Barry South

Project Manager

Barry South holds Bachelors’ and Masters’ degrees in Anthropology from Western Washington University.  While attending school as an undergraduate, Mr. South was responsible for running the archeology lab at Western Washington University, including analyzing and accessioning artifacts, developing an archeological database, and leading the field crew during summer field school sessions.

While working towards his M.A., he was employed for five consecutive field seasons for the Unites States Forest Service as Lead Archeological Technician.  Mr. South was responsible for planning, organizing and executing all aspects of field work, in addition to pre-field research, lithic artifact analysis, and report documentation for the Central Zone of the Willamette National Forest.  He is the co-author of many cultural resource reports on prehistoric site investigations.  Mr. South has extensive experience in directing a field crew of one to eight people during pedestrian survey and test excavation activities.

While employed by the forest service, Mr. South was given the opportunity to plan and execute an intensive survey and analysis of surface artifacts at a major prehistoric lithic resource procurement area in the Three Sisters Wilderness in the central Cascade Range of Oregon.  Mr. South was responsible for all aspects of the project, from planning the survey to performing the lithic analysis in the field, and dealing with the logistics of working at a site in a National Wilderness seven miles and from the nearest road.  Over ten thousand flakes were analyzed from the site.  The data were compared to several other sites in the region and this was used as the basis of Mr. South’s Masters thesis.

Since joining Earth Search in 1999, Mr. South has served as Project Manager for Phase I surveys in Orleans, DeSoto, and St. Landry parishes.  He also played a key role during ESI’s investigations on Grand Terre by mapping both the Fort Livingston and the Forstall sites.  Mr. South served as Project Manager for the I-49 Expansion Project in St. Mary, St. Martin, Iberia, and Lafayette parishes.  This project includes supervision of a crew of 10 for both intensive cultural resources survey and NRHP testing as well as standing structure survey. 

Mr. South has also worked on several pipeline projects in Mississippi.  More recently Mr. South oversaw the mapping of the South Tall Timbers site.  He is also serving as Lithic Analyst for this project, and is training several Cultural Resources Research Assistants to aid him. 

From 2007 to present Mr. South has been responsible for monitoring all subsurface activities during the extensive rebuilding of the Louisiana National Guard Facilities at Jackson Barracks, Orleans Parish, and was a crewmember during the Phase III data recovery excavations at HANO’s Lafitte Housing project, also in Orleans Parish.