Sachiko Sakai

Sachiko Sakai

Title: Assistant Professor
Email: Sachiko.Sakai@csulb.edu
Phone: (562) 985-1916
Office: F05-230
 

Education History

Ph.D. Department of Anthropology, UCSB, 2014
M.A. in Anthropology, CSULB, 2001
B.A. in History, Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan, 1989
 

CourseS Taught

  • ANTH140: Pyramids, Tombs and Treasure: Introduction to Archaeology
  • ATNH313: World Prehistory
  • ANTH405: Principles of Archaeology
  • ANTH449: Prehistoric Culture of North America
  • ANTH450: Archaeological Field Research
  • ANTH473: Archaeology of California
  • ANTH487: Cultural Resource Management

 

Research Focus and Teaching Specialties

Archaeology of the Southwestern US; Cultural resource management; Virgin Ancestral pueblo prehistory; Luminescence dating; Archaeometry; Chemical compositional analysis of artifacts; Ceramic analysis; Evolutional archaeology; Gabrielino/Tongva archaeology; Small-scale farmer adaptations in marginal environments; Prehistoric trading.

 

Selected Publications

Edited Issue in the journal

 Harry, Karen, G., and Sachiko Sakai

2019 Special issue “New Findings from the Far Western Puebloan Region: Papers in Honor of Margaret Lyneis”. The Kiva Vol 85, NO.4. December.

 Journal articles/books/report

Neff, Hector, Marx Navarro and Sachiko Sakai,

2023     A Mesoamerican Tradeware Revisited: Mexican Influences in the Origins and Evolution of Plumbate Pottery in When East Meets West. Chichen Itza, Tula, and the Postclassic Mesoamerican World, BAR International Series 3134 edited by Travis W. Stanton, Karl A. Taube, Jeremy D. Coltman, and Nelda I. Marengo Camacho, pp693-723. BAR publishing.

Harry, Karen, G., and Sachiko Sakai

2022       Patterns of Ceramic Production and Distribution in Western Basketmaker Beginnings: The Jackson Flat Reservoir Project, edited by Heidi Roberts, Richard V. N. Ahlstrom, Pp.170-176. University of Utah Press.

Harry, Karen G., and Sachiko Sakai

2022      Using Luminescence Dating to Address the Chronology and Cultural Affiliation of Brownware Ceramics in the Virgin Branch Puebloan Region. In Western Ceramic Traditions Prehistoric and Historic Native American Ceramics of the Western U.S., edited by Suzanne Griset. The University of Utah Anthropological Papers Number 135. Pp57-66. University of Utah Press.

Sakai, Sachiko

2021       Changes in the Sources of Olivine-Tempered Ceramics and Social Interaction Patterns in the Virgin Branch Region of the American Southwest. Sundai Shigaku Vol.173, Meiji University, Tokyo Japan: 103-134 (Japanese).

Sakai, Sachiko

2019       Changes in the Sources of Olivine-Tempered Ceramics and Social Interaction Patterns in the Virgin Branch Region. In special issue “New Findings from the Far Western Puebloan Region: Papers in Honor of Margaret Lyneis” edited by Karen Harry and Sachiko Sakai. The Kiva Vol 85, No.4 December: 313-330.

Harry, Karen, James Allison, and Sachiko Sakai

2019     New Findings from the Far Western Puebloan Region: Papers in Honor of Margaret Lyneis. In special issue “New Findings from the Far Western Puebloan Region: Papers in Honor of Margaret Lyneis” edited by Karen Harry and Sachiko Sakai. The Kiva Vol 85, No.4 December: 281-288.

Roberts, Heidi, Janet Hagopian, Richard V.N. Ahlstrom, and Sachiko Sakai (2019)

2019     Margaret Lyneis and the Pottery Traditions Of Corn Creek And AshMeadows, Southern Nevada. In special issue “New Findings from the Far Western Puebloan Region: Papers in Honor of Margaret Lyneis” edited by Karen Harry and Sachiko Sakai. The Kiva Vol 85, No.4 December: 370-389.

