Scott Byram conducts Ground-Penetrating Radar survey at archaeological and historical sites primarily in California. He is based in the San Francisco Bay Area where he is a Research Affiliate with UC Berkeley Archaeological Research Facility. Byram’s clients and collaborators include other archaeologists, Native American tribes, environmental planners, and agency land managers on cultural resources projects and grant-funded research, using state of the art GPR equipment including the Stream-C multichannel system manufactured by IDS Georadar and the GSSI SIR4000 digital single channel system.
Dr. Byram has investigated over three hundred archaeological sites in California and the Pacific Northwest. His extensive research on coastal and high desert landscape archaeology and excavation at numerous site types in the western U.S. provides him with a perspective on stratigraphy and features indicated in California GPR data (Byram and Sunseri 2021). His expertise in historical landscape changes, as demonstrated in his dissertation research and his 2013 UC Berkeley book Triangulating Archaeological Landscapes, the U.S. Coast Survey in California, 1850-1895 allows him to assess the context of historical sites and features. Byram also researches prehistoric technologies, his primary focus for the first half of his career, including lithic technology and intertidal fishing systems. His current focus with Kent Lightfoot and Jun Sunseri is on Clovis weapon technology in Pleistocene megafauna hunting is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4832350
Dr. Byram has performed ground-penetrating radar projects and trainings for several universities including UC Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz, Cal State Chico, Cal State Sonoma, Santa Clara University, Stanford University, San Diego State University, St. Mary’s College, the University of Louisiana, SUNY Binghamton, and Southern Oregon University. Byram has conducted GPR projects in collaboration with the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria, San Manuel Band of Mission Indians, Villages of Lisjan, Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria, North Fork Mono Tribe, Northeastern Pomo Band, Ohlone Community, Amah Mutsun Tribe, Esselen Tribe, Mooretown Rancheria, Tubatulabal Tribe, United Auburn Indian Community, the Coquille Indian Tribe, Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians, the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians, and the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community. Byram Archaeological Consulting, LLC was established in 2006, originally in Oregon and now based in California.
Recent Articles:
PLOS One Journal Preprint (undergoing revisions) Byram, Scott and Lightfoot, Kent and Sunseri, Jun,
Clovis Points and Foreshafts Under Braced Weapon Compression: Modeling Pleistocene Megafauna Encounters with a Lithic Pike (May 18, 2024). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4832350 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4832350
2024 Lightening Archaeology’s Footprint, pp. 107-115 in Inclusion, Transformation and Humility in North American Archaeology: Essays and other “Great Stuff” Inspired by Kent G. Lightfoot. Edited by Seth Mallios, Sara Gonzalez, Michael Grone, Kathleen Hull, Peter Nelson, and Stephen Silliman. Berghahn Books, New York.
2021 Principles and Practice of Investigating Buried Adobe Features with Ground-Penetrating Radar. Remote Sensing 13(24):4980 by Scott Byram and Jun Ueno Sunseri. https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/13/24/4980/htm
2020 Sanchez, G.M.; Grone, M.A.; Apodaca, A.J.; Byram, R.S.; Lopez, V.; Jewett, R.A. Sensing the Past: Perspectives on Collaborative Archaeology and Ground Penetrating Radar Techniques from Coastal California. Remote Sensing 13:285. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13020285
Additional articles and monographs by Byram can be found at https://berkeley.academia.edu/ScottByram https://works.bepress.com/byram/ https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6tt003pf
Dr. Byram has investigated over three hundred archaeological sites in California and the Pacific Northwest. His extensive research on coastal and high desert landscape archaeology and excavation at numerous site types in the western U.S. provides him with a perspective on stratigraphy and features indicated in California GPR data (Byram and Sunseri 2021). His expertise in historical landscape changes, as demonstrated in his dissertation research and his 2013 UC Berkeley book Triangulating Archaeological Landscapes, the U.S. Coast Survey in California, 1850-1895 allows him to assess the context of historical sites and features. Byram also researches prehistoric technologies, his primary focus for the first half of his career, including lithic technology and intertidal fishing systems. His current focus with Kent Lightfoot and Jun Sunseri is on Clovis weapon technology in Pleistocene megafauna hunting is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4832350
Dr. Byram has performed ground-penetrating radar projects and trainings for several universities including UC Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz, Cal State Chico, Cal State Sonoma, Santa Clara University, Stanford University, San Diego State University, St. Mary’s College, the University of Louisiana, SUNY Binghamton, and Southern Oregon University. Byram has conducted GPR projects in collaboration with the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria, San Manuel Band of Mission Indians, Villages of Lisjan, Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria, North Fork Mono Tribe, Northeastern Pomo Band, Ohlone Community, Amah Mutsun Tribe, Esselen Tribe, Mooretown Rancheria, Tubatulabal Tribe, United Auburn Indian Community, the Coquille Indian Tribe, Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians, the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians, and the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community. Byram Archaeological Consulting, LLC was established in 2006, originally in Oregon and now based in California.
