Principal Investigator
Alex Cox became interested in archaeology at the age of 16 and attended Baylor University where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology in 2017. While at Baylor, she excavated at a Late Prehistoric rock shelter in Central Texas and completed an undergraduate thesis on a Norwegian immigrant family and the remnants of their rock house in Bosque County, Texas. After graduating, Alex worked as a field technician at several archaeological projects in the East Texas area, including the historic Frost Town neighborhood in downtown Houston.
In early 2019, Alex joined ARC as a technician on the Bois d’Arc Lake project where she worked at multiple sites and was promoted to crew chief as the project grew to include several dozen field technicians. As fieldwork drew to a close, she later monitored the mechanical scraping and identified features across several sites.
Alex left ARC in 2021 and enrolled at Texas Tech University to pursue her master’s degree. She continued to be involved in fieldwork throughout this time, mapping a family cemetery, conducting Total Data Station mapping at Maya sites in Belize, and working at the Caprock Canyons State Park bison site. For her thesis, she conducted analysis of the historic ceramics collected at the José Francisco Ruiz site in San Antonio. She graduated in 2023 with a Master of Anthropology and a certificate in geographic information systems (GIS) and returned to ARC. Since then, she has worked as a project manager on several Phase I survey and monitoring projects and recently became a principal investigator.
Reach Alex via email at: alex@arc-digs.com