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Project Archaeologist

Research Scientist Associate I
Clinton McKenzie first worked for the Center for Archaeological Research from 1988 -1992 and rejoined the staff in 2014. He currently serves as a project archaeologist. Mr. McKenzie has 38 years of experience in the prehistoric and historic archaeology of San Antonio and South Texas with an emphasis on historic materials, in particular Spanish Colonial. His work experience includes six years in the City of San Antonio Historic Preservation Office facilitating municipal and City Code required archaeological investigations. He has also operated as a private consultant for over twenty years providing field, archival and technical writing support for archeological investigations across Texas. He has been involved in avocational archaeology since 1978. His interests include isotopic analysis of domesticate faunal remains, historic and archival studies, Spanish Colonial material culture, indigenous responses and adaptations to the imposition of colonialism, and mortuary archaeology.

EDUCATION
      • In Progress
        MA, PhD Anthropology, University of Texas at San Antonio
      • 1995
        MS, Urban Administration, Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas
      • 1990
        BA, magna cum laude, Anthropology, University of Texas at San Antonio

         

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Mauldin, Raymond; Smith, Steven; Wigley, Sarah; Figueroa, Antonia; & McKenzie, Clinton
2015 Archaeological Investigations within San Pedro Springs Park (41BX19), San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas. UTSACAR Archaeological Report No. 443.

McKenzie, Clinton M. M.
2015 Investigations on the Site of Wohlfarth’s Mercantile and the Search for the Arocha Acequia San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas. UTSACAR Archaeological Survey Report No.442.

McKenzie, Clinton M. M.
2015 Monitoring of Sandstone Stair Removal at the San Jose Grist Mill, San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas. UTSACAR Archaeological Technical Report No.42.

McKenzie, Clinton M. M.
2014 After the Fact Investigations at the Intersection of South Flores and West Sheridan San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas. UTSACAR Archaeological Survey Report No.441.

Watson Pfieffer, Maria & McKenzie, Clinton M. M.
2014 National Register Nomination for Dublin Plantation, Guadalupe County, Texas

Molineu, Douglas H., McKenzie, Clinton M. M. et al
2004 Archeological Investigations in the Eastern Two Thirds of Blocks 119 and 120 for the City of Houston’s Aveñida de las Americas Project, Harris County, Texas. South Texas Archeological Research Services, LLC, Report of Investigations 2. Bulverde, Texas.

Cox, I. Waynne, McKenzie, Clinton M. M., et al
1990 Investigations at the Vollrath Blacksmith Shop (41BX786), San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas. UTSACAR Archaeological Survey Report No. 191.

McKenzie, Clinton M. M. (1995), Construction Monitoring on the Plaza de Armas – San Antonio City Hall Irrigation Project, San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas. St. Mary’s University Archaeology Program.

PRESENTATIONS
Southern Texas Archaeological Association. Analysis of Elizabethan Artifacts Recovered on the Texas Coast as Evidence of David Ingram's 1569 Transect of North America. April 2016

COLFA Research Conference. Analysis of Elizabethan Artifacts Recovered on the Texas Coast as Evidence of David Ingram's 1569 Transect of North America. March 2016.

Travis County Archaeological Society presentation – The Archaeology of the Second Site of Presidio de Bexar, San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas. January 2016

Second Annual Witte Museum Archaeology Symposium. The Archaeology of the Second Site of Presidio de Bexar. October 2015.

San Antonio Historical Association. Isotopic Analysis of domesticated faunal remains from Rancho de las Cabras and their potential to demonstrate economics and landscape change as a result of Spanish Colonial pastoralism. September 2015.

San Antonio Missions National Historic Park Annual Docents Dinner. The Archaeology of Rancho de las Cabras, Wilson County, Texas. September 2015

Travis County Archaeological Society presentation – Recent Discoveries and Previous Archaeology in the Lower Olmos Creek Basin and Upper San Antonio River Basin, Bexar County, Texas , February 2015.

Witte Museum Symposium presentation– The History of Archaeological Investigations in Brackenridge Park and the Surrounding Area, October 2014.

Texas Archaeological Society Annual Meeting presentation – The History of Prehistoric Archaeological Investigations in the Lower Olmos Creek Basin and Upper San Antonio River Basin, Bexar County, Texas , October 2014.

AWARDS
2006-2007
Norman B. Flaigg Certificate of Outstanding Performance , Texas Historical Commission
2010
Robert F. Heizer Award for Outstanding Contributions to 2014, South Texas Archaeology, STAA
2014
Hidalgo de San Antonio de Bexar, Bexar County Commissioners Court

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Southern Texas Archaeological Association 1978 to present
Texas Archeology Society 1981, intermittently, to present
Texas Archaeological Stewardship Network, 2005 to present
Society for Historical Archaeology 2015