Cook, Robert A., Sachiko Sakai and Robert A. Genheimer

2017       Evaluating the utility of archaeological index fossils: Optically-stimulated luminescence dating of Fort Ancient Pottery at the Hahn Site. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Volume 15, October 2017: 132-137.

Neff, Hector, Scott J. Bigney, Sachiko Sakai, Paul R. Burger, Timothy Garfin, Richard G. George, Brendan J. Culleton, and Douglas Kennett

2016      Characterization of Archaeological Sediments Using Fourier Transform Infrared (FT-IR) and Portable X-ray Fluorescence (pXRF): An Application to Formative Period Pyro-Industrial Site in Pacific Coastal Southern Chiapas, Mexico. Journal of Applied Spectroscopy 70(1): 110-127.

Vaughn, Kevin J., Jelmer W. Eerkens, Carl Lipo, Sachiko Sakai, and Katherine Schreiber

2014      It’s About Time? Testing the Dawson Ceramic Seriation Using Luminescence Dating, Southern Nazca Region, Peru.  Latin American Antiquity Volume 25, Number 4, December 2014, pp. 449-461(13)

Sakai, Sachiko

2014      Explaining Change in Production and Distribution of Olivine-Tempered Ceramics in the Arizona Strip and Adjacent Areas in the American Southwest. Dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of California Santa Barbara.

Wittke, James H., James C. Weaver, Ted E. Bunch, James P. Kennett, Douglas J. Kennett, Andrew M. T. Moore, Gordon C. Hillman, Kenneth B. Tankersley, Albert C. Goodyear, Christopher R. Moore, I. Randolph Daniel, Jr., Jack H. Ray, Neal H. Lopinot, David Ferrado, Isabel Israde-Alcántara, James L., Bischoff,  Paul S. DeCarli, Robert E. Hermes, Johan B. Kloosterman,  Zsolt Revay, George A. Howard, David R. Kimbel, Gunther Kletetschka,  Ladislav Nabelek, Carl P. Lipo, Sachiko Sakai, Allen West, and Richard B. Firestone

2013     Evidence for deposition of 10 million tonnes of impact spherules across four continents 12,800 years ago.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) June 4, 2013, vol. 110 no. 23 E2088-E2097

Bunch, Ted E., Robert E. Hermes, Andrew M. T. Moore, Douglas J. Kennett, James C. Weaver, James H. Wittke, Paul S. DeCarli, James. L. Bischoff, Gorgon. C. Hillman, George A. Howard, David R. Kimbel, Gunter Kletetschka, Carl P. Lipo, Sachiko Sakai, Zsolt Revay,  Allen West, Richard B. Firestone, and James P. Kennett

2012     Very high-temperature impact melt products as evidence for cosmic airbursts and impacts 12,900 years ago.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS)  July 10, 2012 vol. 109 no. 28 E1903-E1912.

Sakai, Sakai

2011     Investigation of Clay Sources for Production of Olivine-tempered ceramics in the Arizona Strip and Adjacent Areas in the American Southwest. In Proceedings of the 2009 Three Corners Conference, edited by M. Slaughter, S. E. Daron, and Patricia A. Hicks. Nevada Archaeological Association Meetings, Las Vegas, NV, pp. 141-158.

2009     Explaining Change in Production and Distribution Pattern of Olivine Ceramics in the Arizona Strip and Adjacent Areas in the American Southwest. In Proceedings of the 2007 Three Corners Conference, edited by M. Slaughter, S. Daron, E Jansen, and K. Sprowl. Nevada Archaeological Association Meetings, Las Vegas, NV, pp 227-248.

Larson, Daniel. O., Sachiko Sakai, and Hector Neff

2005     LA-ICP-MS as a Bulk Chemical Characterization Technique: Comparison of LA-ICP-MS, MD-ICP-MS, and INAA Data on Virgin Branch Anasazi Ceramics. In Laser Ablation ICP-MS in Archaeological Research, edited by R. J. Speakman and H. Neff, pp. 94–103. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.

