an extensive background regarding prehistoric sites including an Early Archaic bison kill site at Granite Falls, Minnesota; an Agate Basin bison kill site on Beacon Island, North Dakota; and a Knife River flint quarry site near Hazen, North Dakota. He has led numerous large and small scale projects ranging from multi-state pipelines (survey, testing, data recovery, and technical writing) to wind turbine farms and Department of Transportation sponsored inventory/testing projects. His resume contains all facets of project management including preparation of proposals, writing, reviewing, editing, along with assembling reports, and directing projects in the field. Ed has a long history with Metcalf: working as an archaeological technician in the 1980s, a staff archaeologist in the 1990s, and as principal investigator for the Bismarck office in the 2000s.
estine@metcalfarchaeology.com