Plateau Archaeological Investigations, LLC conducts archaeological and cultural resource contracting and consulting services in eastern Washington, north Idaho, and eastern Oregon. Our clients include Federal and State agencies, counties, municipalities, utilities, engineering firms, and private organizations. By knowing and understanding the region we work in and the concerns of regional interested parties, we are able to focus our efforts toward providing solutions to specific concerns. Our reports satisfy the requirements of any funding agencies, state departments or agencies, and any tribal entities who may comment.

• Section 106 and E.O. 05-05 compliance
• SEPA and NEPA surveys
• HABS/HAER reports
• Project consultation
• Construction monitoring
• Archaeological and cultural resources surveys
• Site testing and evaluations
• Underwater archaeological services
• Archival research and state file review
• Historic research and background reviews
• Project oversight, management, and review
• Contextual report preparation
• Artifact identification and analyses

Cultural resources are widely accepted as the physical environment - both built and natural - having cultural value to a sociocultural group (King 1998). As one might imagine, this encompasses a myriad of resources and may include archaeological sites, buildings, bridges, historical documents, and traditional cultural properties.

The birth of cultural resource management (CRM) in the 1970s rose from the desire to preserve the past for the future. Cultural resource management thus manages places of archaeological, architectural, historical, and cultural interest and in doing so to consider such places in compliance with environmental and historic preservation laws.

Federal laws and regulations regarding cultural resources can be daunting to a project planner. The value of a cultural resource management firm becomes apparent when solutions to their cultural resource compliance needs are efficiently and effectively completed.

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