John D. Hall (MA, RPA) joins SWCA as Cultural Resources Director. In this role, John will provide leadership, oversight, and mentorship for over 30 archaeologists and architectural historians in the Austin office.
John received his Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology from Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado, in 1999, and his Master of Arts in Archaeology and Heritage from the University of Leicester in 2010. With over 25 years of experience in archaeology, John has completed projects in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Utah, and Washington.
Prior to joining SWCA, John worked at Mesa Verde National Park from 2000 to 2002, Statistical Research Inc. from 2002 to 2017, and most recently at Terracon Consultants, Inc. from 2017 to 2024. While at Terracon, John served as the Archaeology Group Lead for their Austin, Texas office, overseeing cultural resource management projects throughout Texas and the Western U.S. His expertise includes the archaeology, history, and ecology of the U.S. Southwest, stone artifact technologies, landscape archaeology, geoarchaeology, spatial analysis, ethnoarchaeology, and settlement and subsistence systems. He is particularly interested in Archaic and Ceramic Period economic adaptations and the adoption of agriculture in the prehistoric U.S. Southwest.