Jim Shearer:
CLASS OF 1971
Irvington High SchoolClass of 1971
Fremont, CA
Antioch Community High SchoolClass of 1969
Antioch, IL
Jim's Story
Currently I am an Archaeologist for the United States Department of Interior. I worked for several years for a government contractor in Utah.
I decided to go back to school. I earned a Bachelor of Science Degree, Interdisciplinary Studies Emphasis: Archaeology and Geographic Information Systems. I continued my education and received a Master of Science Degree in Anthropology.
I conducted research for two years in the Country of Nepal for my Master of Science Degree working with the traditional healers and witches.
PRESENTATIONS/PUBLICATIONS
âPerceptions of Reality: Comparisons in Shamanism, Psychiatry, and Modern Medicine.â Shearer, James, Presentation at the Utah State University Student Showcase Conference. Logan, Utah. April 1999.
âA Mile in My Shoes: Racial Discrimination at Utah State University.â Shearer, James. Presentation at the Utah State University, Department of Anthropology and Social Work Brown Bag Series. Logan Utah, May 2000.
âThe Peoples and Cultures of Central and Eastern Nepal.â Shearer, James. Presentation at the Utah State University Student Showcase Conference. Logan, Utah, April 2001.
âThe Mountain Meadows Massacre.â Shearer, James,Presentation at the Utah State University Student Showcase Conference. Logan, Utah, April 2001.
âThe Mother Weeps and the Lion Roars: The Importance of Protecting Nepalese Folkloreâ. Shearer, James, Presented to The Center for Nepalese and Asian Studies at Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu Nepal, May 2002.
âWalking Among the Living, the Dead, and the Dying of Nepal: Disease, Beauty, and Death, in the Mountain Kingdom of Nepalâ. Shearer, James. Presented to the State of Utah, Department of Health, June, 2002.
âConversing with the Ghosts of the Himalaya: Healing, Witchcraft, and Magic of Nepalâ. Shearer, James. Masterâs Thesis, Utah State University. Utah State University, Logan, Utah. Copyright, 2002.
âHealth and Disease in Nepalâ Shearer, James. The appalling conditions of hospital and medical clinics in Kathmandu, Nepal, and the role they play in the spread of infectious disease. Presented to the Utah State Health Department, May 2002.
âInside Manâ Preservation Magazine, Article related to the Archaeological Resource Protection Act, January 2010.
âRock Features in the Mojave Desert. âShearer, James. A Fresh Look At Locations and Functionsâ Presented at the Society for California 2010 Annual Meeting, March 2010.
Rock features have been recorded at numerous locations in the Mojave Desert since the1920s and multiple speculations have been presented regarding their function. Recently eight sites exhibiting multiple rock features have been recorded within the Cady Mountain region east of Barstow. This desert phenomenon is under-studied and only loosely interpreted. This paper will present possible functions and time frames while offering insights into possible human behavior represented on a landscape level and the apparent density of these features...Expand for more
in the Cady Mountain region. Recognizing this phenomenon in the field and the methodologies for recording these features will also be discussed.
Western Mojave Desert; Antiquity, Use and Distribution Vargas, Benjamin, Gold, Alan, Shearer, Jim. âPiles of Rock: Rock Cluster Features in the.â Presented at the Society for California 2010 Annual Meeting, March 2011.
Recent energy-related projects throughout the western Mojave Desert have seen large areas
surveyed for cultural resources. Research from many of these surveys has identified rock-cluster
features at many sites, sometimes in large numbers. Alternative hypotheses have been proposed
relating the function of these features to toolstone heat treatment or the processing of small
game and/or plants and seeds. In this paper, we discuss the vast body of literature relating to
these feature types and present new data from recent studies in the western Mojave Desert
region including a comparative examination of their attributes and spatial distributions.
âNative Mazes and Mechanical Scrapes in the Mojave Desertâ. Lange, Fred, McCarthy, Daniel, Shearer, James.
Rows of pebbles on cleared desert surfaces (mazes) were created by Native American peoples. Mechanical scraper scars appear to be mazes, but are not. The Topock maze and a recently recorded Topock-like maze near 29 Palms, and the Afton and Hector scraper scars are highlighted here to develop criteria for distinguishing features of Native American origin from those that were created by late 19th/early 20th century railroad and highway constructions. Recent assertions that Afton Canyon mechanical scraper scars might be utilized to challenge the Native American origin of the Topock Maze, and by extension the 29 Palms maze, are rejected
When Worlds Collide. Society of California Archaeology, Berkeley CA 2013. Cisneros, Charles, Shearer, James.
The concept of a sacred geography has always been important to the indigenous cultures of the
Mojave Desert. From the earliest times the people of this region have attributed special significance to geographic features, which play important roles in their religious and cultural practices. Today, a large number of indigenous cultures in the region believe that their religious and cultural practices are in danger from alternative energy projects that threaten to alter the landscape. This paper will present some of the current technological developments in the Mojave Desert and their impact on the landscape, and investigate how they in turn affect the traditional ways of life of the indigenous people.
The Long and Winding Road: Cultural Resources and the West Mojave Travel Management Plan. Ashley A. Blythe, Margaret Margosian, and James Shearer. Presented at the Society for California Annual Meeting, March 2015.
Identifying Traces of the Old Spanish Trail. Society for Archaeology Conference, Redding, CA March 2015. Courtney Carlson and James Shearer. Presented at the Society for California Annual Meeting, March 2015.
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