PAUL G. CHACE, PH.D.

Principal Investigator

Archaeology Principal, Historian, Ethnologist

Paul G. Chace, Ph.D., is an executive leader and business consultant with broad experiences in cultural resources management, historic preservation, and environmental law (CEQA and NEPA). His extensive documentation and preservation efforts address prehistoric archaeology, historic properties, architectural heritage, and ethnology. His abilities working with diverse cultural partners, business clients, and agencies are widely known. Elected a Fellow of the American Anthropological Association, Chace also is listed in Marquis Who's Who in America. He long has been qualified on the Register of Professional Archaeologists (Roster #10372). His practice is widely known as a planning consultant, archaeologist, historian, and ethnologist. He has lectured and published widely on prehistory, history, Native Indians, and Chinese American heritage. As a California heritage promoter and activist, Chace’s appointments include postings with a California State Legislative Task Force, with CalTrans and CA Sesquicentennial committees, with the City of San Diego Old Town Planning Group and the City’s San Diego Presidio Park Council. He is a co-founder of the Presidio Heritage Trust of San Diego, promoting Spain's landmark Presidio citadel ruins, briefly California’s capital. He was elected President of the Society for California Archaeology and the Pacific Coast Archaeological Society. Chace has developed and successfully documented: (a) hundreds of Phase I arch surveys contracts for land developments, with (b) numerous Phase II arch site testing evaluations, (c) many Phase III arch site data mitigation programs, plus (d) grading monitoring programs. These projects have occurred from the Counties of San Diego and Riverside northward to Ventura County and beyond, to Lass Vegas. He has documented historic architecture in redevelopments zones and along roadways. He has published widely on these endeavors.

Education and Degrees:

Ph.D., Dec 1992, Anthro, Un of Calif, Riverside, dis: "Returning Thanks: Chinese Rites in an American Comm."

M.A., June 1992, Anthropology, University of California, Riverside.

M.A., 1974, History Museum Programs, State University of New York, Oneonta.

B.A., 1962, California State University, Long Beach; majors in anthropology, education, and mathematics.

Other post-graduate course work:

Univ of Redlands, Univ of Pennsylvania, San Diego State University.