Education:
M.A., William & Mary
Phone:
757-221-2584
Email:
[[tfhiggins]]
About Tom
Mr. Higgins (RPA) has 40 years of experience as a project archaeologist. Though his educational background and research interests focus on historical archaeology, he has worked on a variety of prehistoric and historical sites in the context of cultural resource management projects in Virginia and surrounding states. He has served as a project archaeologist for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation's Department of Archaeological Research (1984-1988), the James River Institute for Archaeology, Inc. (2001-2012), and W&MCAR (1988-2001 and 2012-present). Mr. Higgins has supervised fieldwork and authored technical reports and other publications on survey-level, site evaluation, and data recovery projects, including sites of Archaic-stage camps, Woodland-stage villages, colonial farmsteads, plantation complexes, quarters for the enslaved, and Civil War battlefields and camps. Over the course of his career, Mr. Higgins been the lead author for more than 100 archaeological reports.
