Stephen J. Yerka

Stephen J. Yerka 
PhD Student 
University of Tennessee

University of Tennessee PhD student, Stephen J. Yerka, MA, RPA, collaborates on all technical aspects of the DINAA project. He is Historic Preservation Specialist at the Tribal Historic Preservation Office of the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indian. He is also co-director of the Paleoindian Database of the Americas (PIDBA) and is a member of Open Context’s editorial board. A former GIS/IT manager for the Tennessee Archaeology Laboratory, Steve worked on the first phase of DINAA and has published in American archaeology and informatics.