Kennett, Douglas J., Sachiko Sakai, Hector Neff, Richard Gossett, and Daniel O. Larson

2002     Compositional Characterization of Prehistoric Ceramics: A New Approach   Journal of Archaeological Science 29, pp. 443–455.

Sakai, Sachiko

2001     Explaining Changes in Subsistence Strategies and Settlement Patterns among the Virgin Branch Anasazi though Ceramic Provenance Study Using Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry. M. A. thesis, Department of Anthropology, California State University, Long Beach.

Unpublished Report

Sakai, Sachiko

2019-2022 Preliminary Field Report on Mt. Trumbull Prehistory Excavation Project to Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument. Submitted to the Bureau of Land Management, St. George, Utah.

2020       Excavation for Reburial Project Final Report CA-LAN-234. Unpublished Report on file at California State University, Long Beach, CA.

2010–2018 Field Report on Mt. Trumbull Prehistory Project to Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument. Submitted to the Bureau of Land Management, St. George, Utah.

 

ARCHAEOLOGICAL WORKS (selected)

 2010–Present    Principal investigator, Mt. Trumbull Prehistory Project for Grand Canyon Parashant National Monument.

2014-Present     Luminescence Lab Manager, IIRMES, CSULB.

2002–Present    Lab researcher in compositional analysis, IIRMES, CSULB.

2016-Present     Student volunteer/internship with NAGPRA collection, collaborating with NAGPRA coordinator Cindi Alvitre, CSULB American Indian Studies.

2019                      Principal investigator, Geophysical Project for Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument

2016                       CA-LAN-234 (Puvungna) Reburial Excavation Field Director, coordinated with CSULB’s NAGPRA committee.

2016                       Field director assistant, La Blanca geophysical survey project, Guatemala.

2016                       Field director assistant, the Acahualinca Footprints project, Nicaragua

2015                       Field and lab assistant, Proyecto Arqueológico Rio Amarillo, Copan, Honduras.

2014-2015           Field Co-director, Soconusco Coast Archaeological Project (Proyecto Arqueológico Costa del Soconusco), Chiapas, Mexico.

2013&14              Field and lab assistant, Soconusco Coast Archaeological Project (Proyecto Arqueológico Costa del Soconusco), Chiapas, Mexico.

2003–2008          Project assistant, Mt. Trumbull Prehistory Project.

2010                       Field crew chief for Mt. Trumbull survey, Desert Research Institute (DRI)

2010                      Field crew, geophysical survey and p-XRF analysis in El Salvador and Guatemala, CSULB.

2008 & 09           Field crew member, geophysical survey and p-XRF analysis at El Baul, Guatemala, CSULB.

2004–2014           Luminescence Lab Researcher, IIRMES, CSULB.

2004                      Field crew member, geophysical survey in southeast Missouri, CSULB.

2002–2003         Project assistant, Geoscience Diversity Enhancement Program, (G-Dep) entailing geophysical survey on Santa Cruz Island, CSULB and UCSB.

2002                      Field crew member, Shivwits Plateau survey, Lake Mead National                                              Recreation Area.

2001                      Field crew member, geophysical survey, Valencia, Spain, Arizona State University and CSULB.       

2000                      Field crew member, Arroyo Seco 3 Project in northern Mexico (excavation, survey), University of New Mexico.

2000                     Field crew member, tree-ring and 14C sample collection project at Natural Bridge National Monument in Utah, National Park Service.

1999–2002        Laboratory assistant, ICP-MS, CSULB.

1998–1999         Field assistant, geophysical survey and excavation at Navan Fort, Northern Ireland, CSULB.

1998                     Field crew member, geophysical survey and excavation, Santa Barbara Presidio project.

1997                     Field crew member, geophysical survey Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello cemetery project and settlement area survey, University of Virginia and CSULB.

 

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION MEMBERSHIPS

  • Society for American Archaeology (SAA)
  • The Register of Professional Archaeologists (PRA)
  • American Anthropological Association (AAA)
  • Society for California Archaeology (SCA)
  • World Archaeological Congress
  • Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society
  • Nevada Archaeological Association
  • Society for Archaeological Science
  • Archaeological Institute of America
  • Japanese Archaeological Association