Cultural Resources Management
4G Consulting offers experience in archaeological, historical, and ethnographic projects in both public and private sectors, and in academic settings. Past performance by the company has included project management and direction, development of research designs and data recovery plans, budgeting and negotiating task orders under Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contracts, site inventories, site evaluations, and data recovery excavations. Specialized studies have included architectural documentation for historic register properties eligible for listing on Historic Registers, geoarchaeology, geophysical testing, ceramic analysis, osteological analysis, lithic analysis, soil analysis, geographic information systems design, and regional survey modeling, to name a few.
4G Consulting has experience working with numerous State Historic Preservation Offices (SHPOs), including Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Vermont, Rhode Island, California, Oklahoma, and Kansas. We have a thorough understanding of the relevant preservation statutes. We have evaluated numerous prehistoric and historic sites and properties for eligibility to the National Register of Historic Places.
Project Presentation
The information gathered during research or surveying must eventually be created into a final product. Report production, graphics, electronic media products, and all presentations linked to a project, are the responsibility of company owner Joanne Moyer Rust. Her degree in Multimedia Graphics allows her to design reports that are reader-friendly, visually interesting, and reflect the individual needs of our clients. Her vast experience in the use of word-processing programs, as well as graphic design software, qualifies her to oversee all aspects of report presentation: the coordination of text contributions; the text and graphic layout; the accurate digital rendering of maps and drawings; the scanning, optimization, and color-correction of digital and 35mm photographs; the digital printing as well as binding; and the production of electronic versions of all our reports onto CD for our clients benefit.
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Public Outreach
4G Consulting is especially dedicated to the promotion of knowledge concerning our country´s shared cultural heritage. Our graphic and multimedia design department can also offer expertise in the creation and implementation of web and electronic media design. We encourage our clients to consider new and better ways to get historical heritage information out to the public in a timely, interesting, and enjoyable fashion.
Ms. Rust's software expertise includes Illustrator, Photoshop, Flash, QuarkXPress, Adobe Acrobat, and Microsoft Office (Word, Access, Powerpoint, and Excel), HTML and CSS. Her graphics portfolio can be viewed at grfxdesignshop.com.
Consulting Services
Cultural Resource Management
- Archaeological survey, testing, and mitigation
- Ethnographical and historical research
- Federal, state, and local historic register evaluation
- Geographic Information System (GIS) support
- Photography, drawing, and mapping
- Artifact analysis, archaeometric dating and conservation support
- Manuals, guidelines, and publication support
- Cultural resource management, historic preservation and planning consultation
Compliance with Regulations
- NHPA, Sections 106 and 110
- NAGPRA, ARPA, AHPA, AIRFA, Antiquities Act of 1906, Executive Orders
- State and local historic preservation regulations
- DoD Instructions 4710.1 and 4715.3
- Army Regulation 200-4
Federal Laws Enforcing Historic Preservation
- The Antiquities Act of 1906
- The Historic Sites Act (1935)
- The National Historic Preservation Act, Sections 106 and 110 (1966)
- The Archeological and Historic Preservation Act (1974)
- American Indian Religious Freedom Act (1978)
- The Archeological Resources Protection Act (1979)
- The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (1990)
- Executive Order 13007 (1990)
Support Consultation
- Environmental Impact Statements
- Public Outreach
- Historic Landscapes
- National Register Evaluation
- Cultural Resource Management Plans
- Data Recovery Plans and Research Designs