Who Is Jamie Kouba & What's Her Role On The Show?

Jamie Kouba works full-time as a field archaeologist for Chronicle Heritage, an international cultural and heritage resource management consulting firm headquartered in Arizona that offers services ranging from preservation and tribal consultation to archaeology and paleontology. Before this, she was an archaeologist for Quality Enterprises, a national infrastructure contractor headquartered in Florida.

Kouba holds a master's degree in applied archaeology from the Indiana University of Pennsylvania, which she attended alongside her daughter. Although she entered the industry later than most, her interest in archaeology goes back to her childhood in the 1980s. "'Raiders of the Lost Ark' came out the same year I was born," she told CBS News Pittsburgh. "I don't remember the first time I watched it, I just know that from the first time I watched it, I was pretty much hooked."