William Self (archaeologist)
- William Self (archaeologist)
William Douglas Self (1951- ) is an American archaeologist.
William Self studied Anthropology initially in 1970 in England under Dr. Pamela Tudor-Craig, working that same year with Dr. Stanley West at the Suffolk Anglo-Saxon site of West Stow. He also studied at UCLA under Clement Meighan, and at University of Nevada, Reno, briefly serving as state archaeologist in the State Historic Preservation Office in Nevada before becoming the archaeologist for Bechtel, working worldwide. He has been a member of the Registry of Professional Archaeologists since 1980. Since 1988 he has served as President/CEO of WSA, Inc, a full-service cultural resource management consulting firm in the San Francisco Bay Area, Tucson, Arizona, and Austin, Texas. Mr. Self is currently serving on the Board of the American Cultural Resources Association.
Prior to his career as an archaeologist, Mr. Self studied guitar under Slim Edwards [Slim Edwards was a one-time country western performer, originally from Chicago, who became a guitar teacher in Torrance, Ca in the 1960s.] , along with Larry Carlton, and subsequently performed as a blues guitarist in several Los Angeles-based bands in the late 1960s ("The Cavaliers"; "Slow Loris", and the "Chuy Podgriguez Blues Band" with Tadg Galleran (original cast of Hair (musical)) and Richard Mikuls), once opening for Albert King. He subsequently played bluegrass mandolin from 1976-1980 in the Reno-based "Buzzard's Roost" with Joe Craven, performing locally, as well as at the Strawberry Bluegrass Festival.
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