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	Scott J. Demel, Ph.D. Currently, I am the Head of Collections Management for the Department of Anthropology. In my previous position as the Collection Project Coordinator for Academic Affairs at The Field Museum, I was in charge of helping design the new underground storage and research facility, known as the Collections Resource Center (CRC), and I was responsible for coordinating the move of some 2 million objects and specimens from the Anthropology, Geology and Zoology departments. I have seen the majority of the museum’s collections that are not on display in the exhibitions (only about 2% of the museum’s collection are actually on exhibition). In addition to this awesome responsibility, I am also the archaeologist in charge of conducting salvage archaeology for the museum’s construction projects. The Museum is located on 35 feet of landfill deposited during the early 1900’s, and as ground was excavated for the installation of the CRC, numerous artifacts were recovered from the landfill. These are currently on display on the museum’s ground floor in an exhibition entitled “Trash to Treasure: Salvage Archaeology in The Field Museum’s Backyard.” Prior to my position with The Field Museum, I have worked in archaeology throughout the Great Lakes Region. I earned an MA from the University of Illinois-Chicago and in 2000, my Ph. D. in Archaeology at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee. My dissertation work focused on remnant archaic settlements along the western coast of Lake Michigan. Some of my other research interests include: the Archaic period, the peopling of the Americas, Mississippian society, Great Lakes prehistory, early Chicago history, marine archaeology, and lithic analysis. Meet the team>>