Recent Articles:
PLOS One Journal Preprint (undergoing revisions) Byram, Scott and Lightfoot, Kent and Sunseri, Jun,
Clovis Points and Foreshafts Under Braced Weapon Compression: Modeling Pleistocene Megafauna Encounters with a Lithic Pike (May 18, 2024). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4832350 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4832350
2024 Lightening Archaeology’s Footprint, pp. 107-115 in Inclusion, Transformation and Humility in North American Archaeology: Essays and other “Great Stuff” Inspired by Kent G. Lightfoot. Edited by Seth Mallios, Sara Gonzalez, Michael Grone, Kathleen Hull, Peter Nelson, and Stephen Silliman. Berghahn Books, New York.
2021 Principles and Practice of Investigating Buried Adobe Features with Ground-Penetrating Radar. Remote Sensing 13(24):4980 by Scott Byram and Jun Ueno Sunseri. https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/13/24/4980/htm
2020 Sanchez, G.M.; Grone, M.A.; Apodaca, A.J.; Byram, R.S.; Lopez, V.; Jewett, R.A. Sensing the Past: Perspectives on Collaborative Archaeology and Ground Penetrating Radar Techniques from Coastal California. Remote Sensing 13:285. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13020285
Additional articles and monographs by Byram can be found at https://berkeley.academia.edu/ScottByram https://works.bepress.com/byram/ https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6tt003pf
Other Publications by Scott Byram
2018 Geophysical Investigation of Mission San Francisco Solano, Sonoma, California. Historical Archaeology 52(2):242–263 by Scott Byram, Kent Lightfoot, Rob Cuthrell, Peter Nelson, Jun Ueno Sunseri, Roberta A. Jewett, Breck Parkman, Nico Tripcevich
2018 Panich, Lee M., Tsim D. Schneider, and R. Scott Byram. Finding Mid-19th Century Native Settlements: Cartographic and Archaeological Evidence from Central California. Journal of Field Archaeology, 43(2):152-165.
2017 Site Interiography and Geophysical Scanning: Interpreting the Texture and Form of Archaeological Deposits with Ground-Penetrating Radar. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 71:1-25, by Jun Ueno Sunseri and Scott Byram, on line at http://rdcu.be/pwM5
2013 Triangulating Archaeological Landscapes: The U.S. Coast Survey in California. Volume 65 in Contributions of the Archaeological Research Facility, University of California, Berkeley.
2009 Shell Mounds and Shell Roads: The Destruction of Oregon Coast Middens for Early Road Surfacing. Current Archaeological Happenings in Oregon 34(1):6-14. http://works.bepress.com/byram/
2008 Colonial Power and Indigenous Justice: Fur Trade Violence and Its Aftermath in Yaquina Narrative. Oregon Historical Quarterly, 109(3). http://works.bepress.com/byram/
2007 Editor, Special Section: Tsunamis, Earthquakes and Indigenous Communities of the Oregon Coast. Oregon Historical Quarterly, 108(2). http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ohq/108.2/byram.html
2005 The Work of a Nation: Richard D. Cutts and the Coast Survey Map of Fort Clatsop. Oregon Historical Quarterly 105(2):254-271. http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ohq/106.2/byram.html
2002 Scoquelle, Coquelle, and Coquille. In Changing Landscapes, Sustaining Traditions. Edited by Donald B. Ivy and R. Scott Byram. Coquille Indian Tribe, North Bend, Oregon.
2002 Changing Landscapes, Sustaining Traditions. Edited by Donald B. Ivy and R. Scott Byram. Coquille Indian Tribe, North Bend, Oregon.
2001 Ourigan: Wealth of the Northwest Coast. Scott Byram and David G. Lewis, Oregon Historical Quarterly 100(2). http://works.bepress.com/byram/
2001 Coquille Cultural Heritage and Wetland Archaeology. In Enduring Records: Proceedings of the 1999 Wetland Archaeological Research Project Conference, edited by Barbara Purdy, Oxbow Books, England.
2000 Wetland Landscapes and Archaeological Sites in the Coquille Estuary, Middle Holocene to Recent Times. Scott Byram and Robert L. Witter. In Changing Landscapes: Proceedings of the Third Annual Coquille Indian Tribe Cultural Preservation Conference, 1999. Edited by Robert Losey. Coquille Indian Tribe, North Bend, Oregon. http://works.bepress.com/byram/
1999 Newberry Crater Debitage. Scott Byram, Thomas Connolly, and Robert Musil. In Newberry Crater: A Ten-Thousand-Year Record of Human Occupation and Environmental Change in the Basin-Plateau Borderlands, Thomas Connolly. University of Utah Anthropological Papers 121.
