He holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from Brown University, and has devoted his career to the study of Native American archaeological sites in New England. He is an executive board member of the Monadnock Institute of Nature, Place and Culture at Franklin Pierce, where he founded and directs the Monadnock Archaeological Project, is a past president of the New Hampshire Archeological Society, and was recently appointed by New Hampshire Governor John Lynch to the newly-created New Hampshire Commission on Native American Affairs.