Carmen Zepeda-Herman
Carmen Zepeda-Herman, MA, RPA
Senior Archaeologist
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Carmen Zepeda-Herman, MA, RPA, leads RECON’s cultural resources group. Carmen directs cultural resources field surveys, test excavations, data recovery excavations, and construction monitoring for cultural resource studies. She also conducts background research, maintains site records, and assembles crews for the completion of projects. Additionally, she has extensive experience in the southern California desert regions.
Carmen works within a range of regulatory and assessment frameworks, including the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA), the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP), the California Register of Historic Resources (CRHR), and the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).
Carmen earned an MA in Anthropology, is certified by the Register of Professional Archaeologists, and meets the Secretary of the Interior’s Professional Qualification Standards for Archaeology (36 CFR Part 61). She is also on the County of San Diego Approved CEQA Consultants List for Archaeological Resources, is a City of San Diego Qualified Archaeological Principal Investigator, is an Orange County Certified Consultant, and is on the County of Riverside Cultural Resources Consultants List. Carmen is a member of the Society for California Archaeology and the San Diego County Archaeological Society.