1998 Fishing Weirs in Oregon Coast Estuaries. In Hidden Dimensions, the Cultural Significance of Wetland Archaeology, edited by Kathryn Bernick, University of British Columbia Press.
1998 The Development of Maritime Adaptations on the Southern Northwest Coast of North America. Jon M. Erlandson, Mark A. Tveskov, and R. Scott Byram. Arctic Anthropology 35(1):6-22.
1998 Oregon Wet Site Basketry: A Review of Structural Types. Thomas Connolly and Scott Byram. In Contributions to Oregon Archaeology, Albert C. Oetting, ed.. Assoc. of Oregon Archaeo. Occas. Papers #6.
2018 Geophysical Investigation of Mission San Francisco Solano, Sonoma, California. Historical Archaeology 52(2):242–263 by Scott Byram, Kent Lightfoot, Rob Cuthrell, Peter Nelson, Jun Ueno Sunseri, Roberta A. Jewett, Breck Parkman, Nico Tripcevich
2018 Panich, Lee M., Tsim D. Schneider, and R. Scott Byram. Finding Mid-19th Century Native Settlements: Cartographic and Archaeological Evidence from Central California. Journal of Field Archaeology, 43(2):152-165.
2017 Site Interiography and Geophysical Scanning: Interpreting the Texture and Form of Archaeological Deposits with Ground-Penetrating Radar. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 71:1-25, by Jun Ueno Sunseri and Scott Byram, on line at http://rdcu.be/pwM5
2013 Triangulating Archaeological Landscapes: The U.S. Coast Survey in California. Volume 65 in Contributions of the Archaeological Research Facility, University of California, Berkeley.
2009 Shell Mounds and Shell Roads: The Destruction of Oregon Coast Middens for Early Road Surfacing. Current Archaeological Happenings in Oregon 34(1):6-14. http://works.bepress.com/byram/
2008 Colonial Power and Indigenous Justice: Fur Trade Violence and Its Aftermath in Yaquina Narrative. Oregon Historical Quarterly, 109(3). http://works.bepress.com/byram/
2007 Editor, Special Section: Tsunamis, Earthquakes and Indigenous Communities of the Oregon Coast. Oregon Historical Quarterly, 108(2). http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ohq/108.2/byram.html
2005 The Work of a Nation: Richard D. Cutts and the Coast Survey Map of Fort Clatsop. Oregon Historical Quarterly 105(2):254-271. http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ohq/106.2/byram.html
2002 Scoquelle, Coquelle, and Coquille. In Changing Landscapes, Sustaining Traditions. Edited by Donald B. Ivy and R. Scott Byram. Coquille Indian Tribe, North Bend, Oregon.
2002 Changing Landscapes, Sustaining Traditions. Edited by Donald B. Ivy and R. Scott Byram. Coquille Indian Tribe, North Bend, Oregon.
2001 Ourigan: Wealth of the Northwest Coast. Scott Byram and David G. Lewis, Oregon Historical Quarterly 100(2). http://works.bepress.com/byram/
2001 Coquille Cultural Heritage and Wetland Archaeology. In Enduring Records: Proceedings of the 1999 Wetland Archaeological Research Project Conference, edited by Barbara Purdy, Oxbow Books, England.
2000 Wetland Landscapes and Archaeological Sites in the Coquille Estuary, Middle Holocene to Recent Times. Scott Byram and Robert L. Witter. In Changing Landscapes: Proceedings of the Third Annual Coquille Indian Tribe Cultural Preservation Conference, 1999. Edited by Robert Losey. Coquille Indian Tribe, North Bend, Oregon. http://works.bepress.com/byram/
1999 Newberry Crater Debitage. Scott Byram, Thomas Connolly, and Robert Musil. In Newberry Crater: A Ten-Thousand-Year Record of Human Occupation and Environmental Change in the Basin-Plateau Borderlands, Thomas Connolly. University of Utah Anthropological Papers 121.
1998 Fishing Weirs in Oregon Coast Estuaries. In Hidden Dimensions, the Cultural Significance of Wetland Archaeology, edited by Kathryn Bernick, University of British Columbia Press.
1998 The Development of Maritime Adaptations on the Southern Northwest Coast of North America. Jon M. Erlandson, Mark A. Tveskov, and R. Scott Byram. Arctic Anthropology 35(1):6-22.
1998 Oregon Wet Site Basketry: A Review of Structural Types. Thomas Connolly and Scott Byram. In Contributions to Oregon Archaeology, Albert C. Oetting, ed.. Assoc. of Oregon Archaeo. Occas. Papers #6.